A Story of Triumph over Childhood Separation, Trauma and Disability

[Helen]

No one believed me. “Children couldn’t have been treated like that”. But we were.’ Harry Drabble

‘Yet‘: A Story of Triumph over Childhood Separation, Trauma and Disability

In 1937, two-year-old Harry Drabble was diagnosed with bovine tuberculosis after drinking unpasteurised milk. Torn from his mothers’ arms, he spent much of his childhood confined to Sheffield’s King Edward VII Memorial Hospital for Crippled Children where he endured emotional neglect and profound isolation while physically confined to a bed.

Told through Harry’s own unflinching words and with insights from his daughter, author and counsellor Helen Parker-Drabble, this moving memoir tells the story of his extraordinary resilience and exposes the shocking inadequacies of mid-twentieth century healthcare.

As a result of his experiences, Harry developed a determined outlook based on adding ‘…yet’ when faced with impossible obstacles. He would say to himself, ‘I can’t walk…yet,” I can’t go to school…yet,’ ‘I can’t marry and have a family…yet’, before proving with thoughtful perseverance he could, and did, achieve all those milestones and more.

This father-daughter collaboration offers a rare window into a hidden chapter of British medical history while delivering a timeless message about fortitude in overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds.

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