Gráinne has to endure a cruel waiting game

Catherine Shanahan says HSE red tape is delaying one woman’s vital treatment

Gráinne O’Connor occasionally experiences a rising feeling in her torso which she likens to “something moving up through me”.

During these moments, she experiences a mild sense of fear, before losing awareness. Those who have observed her say she goes into behavourial arrest (temporary total body-arrest of movement) and remains mute with eyes open.