Delivering Connections

My dad taught me not to take mobility and communication for granted Jonny Beardmore, 52, New Plymouth, NZ. My phone buzzed with a call and I smiled to see it was my father ringing from New Zealand. I’d been living in London for years, but my dad Eric, 73, and I chatted regularly. “I’ve got something to tell you,” he said. “I’ve been diagnosed with motor neurone disease.” “Right,” I said, shocked. He said the rare condition would progressively affect parts of his nervous system, causing muscle weakness. “They say I’ve got about two years,” he added. It was hard to believe. It was 2014 and I’d recently done an adventure driving from London to Malaysia and back again. Dad had met me in Kuala Lumpur and seemed totally fine.…

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