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Codeine Diary - A Memoir (Hardcover, New)
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Codeine Diary - A Memoir (Hardcover, New)
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In Codeine Diary, award-winning poet Tom Andrews gives a riveting
and often hilarious account of living fully under the shadow of
hemophilia. Codeine Diary is a lyrical and haunting memoir of one
man's refusal to succumb to the constraints of his disease. Andrews
learned early that ordinary life is a perpetual, fragile miracle,
which drove him to race motorcycles and play in a punk band as a
teenager - pursuits most hemophiliacs would regard as foolhardy at
best. But while Andrews was "a poster child for bad insurance
risks", he was considered the healthy one in his family: his
brother suffered from a devastating and ultimately fatal kidney
disorder. In fact, the two diseases were eerily symmetrical: there
were days when Andrews would suffer a bleed while his brother's
blood would not stop coagulating. Having acquired hemophilia
through a "spontaneous mutation" and not hereditarily, having
avoided HIV, which nine out of ten severe hemophiliacs contracted
in the early 1980s, Andrews is living proof of the strange role
chance plays in our lives.
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