A truly wonderful place Ruth Williamson (40) was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) at the end of 2017, just 11 months after giving birth to her daughter Anna. MND is a rapidly progressing terminal illness, which stops signals from the brain reaching the muscles. The news left Ruth, her husband Scott and their family devastated.
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n under five years, I’ve gone from being a busy, active new mum who loved doing things with my husband and daughter to being completely paralysed. It’s very lonely being trapped in my body with a fully functioning brain but the Hospice has become my safe place – somewhere with incredible
staff where I can go and get support and be ill without people staring. The most difficult thing about having MND is knowing that I can’t walk my little girl to school, hug her, do her hair, read to her, the list goes on and on. Anna is five now and mentally, not having that interaction leaves me with a sense of pure guilt that
