An Accident Waiting to Happen: a life with Ehlers Danlos syndrome

By Philip Howard

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"..

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1506090834
• ISBN13: 9781506090832
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"