Then It Was My Turn

In 2005, strange ulcers appeared on Bradley King's neck. What followed were years of misdiagnoses, failed treatments, and devastating physical decline. He was eventually diagnosed with pyoderma gangrenosum—a rare immune disorder affecting only 3-10 people per million annually.

This memoir documents a twenty-year experience living with pyoderma gangrenosum. King writes in plain language about the realities of a rare disease that many doctors have never encountered: the physical devastation, the psychological impact, the erosion of career and independence, and the long process of adapting to a more limited life.

For patients newly diagnosed with pyoderma gangrenosum, this book offers what medical literature cannot—a real-life account of what living with this condition actually looks like. For family members, it provides insight into what their loved ones face. For medical professionals, it offers the patient perspective often missing from clinical descriptions.

King also reflects on how chronic illness changed his understanding of empathy, chance, and human existence—offering perspective without false optimism or self-pity.

Written twenty years after symptoms began, this patient memoir provides solidarity to those facing their own battles with rare immune disorders and chronic illness.

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