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€398

My Goal

€500

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Helps provide immediate nursing support to someone newly diagnosed with MND
€25
Funds one hour of home care to give a Caregiver a break
€60
Funds one counselling session for someone affected by MND
€250
Funds a lightweight manual wheelchair to provide independence for someone in the early stages of MND

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Walk While You Can for IMNDA this October!

Every day the most remarkable people face the toughest of battles and that’s why I’m walking while I can in support of people living with Motor Neurone Disease. Please help me reach my fundraising target or join me by walking 5km.

This autumn, it’s up to all of us to ensure that Walk While You Can continues to raise urgently needed funds for people living with MND. So not only are you helping to fund our nursing service, extra home care hours and critical equipment that's needed to keep people at home - you are also sending a powerful message of hope to every family affected by MND.

There are more than 470 people affected by this cruel and debilitating disease all across Ireland. The Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association (IMNDA) is the only organisation in this country supporting these families and it’s a charity that’s very close to my heart.

By walking or donating you will keep the amazing MND nurses in the communities where they are needed most.

Please support my fundraising efforts and help me ensure that every person living with MND receives the dedicated care and support they need.

Hope starts with one step, change happens with many.

Walk While You Can, where you can, with who you can.

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My friend Ros's MND Jouney

Wednesday 8th Oct
It can start with a few stumbles, a bit of tripping over and feeling out of breath. But surely nothing to worry about, I was just getting old, needed to take better care of myself. So, off to the gym, take it nice and steady. Suddenly 4 minutes of cardio and I’m done. I go on the floor to do stretches, and I can barely get up. I start to struggle with my grasp and picking things up. My left foot starts to drag as I walk. I go to a conference and I struggle to walk up the stairs. And I’m getting so, so tired. Needing to sleep for 2 hours when I get home, then taking more and more days off because I’m already too fatigued in the morning.

I get the appointment for the neurologist. A number of blood tests, MRIs and EMGs (electrodes inserted by needle to assess your neurones in legs and arms). The diagnosis was MND (Motor Neurone Disease) - they don’t know what causes it, and there is no cure or effective medication for it. It kills you - in months or in years. The disease is degenerative and kills you sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly - it’s different for each person. Over time you lose your independence and totally rely on others to get up, to sit down, to go to the toilet, to eat, to shower, to brush your teeth, to go out anywhere at all - eventually becoming reliant on a wheelchair. Your body just shuts down, robbing you of movement, speech and eventually breath.

Organisations like MND Ireland are massively important to help MND patients and their carers in living with this disease. 
I am extremely grateful to my mate,  Johnny Hunt, for taking on this walk in honour of MND patients everywhere, and in support of MND Ireland. Please consider donating to Johnny and MND Ireland to help in the fight against this appalling disease. Thank you, Ros Wingrove 

https://www.imnda.ie/about-mnd 

Thank you to my Sponsors

€10.50

Martin Sims

Good work for a great cause Johnny. Martin.

€52.50

Melissa

On behalf of Melissa Maine

€10.50

Martin Johnston

€10.50

Nollaig Kelly

€10.50

Paul Steadman

€10

Talking Royals ? ?

Ros your a Royals legend my friend 💙🤍

€10

Lucie Kavanagh

Best of luck:)

€10.50

Aisha Esat

MUCH love

€10.50

Aisha Esat

Much love and respect to u Johnny! U are fab!

€26.25

Daniela Ferro

Best of luck!

€26.25

Brodie Thompson

Best of luck!! Great cause! You'll smash it.

€26.25

Seán Blake

Best of luck Johnny, amazing work

€26.25

Caitríona Fitzpatrick

Best of luck with the walk and well done !

€26.25

Caitríona Fitzpatrick

Best of luck with the walk and well done

€26.25

Kieran Murphy

€26.25

Anthony O'reardon

Fair play Johnny. Best of luck

€10.50

Max Scott

Best of luck mate!

€5

Michael Austin

All the best mate 👍

€63

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