in england louise mason didn't see her parents and three siblings for months at a time. i was let alone most of the time my parents had other children there's no way that they could leave them with my nan it was my crime i was old so they just stopped coming. i went home three weeks a year. for week by week in the summer christmas easter. every quality was like getting to know your sisters again. in new york chances catch you and alvin law's parents decided the best way to get their arm the son to cope with life was to turn his tones into fingers for hours album was given manual task to perform with his feet. now granted having no arms and legs i rather simple disability it's a very complicated disability and i'd be lying if i didn't say it was a lot of work a lot of work a lot of time spent by myself very long very. very frustrated but i think it was the character that was built by my parents especially by my parents. that allowed me to not really think that i was all that different. it's not an easy thing to get dressed but. again it goes back to the basic theory of my

louise mason was one of five hundred thirty thalidomide babies born in england over a six and a half year period louise only learned about the circumstances of her birth by reading her father's bestselling autobiography i haven't got any arms and i had an exam and my dad said it was like a little flower buds. in know from my arms and from my lips my dad had a look at me. and. he said my. god you're not going to let this baby live. and they say yes my mom was only twenty one and she was advised by doctors to put me away and concentrate on having another family. after eleven days in hospital her parents took louise to an institution for handicapped children where she would spend the next eighteen years of her life but louise was fortunate her father had not asked another doctor to end her life because i'm questionable. that midwives and doctors were killing disabled children. in the hospitals and the delivery rooms on a large scale in britain. in germany and if there probably ever wrote. in canada another armless baby was spared by a poor ukrainian family in rural cisco. years later alv

unlike louise mason who rarely saw her mother during childhood yun shelter hill and formed a close bond with his mother from birth and her unwavering support and encouragement were critical in his career decision she never lost hope sure she said you everything you want to achieve in your life you're going to achieve it i have absolutely no doubt and when i when i turned up with it with the idea that. that i wanted to be a doctor everybody told me you should not it's not a very good idea you cannot do that you will have severe problems she said son do your own thing if that's what you want to do you're going to match yon is now an emergency room doctor in switzerland i don't consider my condition as a major issue i mean i'm not a thalidomide and for a start on the first but i'm a man i'm trying to be a good doctor and trying to be a good husband and i'm a father and a lover and i have short arms and that's it and if people have problems it's accepting me or i have problems to interact with me because i have short arms it's their problem it's not mine. it's just a little in the middle of

louise mason had been a single mother for ten years when she received a christmas card from an old boyfriend i've heard that louis haven't been very well and trying to a christmas card and come down and get a loan i think the spark reignited if the best way i could describe it he kissed me goodbye and buster flies were. i was sort of floating on on a cloud and he told his wife he was leaving. she how to impact our. and then he moved down in. the been together since. polygamy out it up and understanding with each other it's really weird you know that we cannot act on then and you go i wouldn't know what i'm talking about what you don't about but i know right away what you pointed out you know that a lot of the head or a mannerism you pick up you know that little mode if you just pick up on it or that it was i was sick then you know it really really fascinating where we communicate he would go there without even talking. and i think we i think we were made for it with it to be honest. dharma think and twenty eight years old divorced got a kid losing my hair gaining a gut no arms what a package