{"product_id":"9781506090832","title":"An Accident Waiting to Happen: a life with Ehlers Danlos syndrome","description":"The doctors said I had unconfirmed haemophilia.\u003cbr\u003ePeople said I was clumsy, a clown, an accident waiting to happen.\u003cp\u003eThey were wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have endured a multiplicity of injuries including:\u003cbr\u003e200 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. \u003cbr\u003eThese are the presents that EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME bestowed upon me. \u003cbr\u003eAt 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.\u003cbr\u003eIf I survive.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CreateSpace Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046287393008,"sku":"9781506090832","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781506090832_p0.jpg?v=1763718049","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781506090832","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}