A young Scot diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) after his 'thumb went numb' will be the focus of a documentary about his journey of living with the condition.
Davy Zyw was diagnosed with MND, a fatal, progressive neurological disease that attacks the nerves that control movement, when he was just 30 years old.
The dad-of-one first noticed something was wrong on a Canadian snowboarding trip in spring 2017. Davy, from Edinburgh, told the Record: "I was staring at my thumb, and asking ‘why is it not working?
Is it the cold? I grew up skateboarding and I’ve broken my wrist so many times – is it that?' “I wasn’t thinking it was anything serious of course." Soon after, wine buyer Davy noticed a twitching in his leg, hand and arm
Read more on dailyrecord.co.uk