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04/01/2026 'The luckiest man on the face of the Earth' by David

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I've just send the blog to Alice for spell checking and grammar and I said to her that there isn't much about me and MND. I then tried to get up to go to the toilet and I dropped the TV remote, the electric fire remote, my phone, and my coffee cup, all in succession. I think that says more about me than a hundred word paragraph. Christmas and New Year bank holidays are perfect opportunities to get together with family and friends to celebrate, but the holiday season can also be a time for reflection. This January marks three years since what I like to call my 'Theory Of Everything' moment, when I fell while out training for the Brighton marathon. Just like Stephen Hawking's fall (played by Eddie Redmayne) in the dramatisation of his life with Motor Neurone Disease, I hit the ground so quickly that I didn't put my arms out to break my fall, and consequently broke my glasses, and suffered a bad cut above my right eye.  When I was diagnosed 6 months later after e...