Reading List // Laughing At My Nightmare – Shane Burcaw

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This book popped up in the related titles column and the title, combined with the cover, intrigued me to find out exactly what it was about.

Shane Burcaw, 21 when he wrote this book, suffers from Spinal Muscular Atrophy, and has been in a wheelchair since he was diagnosed aged 2.

He relies on other people to help him in pretty much every part of day to day life, even things most of us take for granted like rolling over in bed to get more comfortable, getting dressed and going for the toilet – of which the process is amusingly recounted to us in the book. Continue reading “Reading List // Laughing At My Nightmare – Shane Burcaw”