MND can get in the sea

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...

One of the activities that I can no longer do is wrap Christmas presents. I hadn't given it a thought as last year, my hands were still strong. I was having such trouble that I asked Alice to film me trying to wrap my mum's present, and it has so far had 3000 views online. With Alice's help, we got the presents wrapped, and I've scribbled on the cards with my feeble little mitts. The end result is not unlike a child's handwriting. It would have made comedy viewing on wrapping day as I had been taking in multiple deliveries over the month of Christmas presents and Alice had been stockpiling all the parcels in my bedroom. Unfortunately they contained some of her presents and I was unable to open any packages so we had to devise system whereby Alice would open a parcel and then hold it out to me with her head turned so as not to see anything. I'd then instruct her what size paper to cut, she'd put the paper up on my table all with her head t...