Description

Available these days in trade paperback, this is actually the heart rending dilemma of 1 family's bravery, heartbreak, sacrifice, and success in facing a distressing medical problem, compiled by two master storytellers. Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five yrs old with the uncontrollable desire to twitch his throat and his life was never exactly the same again. From that time forward his life turned a heck of uncontrollable tics, desires, and unconscious utterances. Fundamentally he's identified as having Tourette's Syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive condition, and Cory embarks on an agonizing trip from specialist to specialist, suffering numerous combinations of medicines in extremely different amounts.