There's Nothing Wrong with Asking for a Little Help: and other myths

by Dave Lewis

This is the memoir of Dave Lewis who was diagnosed at age 14 with Friedreich's Ataxia, a fatal progressive neuromuscular disease. For the next 25 years he challenged himself to live life to the fullest. In the memoir he reminisces about his seemingly normal early years, the origin of his condition ("It seems that in the genetic crap-shoot of life, I rolled snake eyes.") and his years of steady physical decline. Throughout the story he shares his emotional highs and lows, the challenges and the losses sprinkled liberally with his unique sense of humor. Sometimes accused of being stubborn, he said he was simply doing what was needed to "make a life in the middle of a nightmare."

244 pages, Paperback

Published March 23, 2010

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads data base. For the Welsh writer, please see Dave Lewis.