Me, Myself & Eye

A Unique and Hilarious Memoir About Living with Two Rare Medical Conditions Navigation
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      • Ch 1: Dan 1.0
      • Ch 2: Win Some, Lose Some
      • Ch 3: Eye of the Tiger
      • Ch 4: QEH: The Early Years
      • Ch 5: Best Friends and Bouncers
      • Ch 6: Girls and Stuff
      • Ch 7: Theatre, Shweetie!
      • Ch 8: Go East!
      • Ch 9: This Sentence is Twenty
      • Ch 11: Hello Creativity
      • Ch 13: Blind and Dumb
      • Ch 14: Demons/Angels
      • Ch 17: Lord of the Ring
      • Ch 18: OMG
      • Ch 19: Love
      • Ch 20: ATM
      • Ch 21: Blood and Tears
      • Ch 24: Rings, Fingers and Noses
      • Ch 25: Woof
      • Ch 27: Hallelujah
      • Ch 28: Pictures, Pains and Polyps
      • Ch 29: Echo
      • Ch 30: ‘I’m All In’
      • Ch 31: Showtime
      • Ch 32: Two Steps Forward…
      • Ch 34: Caught by the Fuzz
      • Ch 35: Eyes Right!
      • Ch 36: Hormones
      • Ch 38: Building Blocks
      • Ch 39: ‘After the Break…’
      • Ch 40: The Fear, The Fame
      • Ch 41: Teeth and Tribulations
      • Ch 42: The Book of Clips
      • Ch 43: Super Sharp Shooter
      • Ch 44: Water and Fire
      • Ch 45: Life’s Little Challenges
      • Ch 46: Highs and Lows
      • Ch 47: Heartbreak and Heartache
      • Ch 49: The Power of Words
      • Ch 50: So Long, Old Pal
      • Ch 52: 183%
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      • Ch 1: Dan 1.0
      • Ch 2: Win Some, Lose Some
      • Ch 3: Eye of the Tiger
      • Ch 4: QEH: The Early Years
      • Ch 5: Best Friends and Bouncers
      • Ch 6: Girls and Stuff
      • Ch 7: Theatre, Shweetie!
      • Ch 8: Go East!
      • Ch 9: This Sentence is Twenty
      • Ch 11: Hello Creativity
      • Ch 13: Blind and Dumb
      • Ch 14: Demons/Angels
      • Ch 17: Lord of the Ring
      • Ch 18: OMG
      • Ch 19: Love
      • Ch 20: ATM
      • Ch 21: Blood and Tears
      • Ch 24: Rings, Fingers and Noses
      • Ch 25: Woof
      • Ch 27: Hallelujah
      • Ch 28: Pictures, Pains and Polyps
      • Ch 29: Echo
      • Ch 30: ‘I’m All In’
      • Ch 31: Showtime
      • Ch 32: Two Steps Forward…
      • Ch 34: Caught by the Fuzz
      • Ch 35: Eyes Right!
      • Ch 36: Hormones
      • Ch 38: Building Blocks
      • Ch 39: ‘After the Break…’
      • Ch 40: The Fear, The Fame
      • Ch 41: Teeth and Tribulations
      • Ch 42: The Book of Clips
      • Ch 43: Super Sharp Shooter
      • Ch 44: Water and Fire
      • Ch 45: Life’s Little Challenges
      • Ch 46: Highs and Lows
      • Ch 47: Heartbreak and Heartache
      • Ch 49: The Power of Words
      • Ch 50: So Long, Old Pal
      • Ch 52: 183%
      • Epilogue
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Chapter 4: QEH – The Early Years

Every child faces challenges at school. The first obstacle for me to overcome contained two of the most terrifying syllables in the English language: rugby.

For the first time in the school’s four-hundred-year history, a boy was exempt from playing rugby: and that boy was me. Doctors at the Eye Hospital felt that the vascular activity around my eye and brain was a serious enough issue that I shouldn’t engage in any contact sport. The fear was that this arteriovenous malformation (or ‘the worms’ as our family called them) could become damaged if I took a hit, and potentially cause bleeding in the brain. I think there were also concerns that somehow the syndrome could pass over to the other eye, or in some way damage the eye. I didn’t really understand — I just knew I would never experience the joy of a sticking my head between another boy’s legs.

Every child faces challenges at school. The first obstacle for me to overcome contained two of the most terrifying syllables in the English language: rugby.

For the first time in the school’s four-hundred-year history, a boy was exempt from playing rugby: and that boy was me. Doctors at the Eye Hospital felt that the vascular activity around my eye and brain was a serious enough issue that I shouldn’t engage in any contact sport. The fear was that this arteriovenous malformation (or ‘the worms’ as our family called them) could become damaged if I took a hit, and potentially cause bleeding in the brain. I think there were also concerns that somehow the syndrome could pass over to the other eye, or in some way damage the eye. I didn’t really understand — I just knew I would never experience the joy of a sticking my head between another boy’s legs.