Alex lost his life to motor neurone disease in March 2022. He wrote this message just before he died.
In late 2018, my wife Laura and I stood at the start line of the 255km Transalpine Run. It felt like the biggest challenge we’d ever face together.
We had no idea that soon after, we’d be told I was dying from motor neurone disease (MND).
Now, I can’t walk. My arms have become so weak that I need help to eat. I can’t get out of bed, wash or dress myself. MND has taken almost everything from me.
By the time you read this, MND will have taken my life.
An MND diagnosis is a death sentence. There is no cure. But the MND Association is funding research that could find one. Will you give right now to help?
It’s impossible to predict how long it will take to kill you – and there’s very little you can do to slow it down. I wanted to be there for my young son and daughter as they grew up. I wanted to travel the world with my wife. I’d stored up hundreds of thoughts, big and small, about my future. Now, MND has forced our family to give up everything we’d ever hoped, dreamed and strived for.
It’s too late to save my life. But in these final months I can still ask for your help to spare other families from being torn apart by MND.
This nightmarish disease need not remain untreatable. Knowledge is advancing with each new research project. But more funding is needed to accelerate research towards a cure.
Will you be one of the people who makes that cure possible?
Please. Donate today. Let’s find a way to beat MND.
Thank you,
Alex
We have to find a way to beat MND. Will you help?
As a new chapter in Mike and Zoe’s lives was about to begin, motor neurone disease changed their story.
Mike and Zoe met on the Channel 4 programme First Dates. That day changed both of their lives. They each found their soulmate. But as a bright new chapter was about to begin, MND was already, silently, cutting Mike’s life short.
MND is a devastating disease. It can run in our families, or it can strike us out of nowhere. Today and every day, 6 more people like Mike will be diagnosed with MND. Each one will be told that they will die early because of it and there’s nothing that can stop it or slow it down. They’ll watch their bodies begin to fail as they lose the ability to bring up their children, support their families or do the things they had long dreamed they might do.
Will you help stop MND destroying people’s lives?
Will you support world-class research and vital care?
Dr Nick Cole, Head of Research at the MND Association explains how your donation could help.
“We’re fighting MND on every front. We’re funding ground-breaking research that will mean we can one day save the lives of people like Alex. But MND researchers need your support to make that happen.
“And until we find a cure, we’ll need to keep providing life-changing support and practical advice to people diagnosed with this devastating disease, and their families. Will you help them with a donation too?”
