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Paule de Bretagne wanted to write a book about the illness she has suffered from since 2015, ponytail syndrome. I wanted to write my story to give hope to people who are going through difficulties.
explains the author.
Paule was a childminder when, one day, her destiny changed when she was diagnosed with the disease that almost cost her the use of her legs: cauda equina syndrome, a compression of the nerve roots of the spinal cord which innervate the organs of the pelvis and lower limbs. She was forced to abandon the job she loved and enter a painful and long journey of care, strewn with pitfalls, fractures and operations.
“My dog, my best therapy”
Orphaned at 12, Paule had already gone through difficult times. But she knew happiness within her family, in her pretty house, doing a meaningful job. Once again, destiny caught up with her, through an illness whose name alone is funny.
Paule took a year to write her book. The longest part is not writing but putting the notes in order and remembering the events according to their chronology. It stirred up a lot of memories, not always pleasant ones,
she agrees. I did it to explain my story to my children, so as not to leave things unsaid like the generations before us did.
She had her text read and corrected by a professional. For the cover of her self-published book, the author chose a photo where she poses, from behind, with her dog, an 8-year-old red stocking, who has been her best therapy. Without him, I wouldn’t walk the way I do today. You have to get it out and it forced me to move.
When a doctor asked her which treatment had worked best for her, Paule spontaneously replied: My dog.
I was full of it, 105 pages, €14. For sale on The bookeditions website ; at the Chez Nathalie business and at the tobacco bar Le Neptune, in Hénanbihen; At Delphine, hairdresser at La Bouillie; at the Hyper U of Plancoët; at Narval in Saint-Cast-Le-Guildo and at La Cave, in Sables-d’Or-les-Pins, in Fréhel.
