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    One Puddle Too Many
    One Puddle Too Many
    One Puddle Too Many
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    One Puddle Too Many

    By Anthony Miller

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    Ashley Miller Biography (One Puddle Too Many)
    The Title (One Puddle Too Many)

    The Title (One Puddle too many) comes from the book “I Can Jump Puddles” by Alan Marshall who at an early age contracted poliomyelitis (better known as polio or infantile paralysis) and was crippled at a very early age. Polio in Alan’s time (early 20th Century) inflicted many young people and the medical world would struggle to stop the infliction. In my early age (the 1960s) polio was not a concern as a simple injection and later oral medication took it off the radar. For Ashley there were too many puddles to jump as his life finished 12th May, 2008 at the young age of eighteen. However just like medical research found prevention for Polio I believe Medical Research will find cures for “Caps” Disease, Muscular Dystrophy, cerebral palsy or any other inflictions people find themselves having to deal with but it requires as much support as possible. This includes stem cell research and I call on everyone to set aside religious or other moral beliefs as even though it is too late for Ashley there are others who suffer and anyone with any kind of empathy must be saddened to see children or anyone suffer like Ashley did throughout his life.
    Edited with the assistance of Margaret Langdon.
    Maggie has done a great job formatting the two ebooks I have published so
    far, and they have both been accepted into Smashwords' premium catalogue.
    She also copy edited and proofread my second book, 'Tales from the Long Red
    Line'. I definitely recommend the services of Ebook Assist to authors
    wanting to self-publish ebooks.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnthony Miller
    Release dateJul 30, 2013
    ISBN9781301075164
    One Puddle Too Many
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    Anthony Miller

    Anthony E Miller is a comedian and novelist. He was Managing Director of Pear Shaped in Fitzrovia for many years and has gigged all over the UK even though nobody wanted him to. He has written one other novella Seaweed (published by Whimsical Publications).

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      One Puddle Too Many - Anthony Miller

      One Puddle Too Many

      Tony Miller and Kylie Price

      Copyright 2013 Tony Miller

      Published by Tony Miller at Smashwords

      ISBN: 978-1-301075-16-4 (epub)

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. Thank you for your support.

      Contents

      Part One

      Part Two – Chapter One

      Part Two – Chapter Two

      Part Two – Chapter Three

      Part Two – Chapter Four

      Part Two – Chapter Five

      Part Three – The Aftermath

      Part One

      5pm, 12 May 2008

      In hindsight I should have seen it coming. Ashley was not getting better, he never got this ill before and never bad enough to be hospitalised. All the signs were there, he had lost a lot of weight, he lost appetite, he developed some lumps on the lower part of his spine and his faeces were white. On top of all that he had even lost interest in his computer and any games.

      I should have seen it coming. Instead of getting stronger and growing energy Ashley’s health had been deteriorating for a number of years. Unlike what a young man at the end of his teen years should be like.

      I should have seen it coming. When his surgeon told us that he could not take the risk to operate further to help alleviate his continually worsening scoliosis. He said at time you’ll just have to try to keep as comfortable as possible.

      I should have seen it coming but any reasonable father would do just about anything for a child in need (even die if he had to) and I was living on the hope of a miracle or a sudden improvement in Ashley’s health. We did all we could but I should have seen it coming.

      However, when it did come, it came as such a shock, A grief I haven’t felt since my father died in 1979 when I was only twenty and although I am stronger emotionally now, than then the grief is worse. Sons bury their fathers, not the other way round, it seemed so unfair.

      Where’s Ashley? I asked my wife shortly after I came home from work.

      He’s just lying in his room in the dark, Kerry answered.

      The sight of him lying there on his bed, unmoving, with his Bi-pap mask [night breathing mask] on was unsettling and heartbreaking.

      Kerry, this isn’t good. We have to get him out. Can’t he watch some telly with us? I said.

      She had the look of near defeat on her face.

      Ashley, why don’t you watch ‘Deal or No Deal’ with us and have something to eat? I suggested. He shook his head.

      Please for me, I pleaded.

      After some persuasion, he agreed, but he was concerned about his breathing, and I brought his Bi-pap out with us to the lounge, where I’d set up a large blow-up mattress for him.

      Ashley ate a little, but he didn’t appear to enjoy watching the T.V., and I was concerned. I

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