Modern day machines

I've had my new hoist installed as recently as last Friday but there continues to be a mystery problem. The fuses in the transformer keep blowing after 2 attempts to fix the problems we're none the wiser. It all reminds me of a stressful period I had when my through floor lift. When it was replaced it took 3 months and a temporary lift that battered my elbows before it was installed and ready. Hopefully this won't be the case this time. They really don't build things to last these days but you gotta work with what you have. It's so important to have these machines, it's amazing because fifty years ago who would have dreamed of a ceiling hoist so here's to it being fixed!

Extract from the chapter the lift debacle
...The week ended in total despair and panic as we were told something awful. A council representative dealing with our lift renewal informed us that the lift company had pulled out. Apparently it was too difficult of a job for them so they gave up; leaving me literally high and dry!...

Read more about what happened during my lift debacle in my book DMD LIFE ART & ME!

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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.