MARTIN PISTORIUS On The Drew Marshall Show

Listen to the entire radio interview from February 28/15 at www.drewmarshall.ca

Ghost Boy is the in-depth story of Martin Pistorius. A kid who the world had figured was gone! But he was alive... trapped inside his own body. Martin’s autobiography, "Ghost Boy: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body", tells the story of Martin's terrifying misdiagnosis and mysterious return to life.

While everyone thought he was in a vegetative state for twelve years, he was fully aware and trapped inside his own body.
In January of 1988, at the age of twelve, Martin came home from school complaining of a sore throat. He never went back. An inexplicable illness took over his body, symptom by symptom. First, he lost his voice and stopped eating. Then he slept constantly and shunned those around him. Within a year and a half he was mute and wheelchair-bound. Doctors told Martin’s parents their son had an unknown degenerative disease and he was given two years to live.
In a matter of months, Martin had gone from a happy, healthy boy to a hollow shell. He was in a virtual coma, and doctors would never find the cause of his condition.

Four years later, at the age of 16, Martin started to regain consciousness. But no one knew. He was still trapped in his broken body, and he completely unable to communicate.

“Have you ever seen one of those movies in which someone wakes up as a ghost but they don’t know that they’ve died?” he writes. “That’s how it was, as I realized people were looking through and around me. However much I tried to beg and plead, shout and scream, I couldn’t make them notice me.”

For an unimaginable twelve years, Martin was fully conscious while trapped inside his unresponsive body, secretly aware of everything happening around him and utterly powerless to communicate it. He recounts how much he wanted to die in those days, how alone and powerless he felt.

Martin’s journey back to communication—back to life—was a slow one. He first gained small amounts of body control, such as the ability to squeeze a hand. Even then, medical professionals declared he only had the intelligence of an infant. It was a special nurse named Virna who was convinced that there was something more going on in Martin’s mind, something very alive below the surface.
Ghost Boy is Martin’s story, as written – shockingly and triumphantly – by Martin himself. In its pages, readers see a family’s resilience, the consequences of misdiagnosis, abuse at the hands of cruel caretakers, and the unthinkable duration of Martin’s mental alertness betrayed by his lifeless body. www.ghostboybook.com

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