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DMD Life Art and Me by Ian A Griffiths (view source)
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{{competition
|prize=a copy of ''DMD Life Art and Me'' by Ian A Griffiths
|text=Someone will win a copy of the book. Ian's now unable to write but the book has his original stamp. For your chance to win just answer the following question:
After whom is DMD named?
|date=31 July 2011
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Ian Griffiths suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - a form of muscular dystrophy which causes muscle degeneration. It begins in early childhood with difficulty in walking and progresses to cause problems with breathing and all the voluntary muscles. Ultimately it's fatal. Men and boys – it's linked to the X chromosome so affects only males (it seems that I'm in error about this -see the comment from Eunice Watson below AND Ian's just told me that he knows of three girls who are affected) – with the disease have a life expectancy of between the late teens and mid-twenties. Ian's in his mid-twenties now and he's written ''DMD Life: art and me'' to explain what it really feels like to live with the disease. And when I say 'really feels like' I do mean that. Ian doesn't gloss over ''anything''.