BEFORE THE SHAKING Book 2 in the OMS Series
About the Book
Kid was three years old when his legs stopped working.
He was three years old when the doctors at the first hospital said it was strep, and the doctors at the second hospital said it was a virus, and his Mommy did not believe either one. He was three years old when she drove him three hours through the dark to find the people who would finally say the name.
Opsoclonus Myoclonus Syndrome. OMS. A sickness so rare only a few children in a millions ever have it.
Kid does not remember most of those days. He was too little.
His Mommy remembers.
She remembers the bright lights. The long drives and the bathroom where she finally let herself cry. She remembers the kind student doctor who got down on Kid’s level and made her the list. She remembers the morning twelve doctors came in expecting her to break, and the words she said back to them instead.
Before the Shaking is the second book in Kid’s Story with OMS, the true picture book series about Hunter Crum and his family’s journey through one of the rarest neurological conditions in the world. It is the part of the story Kid was too little to keep.
His Mommy kept it for him.
Future Plans
I did book one and now I have finished book 2 for my children’s OMS series. I learned a lot in the writing process and the graphics. In addition, I interviewed my son (dx’d with idiopathic medicinally resistant OMS at 3 and is now 12….nearly died in my arms at 8 after PLEX). He is, officially, a co-author and I’m going to do about 6 books in this children’s series, as well as, doing a memoir (of sorts) that is my journey through this process to help with my healing.
