Woman, 23, Begs To Die After Insect Bite Leaves Her Bed-Ridden For 11 Years

A 23-year-old woman who has been bed-ridden for 11 years has told her family she wants to die in a suicide assisted clinic in Switzerland.Kirsty Keep contracted lupus after she was bitten by a bug in her back garden in Maidstone, Kent when she was 12 years old.
Her mother says Kirsty has asked her to help her end her life by taking her to a Swiss clinic.
Because of her condition, her immune system attacks healthy cells, tissue and organs.
She spent three weeks in hospital after the incident as the bite grew to the side of a hand. By the age of 16, her face was paralysed by Bell’s palsy.
Kirsty also started having seizures 18 months ago.
Speaking from her hospital bed, Kirsty said: “My bones feel like they’re being snapped and my muscles ripped.
“It feels like there’s someone inside me pulling my insides.”
Her mother Theresa believes she was bitten by a tick and that she may also be suffering from the bacterial infection Lyme disease.
However, tests for Lyme disease have come back negative, so Kirsty’s family are looking at having alternative tests.