I am going to whizz around a circuit in Battersea Park on my scooter on Thursday 17th June at 4pm as one of 200 children raising money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association.  Please will you sponsor me?  THANK YOU!

 

MND is a rapidly progressive, fatal disease that in the UK affects around 5,000 people at any one time, killing at least five people a day.  The nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord of MND sufferers gradually die, causing the muscles throughout the body to stop working.

At Christmas 2008, Gordon Ferguson noticed that he was occasionally slurring and lisping when he spoke.  Two months later, a week before his 66th birthday, he was diagnosed with MND.  There is no treatment, so over the next few months, as his family looked on with helplessness and horror, this fit and vivacious man gradually and reluctantly gave up each of his functions: first eating, then talking, then walking, then moving, yet with his mind remaining as sharp as ever throughout.  In October 2009, less than eight months after diagnosis, he died.  His was a fairly typical case.

His daugher Lucy is organising this event to raise money for the MND Association which provides care for people with MND and funds research into ways of preventing, curing or at least slowing the progress of the disease.  Please help us raise money for this important cause.

Thank you for your support.

This event is kindly sponsored by Micro Scooters www.micro-scooters.co.uk