An Illinois woman described how a terrible sports injury made her life miserable and nearly led to her being “internally decapitated.”
In 2005, Megan King was just 16 years old when she leaped to catch a soccer ball in gym class and crashed to the ground, pulling the muscle off both shoulder blades and injuring her right ankle and spine.
The adolescent was on crutches for over a year. Her symptoms didn’t go away; they got worse. King’s shoulder blades hurt in excruciating pain as her muscles tore and her joints deteriorated.
She had 22 surgeries on her shoulders and shoulder blades alone over the years, and doctors were baffled as to why her body was unable to recover.
In 2015, King finally received a diagnosis of hypermobile Ehler’s-Danlos syndrome (hEDS), a hereditary condition that causes joint instability by impairing the proper formation of collagen, a vital component of joints.
King was put with a Halo brace, a cruel device that screws straight into the skull to prevent neck movement, after her neck dislocated a year later.
