This is a dream come true for Jeremy Lim – his first book on his struggles and triumphs with a disease he was born with, Osteogenesis Imperfecta or “brittle bone disease”.

Jeremy said: “This disease affects about one in 20,000 births, so you could say that I struck the lottery with that one. And my bones would break really really easily.

“And with just a sneeze, with just a cough, my bones would just snap like a twig and each time it happens, it feels as if a sword has just been pierced into my rather delicate body. And the pain is as excruciating as the experience is traumatic.”

The occasion was extra special. President S R Nathan, whom he first met at the President’s Challenge nine years ago, not only agreed to write the foreword but also offered to launch his book.

Jeremy is a second-year student at the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. About 1,000 copies of the book are now on sale at major bookstores in Singapore.

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