'Mum’s MND was a living nightmare – her screams will haunt me forever'

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Motor Neurone Disease has launched into the public eye since brave rugby star Rob Burrow shared his emotional battle with the world.

In a stadium of 10,000 people, 33 will get MND over the course of their lives.The degenerative and dramatically life-shortening disease is one that our writer Kirsten Jones knows only too well.

Kirsten's nightmare began when her mum, Mandy, was diagnosed at just 59 years old... “Mum’s walker trundles slowly down the hospital corridor, the sound of her deep breaths echoing loudly as she drags her failing body into the consultant’s office.

He leans forward into the thick silence and delivers the words we’ve been dreading: ‘I’m very sorry to tell you that you have motor neurone disease’.