When doctors asked how it started, all Donna Murphy could remember was that she went out to have a morning smoke in her pickup truck and that sheâ??d had a strange headache. It was around 9 — early enough to catch another hour or two of sleep before she had to get to her job captioning phone calls for the deaf and hard of hearing. So she went back to bed. Suddenly, she had to go to the bathroom again. Only she couldnâ??t get up. She couldnâ??t even roll her body from one side to the other.
Murphy was puzzled. She was 49 and had been in fine health. “Why am I too weak to get out of bed?” she remembers thinking.