User:Madon

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born in Nottingham in January of 1985, Mark suffered from a rare medical condition known as Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, which is a congenital birth defect that affects approximately 1 in 3000 children (approximate figure.). Unlike the majority of cases he only suffered from it in the joints in his hands, although at the time his family was told that it was unlikely he would ever be able to write or make full use of his hands, a fact which was later disproven as he grew up and overcame his disability - much to the suprise and amazement of the doctors involved in his case.

He was adopted at the age of one year by a family from the south of Yorkshire, and moved to the county of Hertfordshire at the age of 18 months where he was transferred to a specialist team at the local hospital, who carried out various therapies in attempts to increase the use of his fingers.

The lack of usage in the fingers casued a myriad of problems throughout school, as any amount of writing caused considerable amounts of pain/discomfort for the first few years, and the ability to write anything of any length without taking long breaks every few lines didn't develop until late into secondary school, although most things by then were being written on computers, since hand written work tended to be somewhat illegible due to problems with pen manipulation at the time.