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...trouble!" exclaimed a former Mayo Clinic secretary as she read an article on sleep seizures. Her chance observation led the clinic's doctors to a research gold mine. Her whole family, for four and possibly five generations, has been studded with men and women who kept falling asleep at meals, on the job, on Army guard duty, while playing cards-and, distressingly often, at the wheel...
...Daly and Robert E. Yoss. said that she had been "fighting sleep all of my life." She could stay awake only while active ("If I sit down, I'm lost"), so she had to walk around the room all the time when she had guests. She fell asleep while playing cards. The diagnosis was narcolepsy (from the Greek narke, stupor, and lepsis, seizure). Relatively rare, its cause unknown, narcolepsy was not even known to run in families until the Mayo Clinic compiled records on more than 200 cases...
...Movies & Church. Most of the secretary's family were in Minnesota, close around Rochester and accessible for interviews. The trail led back to the first patient's grandfather, a farmer. His daughters remembered him as a "very sleepy person who always fell asleep when he sat down." His wife was normal. So were his son and younger daughter. But his elder daughter, 67, complained of severe drowsiness and episodes of sleep many times a day for at least 40 years. How she managed was a mystery because she had 16 children. She consistently fell asleep at movies, even...
...House of Intellect. When she first met Jean-Paul Sartre, he was a fellow student at the Sorbonne. "Except when he's asleep. Sartre thinks all the time!" a friend told Simone. Petrified, she entered Sartre's lair for a day-long talkathon on her metaphysical treatise. The Concept in Leibnitz. Simone confided to her diary, "He's a marvelous trainer of intellects." Before long, they were playing pinball machines together, going to un-adult westerns, and scaling the roofs over the student dens, with the great intellect-trainer booming out Ol' Man River...
...doors close on the posies. It takes him forever to figure out on which side of the train the doors will open next, and when he does, he is sandbagged by a horde of inrushing travelers. By the time the train clears and he can escape, he has fallen asleep on his feet...