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Reliability and Consistency”
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and Publications…
An
essential read that will make you laugh and cry, be angry and proud
with every turn of the page.
Rosaleen
(
Rosie
)
overcame horrendous injuries to her physical being as a result of
her mother being prescribed Thalidomide
during pregnancy. The
drug left
Rosie
with
four fingers, two sprouting from each shoulder and thirteen toes on
legs which came to an abrupt end above the knee.
This
fascinating and beautifully written true story, charts Rosie‘s
birth into an Irish immigrant family, and leads the reader through
every facet of her inspirational life.
It includes her early years filled with long periods of
hospitalisation and treatment; her education, employment and
relationships; and onto true fulfilment of a lifetime’s desire to
be independent.
Illustrated throughout, this remarkable story of a strong willed
daughter, wife, mother and respected businesswoman, also details the
factual and historical journey of Thalidomide from Nazi Germany to
now.
This
so-called “wonder drug” of the 1960s, thought to be banished
after the tragedy unfolded, is still being used in the treatment of
various conditions and illnesses.
Rosie
examines why pharmaceutical companies are eager for it to be
re-licensed and includes her honest perspective of the drug.
“This
deeply moving book is about triumph over devastatingly severe
disability. I hold
Rosie
in
high admiration and hope her inspiring story will be very widely
read.”
-
The
Rt. Hon. Lord
Morris
of
Manchester
AO
QSO
(first Cabinet Minister for Disabled People)
“Before
you know it you are drawn into a story that makes you proud to be a
disabled person.”
- Disability Now
magazine
Free Preview:
Chapter 1: … I doubt that there were three happier people in the
whole world than
Stephen
,
James
and
me. And then our joy was
shared, if not quite so personally, by everyone that had known us
through my pregnancy.
"So what's so wonderful about all this?" you say.
“Lots of women have babies."
But I was born with legs that ended above the knee and with
no arms, and just two fingers on each shoulder.
Four fingers and thirteen toes in all.
It does make a difference. …
Chapter 6: … my mother told me of the first time that she had taken
me out shopping with her. A
woman, looking into the pram said, "Oh, what a beautiful
baby." Then,
pulling back the covers a little, she saw my little stumpy arms with
two fingers sprouting from each shoulder.
She screamed, "My God, it's a freak," and went
running up the road as though afraid that I might be contagious. …
Chapter 8: …Solicitously, they treated us with crash helmets,
transforming us into 'Metal Mickey's', a process that rather
defeated their avowed purpose of making us less conspicuous in the
world. One particularly
ingenious device involved artificial arms powered by compressed gas,
carried in a cylinder on your back, hardly something that could be
easily concealed. …
Chapter 22: … The pharmaceutical departments of the
IG
Farben
cartel used the victims of the concentration camps during human
experiments, such as the testing of new and unknown vaccines and
drugs. In the
Auschwitz
trials, correspondence was discovered…
Four
Fingers and Thirteen Toes (ISBN 978-1438942995) by
Rosaleen
Moriarty-Simmonds
,
is available from all bookstores on a "to order" basis.
Alternatively
it is available through major on-line book retailers including:-
www.authorhouse.com
www.amazon.co.uk
For
a signed copy order from:-
rms-bookorders@dsl.pipex.co.uk
(priced
£11.95
plus £.2.20
post and packaging.)
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Visitors
may also be interested in the following books, to which
Rosie
has contributed:
·
Defiant Birth – Woman who resist medical Eugenics
By
Melinda
Tankard
Reist
(ISBN: 1876756 594)
·
Living Where the Night Jive
By
Maggie
Hampton
(ISBN: 978-1905762101)
·
Dear Parents …
By
Micheline
Mason
(ISBN: 0954635159)
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For
those visitors interested in further research on Disability
Equality, Disability Discrimination and Inclusion, the following may
be of interest. RMS offers no recommendation or endorsement of the
products mentioned either expressly or by implication.
·
Disabled People in Britain
and Discrimination
By
Colin Barnes (ISBN: 1850651272)
·
Disabling Barriers
By
Swain, Finkelstien, French and Oliver (ISBN: 0761942653)
·
Exploring Disability
By
Barnes, Mercer and Shakespeare (ISBN: 9780745614786)
·
Mustn’t Grumble
By
Lois Keith (ISBN: 9780704343443)
·
Altogether Better
By
Michelin Mason and Richard Rieser
(Available
from Disability Equality in Education as part of a resource pack on
disability and inclusion in mainstream schools)
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