Why I do it...

All being well this Sunday I will be featured in a local Newspaper article. It has information on DMD, it has an interview with me and information on my book You can look out for it in the Wales on Sunday paper or go to the media Wales website to see it. I hope it helps in one thing that I am quite interested in that being awareness. That was one of the core aims for my book, because not many 25-year-olds (as I was at the time) write autobiographies. Hopefully people reading my book, especially those who do not know about Duchenne's will ask themselves why so young? After all I am no a celebrity and neither do I want to be one. I am hoping that they would see how much of a totally devastating disease DMD is and can see why time was so pressing.

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.... I’m such a positive person that giving up and dying never entered my mind at all. The next thing I did was to write on a pad of paper my mother held under my arm. In an emotionally charged moment and through many tears I scrawled in black ink “I’m too Young to Die”.....

Read all about the above story in my book DMD LIFE ART & ME!

EBOOK available here; https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/69702

Available on Amazon USA here; http://www.amazon.com/DMD-Life-Art-Ian-Griffiths/dp/1907652337/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1288120811&sr=8-1

Available on Amazon UK here; http://www.amazon.co.uk/DMD-LIFE-ART-AND-ME/dp/1907652337/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1288105302&sr=8-1

My new Ebook Poetic Diversions available to buy here; https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/206857

All links available in my website here; http://duchennemen.net16.net/Buy-my-books/

My art can be viewed here; www.artwanted.com/thebigG2005


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