Laughing at my Nightmare
By:Shane Burcaw
This book is about Shane Burcaw .He is a 21 year old guy that lives with his parents and his younger brother Alex .  Shane is diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) at a young age. SMA is a muscular disease that slowly eats away at your muscles until you have no more muscle to live. There are three different types of SMA . Type three is not serious; you can live a normal life until you are older and your body starts to deteriorate. type two is more serious whereby at a young age you will know you have it because you will not be able to move like the other children. Type one is the most serious out of all,it can start in the womb around 8 months of pregnancy. When the baby is born that baby is automatically put on life control because the baby can not support itself. Shane is diagnosed with type two. He tells us about how he copes with his daily struggles. He can't go too the bathroom by himself, and every time he needs to go to bathroom he needs to call for one of his parents or his younger brother Alex to lift him out of his chair or from his bed to the bathroom . He also can not roll over if he is lying in bed, all stuff we take for granted but he struggles to make the best of his life helping others and keeping it positive with a lot of humor and sarcasm. I like Shane's personally the most because he just wants to make people smile and laugh, but he doesn't want people to feel bad for him even though he is in a wheelchair. My favorite part was when he got drunk for the first time because almost no one realises that he wants to have the some experiences of normal kids.That was one part that he felt alive and like he didn't like he has a health problem, but it could have been dangerous because his body isn't like every other kid, his body could have given up, and he was lucky it didn't.I would recommend this book to people who like a triumphant story and like to watch the story progress from childhood to adulthood and every memorable and fun time between.