Hope

It’s been awhile since I have written anything.

The last few weeks have been spent coming to terms with the fact my darling husband has Motor Neurone Disease.

We knew for a while something was wrong and attributed it to a fall he had last November.  After a barrage of tests MND was confirmed.

I spent a few days crying and thinking, ‘”Why my family? This is so unfair.”  We have had to deal with a lot of serious health issues with our children, this can’t be happening to us.

After arguing with myself I slowly had to accept what was happening, but only to a point.

Both my husband and I wondered what we could possibly do to help him.  The last thing he wanted to do was give up and let this horrible disease take over.

Just by chance we were told about the NeuroPhysics Clinic in Grey Lynn.  Now I believe miracles happen.

From the moment we walked in the door we knew we had made the right decision.

The staff were kind and friendly, they understood my husband’s needs, and they worked with him and found a programme that would suit him.

The aim, put very simply, is to retrain the brain by sending signals to open new neural pathways.

My husband had an intensive four day session and every day I could see a huge difference in him.  He walks better, he takes very little in the way of pain meds (as he was before), his colour is better and he looks more like his old self.

On the days he does not go into the clinic he works out at home and his exercises are his evening ritual.

We are so thrilled with how this training has helped him.  The whole family are involved in helping him exercise and it is a joy to see my husband bright and happy again.

For months he looked dreadful and felt that way too.  Now we face happier times, and we are living in hope and not despair.

We have now planned a trip back to Lucca, Italy next June, and we are excitedly making plans.

I have also found that I am steering away from people who want to paint a negative picture about my husband’s condition. We only have room for positive comments and we will make sure that this disease keeps itself at bay.  The power of positive thinking plays a big part.  Fortunately his condition is slow moving and if anything he is improving not getting worse.

I really urge anyone who has this disease to make an appointment and go and see the lovely staff at the NeuroPhysics Clinic in Richmond Road, Grey Lynn.

Never give up hope – it is the one thing we will continue to cling to.

By Kay Rayner. Read more here.