We are taking on the Three Peaks Challenge in August to raise money for research into treatments and a cure for Charcot Marie Tooth (CMT).

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In 2019, we found out, after many tests, that our daughter was born with CMT - a disease we had never heard of before. It was heartbreaking and incredibly overwhelming as parents to know nothing about a disease which will affect your child’s entire life.

But that’s where we’re hoping research will make a difference! Therefore, we want to raise as much as we can for this cause.

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CMT is a group of genetic conditions affecting the peripheral nerves, which connect the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body.

Symptoms include muscle pain, nerve pain, chronic fatigue, numbness, muscle atrophy/weakness, curled fingers and toes, high arches in feet, foot deformities, tremors, cold hands and feet, drop foot, breathing difficulties and more.

CMT is progressive, although every person’s experience is different and there is no way of knowing how this condition will go on to affect our daughter and her future.

Currently there is no cure for CMT.

Currently there are no treatments for CMT.

Regular physiotherapy, hospital check ups, orthotics, surgery and pain relief can help manage symptoms.

The paediatric, neurology and physiotherapy teams who work with our daughter have been incredible in supporting and helping us.

Along with this, we must mention CMT UK, who as a charity spent hours on the phone to us during lockdown, supporting us with this new diagnosis we knew nothing about.

We also want to mention CMT Research Foundation, based in America who do research into treatments and cures for CMT.

We have chosen to donate all money to Muscular Dystrophy UK who are based in the UK and are doing research into finding treatments and cures for CMT, along with other muscle wasting conditions. So if you can, please help us raise as much money to help keep this research going!

We are forever grateful for your support! Thank you!

Dan and Lucy

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From Muscular Dystophy UK:

“Muscles.

We use them to move.

Walk, eat, smile, cry.

Pump blood around our bodies.

To breathe in and out.

Our muscles matter.

By fundraising for Muscular Dystrophy UK, I’m helping to fund world-class research into effective treatments, and life changing support for the 110,000 people in the UK living with a muscle-wasting condition.

All donations and support are greatly appreciated. Thank you!”