Gillian Macnab: Last News

Casualty star George Rainsford was so inspired by Scots Huntington’s warrior Gillian McNab he asked her to be an extra on the hit show.

A Lanarkshire palliative care nurse, who has the gene that leads to Huntington’s disease, has been appointed to the board of trustees of the only charity in Scotland exclusively dedicated to supporting people whose lives are affected by the condition.

Lanark mum-of-three, who has incurable Huntington’s disease, is on cloud nine after ticking off the most daring challenge on her bold bucket list so far. After conquering every rollercoaster in the UK, braving fire walks and skydiving from 10,000 feet, the gutsy 51-year-old hospice nurse has taken to the skies again – this time with the intention of doing a double wing walk, complete with an adrenaline-fueled nose-dive from 500ft and a loop the loop at 6000ft on an airborne 1940s Boeing Stearman Biplane.

Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.A Strathcarron Hospice nurse is preparing to reach for the sky for - by taking on not one but two wing walks in a single day.Gillian McNab is taking on the daunting challenge to raise funds for two causes particularly close to her heart.As a nurse in Strathcarron’s in-patient unit for nine years, she is well aware of the great work the hospice does and aims to raise as much as possible to support that.However, she is also fundraising for the Scottish Huntington’s Association (SHA)- a charity which she has all too close a link with herself.Gillian said: “Huntington’s Disease is a rare, genetic, progressive, degenerative brain disorder.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.When palliative care nurse Gillian McNab learned that she’d lost the 50/50 flip of a coin and Huntington’s disease was to be her destiny, she and her loved ones cracked open a bottle of champagne and toasted all the reasons she had for living.Mum-of-three Gillian watched her own mother’s gradual decline from the hereditary disease – and, as a woman whose vocation is to care for people who are nearing the end of their lives, she knows that her own daughters will one day do the same.At the age of 51, Gillian is asymptomatic.She can’t control when Huntington’s will make her acquaintance, or how it will impact her body and her mind.But unlike the people she