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Goodbye to the good society
BOB HOLMAN, who suffers from motor neurone disease, explains how his faith, his community work and his family give him strength despite the cruelty of his condition
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A HOSPITAL in Glasgow in July 2015. A consultant speaks frankly to me: “Mr Holman, I am sorry to say that you have motor neurone disease.”
For months, I had been under several departments for difficulties in swallowing and coughing fits, loss of use in my right hand, breathlessness and problems with my voice. Then it was brought together by the neurology department — motor neurone disease (MND).
MND is a rare but deadly disease. It involves the decline in use of nerves and muscles with the sufferer unable to carry out basic tasks.
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