https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62554312 MND is so awful. It isn't a disease as such, more your body fighting itself. There is so little really known about it, but elite sports people seem to be quite prone as they have an overactive immune system. Rob Burrow of Leeds Rhinos being the most high profile case & who has fought an amazing battle with massive support from his team mates. Can't say much more, but seems so tragic.
I'm not a man of science. An 'O' Level is Physics is all I've managed. It strikes me that if some of the money from Burrow & Johnroses' fund can find an answer there may be a positive outcome, as surely correcting what is actually a physical reaction should be possible. Cancers & dementias are far more complex. What do I know, not much, but hoping there is an answer.
Its a truly terrible disease - one of my former work colleagues died from it a few years ago and its a living hell. The fact there is no cure or even way to really control it is really awful I cant think of a worse disease to get. I dont think we even know what triggers it
It is an overactive immune system. Normally a strong immune system is good. It fights off colds, covid, cancers, all sorts, MND is just your immune system fighting itself. I'm sure with research there is a way to correct it. Newtonian physics. Sadly I run a mobile DJ company, so whilst I can throw a few quid at the cause we need scientists to look at this, as a reckon it can be solved.
As others have said this is a truly awful disease. Sadly wee Jinky (Jimmy Johnstone) succumbed to it a few years back and big Doddie Weir is currently fighting a good fight against it.
RIP Lenny. Not long since finished his autobiography , tragic but inspiring at the same time Some good stories about his early career and his relationship with a certain Mr Warnock
My best man who is 55 got diagnosed last August, he is now in a wheel chair and is speach is just a slur, thankfully he did voice banking about 5 months ago, what worries him the most is thats it's a locked in illness and his mind will be still as sharp as a tac but he won't always be able to tell is family if he as something as minor as a itch or if he's hungry, I went to Taunton to visit him and he was joking that apart from his brain the only other part of him that works fine is the old boy downstairs, even with the inevitable he could still make like hearted jokes about his condition, he first noticed waves of muscle twitching in his arms and he kept going over on his ankle, an awful disease I hope one day like many diseases that they find a cure
Agreed - my boss lost his wife this year. She was diagnosed with MND just after they married about 15 years ago. Truly terrible disease
Lost my younger brother to this. Less than two years from diagnosis to death. Didn't even make 50 years old and left a wife and two young lads behind. The worst thing of all is you can end up drowning on your own saliva. Wouldn't wish it on anyone.
