Diary Of A Vampire In Pyjamas

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This is a memoir by French bestselling & award-winning author & musician Mathias Malzieu It focuses on a single year in which he explores his close encounter with death Insightful tragic & even often very funny it is a hugely inspirational read In November 2013 Malzieu is diagnosed with a rare & life-threatening blood disease his bone marrow does not produce enough blood cells & those that survive are being attacked by the body's natural antibodies as if they were viruses Highly anaemic & at risk of a cardiac attack or fatal haemorrhaging Malzieu is whisked into hospital & spends months in a sterile isolation room He is kept alive by blood transfusions while waiting for a bone marrow transplant When he has the energy for it he writes in his diary & strums his ukelele To read this book is to be in awe of the triumph of the human spirit As a reader you find yourself marvelling at how we find the mechanisms to cope with tragedy & uncertainty when faced with the reality that we may die Malzieu's highly active imagination allows him to transcend the limits of his body & its increasing failures through fantasy & escapism His wonderfully addictive childish wonder with a punk Gothic twist lifts the narrative from being a depressing account to a reading experience that is evocative poetic & intensely moving Malzieu survived thanks to a revolutionary operation involving stem-cell treatment with the blood from an umbilical cord As he leaves the hospital with not only a different blood group but also a different DNA he describes himself as the oldest newborn in the world As Malzieu says himself ' To have had my life saved has been the most extraordinary adventure I have ever had'