A WOMAN who suffers with extreme sleepwalking has had to sleep in her living room for two years so she doesn't fall down the stairs. Angela Caulfield, 53, from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria , has suffered with the problem for most of her adult life. She has still yet to fully recover from an incident in March 2022 in which she fractured her hip and her fibula (leg bone).
Her condition, diagnosed officially as non rapid eye movement (NREM) parasomnia , has seen her make dinner, walk up and down a plane aisle, and even drink kitchen cleaner - all while sleepwalking . She's even ordered £1,400 worth of plants from an online shop while fast asleep . It has led to numerous injuries, including a broken hip, seven fractured ribs, two fractures in her spine, three fractures in her pelvis, and a shattered wrist.
This, along with other health problems including type 1 diabetes , an underactive thyroid , and osteoarthritis , have left her "totally debilitated." Angela said: "It's such a strange condition to have but it has caused me lots of issues. "I think it's time to wear a body cam and actually see what I get up to.
" One of her most dramatic incidents occurred in March 2022 when she caught herself falling to the kitchen floor at 2am. "My brother was staying with me, so he helped me," she said. "I reached out to the pan cupboard and was knocking the hell out of the pans.
"Paramedics had to put me on a big board, and I was in Furness General Hospital for three weeks." It turned out Ange.
