10/10/2022
After years of working together in silence, today on Monday October 10 2022, the book "Jij hebt ook altijd wat!" (You always have something!) was presented by of our Champion and Xilloc Ambassador Pietsje Hannema Greidanus. Our Founder Maikel Beerens had the honors to receive the first book! Pietsje we are immensely proud of you! This book is a must read!
It is the eventful life story of Pietsje Hannema Greidanus (1967) and gives a candid insight into her life; a life marked by a loveless upbringing and an oppressive power of her mother, by years of sexual abuse by her brother-in-law and by a leg amputation that plunged her into social isolation. The socket prosthesis she initially wears does not give her the freedom she longs for. An article about osseointegration changes her life. In 2010, Pietsje was the first woman in the Netherlands to receive a bone-anchored prosthesis, which, after a process of more than seven years, changed her into a self-confident, powerful woman. A woman who is fully alive and sets an example for people who are (or will be) scarred by abuse or an amputation.
Pietsje Hannema is now an expert patient at Radboudumc for future osseointegration patients and ambassador for the company Xilloc, supplier of the Nexus, a innovative and unique coupling between the osseointegrated titanium femoral implant and the prosthesis with which she walks the Famous Walk of the World! (The Nijmeegse Vierdaagse)
For me as the author, the hope and willpower of Pietsje as a person stands central in this book. No matter how much setback you get, through hope and willpower, the love of your cherished ones (in her case her husband Sjoerd and the children) and through medical innovations and passionate doctors, you can overcome any setback.
Pietsje is the living example. I greatly admire that and hope that through this book and her openness, people who have been sexually abused or who have had to undergo an amputation will gain recognition, acknowledgment and hope from it.
If you would like more information, a copy or schedule an interview with the author or Pietsje Hannema, please contact:
Eddy van der Noord: 06-54983002
You always have something too!
Author Eddy van der Noord
Publisher Louise
240 pages
ISBN 978-94-91536-95-3
19.50 euros
www.uitgeverijlouise.nl
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