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Surgeons removed part of her left frontal lobe in June in a bid to stop the affliction, but it didn’t work and baffled medics reckon the mum will have the condition forever.<\/p>\n
Zoe – who has been unable to work for six months because of her affliction – said: “I don’t dislike Ne-Yo or his music, it just dislikes me unfortunately.<\/p>\n
“I’ll be walking around the supermarket doing my food shopping and I have to put my earphones in to listen to my own music just in case it comes on.<\/p>\n
“It’s the same with most shops.\u00a0 I have to walk in with my ear phones in at first just to make sure they don’t have Ne-Yo on.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “If he ever releases a greatest hits album it’s going to be a nightmare.<\/p>\n “Whenever I hear the first few beats of the song I have to drop whatever I am doing and run.<\/p>\n “People might think it is funny – and I can laugh at it myself – but it has taken over my life.\u00a0 It’s ruined my life.”<\/p>\n Zoe, from Retford, Nottinghamshire, had her first seizure on New Year’s Day in 2006 after a long period of sickness and doctors put it down to tiredness and stress.<\/p>\n But when her seizures increased to six a DAY her GP booked her in for a brain test and she was diagnosed with epilepsy in 2008.<\/p>\n It wasn’t until she heard Ne-Yo’s first big hit, ‘Give Me Everything’ featuring Pitbull – which topped the charts in May 2011 – that she had her first music-induced seizure.<\/p>\n “It took me a while to realise that they were being triggered by his songs, and I think it wasn’t until I had heard it for about the 15th time that it finally twigged what was going on,” said Zoe, who has an eight year old daughter Abigail.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “The song was really popular and I went to my consultant and I said ‘I know this sounds extremely bizarre, but every time I hear this song I have a seizure’.<\/p>\n “He said it was fascinating and that he had never heard anything like it, and I said that while it might be fascinating, I was really struggling – the song was everywhere at the time.”<\/p>\n She was referred to Sheffield’s Royal Hallamshire Hospital where doctors played her Ne-Yo songs and were amazed when they induced a seizure.<\/p>\n Her doctors notes from the time say: “We recognised a few musicogenic seizures arising from the right temporal lobe stimulated by songs sung by Neyo.”<\/p>\n Another added: “During her admission she was listening to the radio on [her] iPhone when a specific song came on the radio that triggers her fits (Pitbull Ne-Yo – Tonight).<\/p>\n “She called for assistance at this point and she was noted to be shaking and looking rather anxious and acting a bit confused.<\/p>\n “The following day we deliberately played the song and exactly the same symptoms arose.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The music attacks got more difficult to manage as the singer became more popular with every song he released, including top ten hits ‘Let’s Go’ and ‘Turn Around’ in 2012.<\/p>\n The 15 second seizures, which happen in her right temporal lobe, leave her ‘staring blankly’ and after they pass she will vomit, be very thirsty and feel extremely sleepy.<\/p>\n In June this year Zoe endured a six-hour long operation to remove a huge chunk of her left temporal lobe where doctors thought all her seizures may originate.<\/p>\n But while the symptoms of her epilepsy have reduced, she still has a fit every time she hears Ne-Yo’s voice.<\/p>\n She said a recent holiday to Majorca – just after the singer released his song Play Hard with David Guetta – was a ‘nightmare’ with the song playing in every bar.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “I have had to go up to DJs in places and say ‘look can you not play Ne-Yo’ and they just look at me like I’m an alien,” said Zoe.<\/p>\n “[Doctors] are saying it could possibly be something in the tone of his voice, something like that, but it doesn’t happen when I hear Usher, or people like him who have a very similar sound.\u00a0 It is only him, only Ne-Yo.”<\/p>\n “Our holiday this year to Majorca was a nightmare.\u00a0 Honestly it was like being at a Ne-Yo concert – the song was everywhere.<\/p>\n “I had to stay in the hotel room for most of the holiday because it got so bad.”<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: Mirror UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A mum who suffers crippling seizures every time she hears pop star Ne-Yo’s music has undergone surgery to have part of her brain removed. Fed-up Zoe Fennessy, 26, has an epileptic seizure within seconds of hearing the chart-topper’s vocals, making her freeze, vomit and unable to react to the world around her. The healthcare assistant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":64699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[7],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Zoe](\"http:\/\/i2.mirror.co.uk\/incoming\/article4613455.ece\/alternates\/s615\/Zoe-Fennessy.jpg\" "\\"Distraught:")
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