Communication is even more vital

Communication is even more vital for those with DMD especially staying in touch. Every month I need my mini tracheotomy changed which is because the manufacturers recommend it and at the end of that time my chest usually suffers a little. Organizing this change usually takes place via email or the phone and it usually goes fine without any problems. However this didn't occur during my most recent tracheotomy change, I emailed them as per normal but after days there was no reply. So I had a very rude awakening yesterday as I was told my tracheotomy was being changed in 30mins this was at eleven a.m. late for many but with my sleeping hours that was really early! I was tired and my mother had to quickly rush me out of bed and get me ready and we just made it. Phew! I wasn't expecting a day of coughing and a tracheotomy change that day. It's nothing major but a simple reply would have saved my mother a rush and I could have got prepared. Surprises and Duchenne's don't often mix!

Read more about tracheotomy changes and communications in my book DMD LIFE ART & ME!

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

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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