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This blog is related to my autobiography DMD Life art and me plus there will be non related posts. I have the disease Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and that has left me in a near paralyzed state, I wrote this book in 10 months using one finger clicking one mouse button on one on screen keyboard! Be a follower by clicking in the box on the right and you'll get every new post I make. Feel free to join in with your comments and enjoy!

Ian,

Author and Digital Artist

Thursday 5 April 2012

Digital art reveals itself!



After being aimless for 5 or 6 years I found something I could do! Digital art came to my attention, whilst browsing a famous internet retailer I found art software products by Corel. After some hesitation I jumped in and bought it. It certainly could be a useful product for anyone to use. Look up Corel Painter if you're interested.

After 4 years hard work I improved a lot and even sell my art! Anything is possible!
Extract;
...I felt something building inside me which I can only assume now was a remembrance of my previous school art exploits. I thought my drawing days were long over, but here in front of me on the screen was proof that I could now draw on the computer!...

Explore more of my art endeavours and see some of my creations in my book DMD LIFE ART & ME; Available in ebook and paperback versions here; http://duchennemen.net16.net/buymybook.html


Foreword

I’m Ian Griffiths from South Wales. This book is a story of my life so far up to the age of twenty five years. I live with and suffer from the ill effects of DMD which stands for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. It is a severe muscle wasting disease and a life limiting terminal illness. It won’t kill you in six months in the traditional sense of ‘terminal’, but it’s far crueller than that, it steals every muscle in your body first and then kills you, anywhere up to the age of thirty. There have been cases of men living past that into their forties and fifties but only with drastic interventions such as ventilators and tracheotomies, more on this can be found by reading on.
I hope to cover a few things in this book, from a history of my childhood years to a more detailed history from sixteen years onwards and finally onto my current problems and triumphs. At times things I write may make you smile or may make you pause and think about the seriousness of life with this devastating disease. I really hope there will be a cure but currently for us supposedly ‘older’ guys with DMD (over twenty one), there seems very little hope. If I don’t see a cure in my lifetime, I hope my campaigning helps in some way bring it about for future generations, so another child won’t have to see their body wither and die before their time.

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