Andrea Gunning

And if you do try to get up, you're going to pass out.

I remember getting out of bed and I went in the shower.

I kind of felt like I was underwater or something.

I felt such a heaviness.

You know, you see dots, started to feel dots, and I sat down with the shower still on and, like, reached up, pushed the shower off, crawled back to my bed.

I mean, I must have slept for another six hours or something.

She had that same feeling the morning of her kids' picture day.

And I remember waking up and, again, feeling like I was underwater, but trying to make my way to my kids' rooms, which was down a hallway.

And I ended up passing out, and I had hit my head against something.

She was bleeding so bad, she had to get staples in her head.

Whatever was wrong with her, it was getting worse.

Other strange symptoms kept popping up.

I was picking my skin so bad that I had people at work telling me like, why are you picking your face?

I could hear my stomach gurgling all the time, like making loud noises.

And just, I always had so much nervous energy.

people at work were taking notice.

Here's Vera, one of her coworkers from Child Protective Services.

Over the two years this had been going on, Saskia did all that she could to get well.

She changed her diet, got an exercise routine, tried tons of different medications.

She saw specialists and sought out experimental treatments.