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

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."