Ghost boy : the miraculous escape of a misdiagnosed boy trapped inside his own body / Martin Pistorius.
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TextCopyright date: ♭2013Description: xi, 276 pages ; illustrations : 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781400205837; 1400205832Subject(s): Pistorius, Martin -- Health | Communicative disorders in children -- Patients -- South Africa -- Biography | Mutism -- Anecdotes | Communicative disorders -- Patients -- Education | Communication devices for people with disabilitiesDDC classification: B LOC classification: RJ496.C67 | P57 2013Summary: January 1988. Martin Pistorius, aged twelve, fell inexplicably sick. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound. Martin's parents were told an unknown degenerative disease left him with the mind of a baby and less than two years to live. Martin was moved to care centers for severely disabled children. The stress and heartache shook his parents' marriage and their family to the core. Their boy was gone. Or so they thought.
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Previously published by Simon & Schuster, Ltd., July 2012 -- title page verso.
January 1988. Martin Pistorius, aged twelve, fell inexplicably sick. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound. Martin's parents were told an unknown degenerative disease left him with the mind of a baby and less than two years to live. Martin was moved to care centers for severely disabled children. The stress and heartache shook his parents' marriage and their family to the core. Their boy was gone. Or so they thought.
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