Original sentence: His lifelong drug problems were born of the pain-killing medications he was taking as the result of his injuries.In 1909 (age 16), he was run over by a horse-drawn cart, then kicked in the face by the horse, and the contraction of typhoid in 1910 (age 17) seem to mark a turning point in Fallada's life
Edited sentence: A severe road accident in 1909 (age 16)—he was run over by a horse-drawn cart, then kicked in the face by the horse—and the contraction of typhoid in 1910 (age 17) seem to mark a turning point in Fallada's life and the end of his relatively care-free youth.His adolescent years were characterized by increasing isolation and self-doubt, compounded by the lingering effects of these ailments.In addition, his lifelong drug problems were born of the pain-killing medications he was taking as the result of his injuries.This was due to their emerging (homo-)sexuality, and the views of the society in which they lived - one which was becoming increasingly homophobic