Description
The doctors said I had unconfirmed haemophilia. People said I was clumsy. a clown, an accident waiting to happen. They were wrong. I have endured a multiplicity of injuries including: 200 stitches; a broken femur; broken bones in my feet; 3 sprained ankles; several dislocated kneecaps; ruptured knee ligaments; a broken scaphoid; traumatic bruising to my shin and a dislocated shoulder.
These are the presents that EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME bestowed upon me. At fifty eight years of age I had had enough. I lay on the floor in my garage with the fallen ladder as my companion listening to the siren of an approaching ambulance. I thought to myself "I have to find a way to make all this stop. If I survive"..
Author: Philip Howard
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 03/05/2015
Pages: 366
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.76d
ISBN13: 9781506090832
ISBN10: 1506090834
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | People with Disabilities
These are the presents that EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME bestowed upon me. At fifty eight years of age I had had enough. I lay on the floor in my garage with the fallen ladder as my companion listening to the siren of an approaching ambulance. I thought to myself "I have to find a way to make all this stop. If I survive"..
Author: Philip Howard
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 03/05/2015
Pages: 366
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.76d
ISBN13: 9781506090832
ISBN10: 1506090834
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | People with Disabilities
About the Author
Philip is a retired teacher . Despite suffering from Ehlers Danlos syndrome he has led an active life punctuated by many injuries arising from that activity. He is married with three children and recently welcomed his twelfth grandchild into the world. He writes; tries to do gardening when it doesn't hurt and is a member of Hull Male Voice Choir.
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