Lack of awareness. That was the problem when the ambulance was unable to take Pauline Scott to hospital.
Coling Hardy representing MNDA in Berwick. (Motor Neurone disease awareness)
Pauline needed medical help after a fall. She had Motor Neurone Disease. Her brother, Colin Hardy, recalls that when the ambulance arrived at her Scremerston home it was not sufficiently equipped to cope with a patient imprisoned in her own body.
Instead, Pauline’s family had to transport her in their own specially-adapted car, with paramedics sitting in the back. The ambulance followed behind as Pauline was taken to Wansbeck hospital in Ashington.
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By Tom Levitt, for CNN
September 24, 2012 — Updated 0848 GMT (1648 HKT) |
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(CNN) — Take two video-game console cameras and one pair of horn-rimmed glasses and for around $30 you have a device that will allow you to control a computer or, potentially, even a wheelchair with your eyes.
Previously, if you wanted to buy similar eye-tracking equipment it would have cost you upwards of $8,000. Now, scientists in London have pioneered a device, the GT3D, using components anyone of us can buy from the shopping mall.
By Angela Brooks
July 03, 2012
A TERMINALLY ill man is fighting back and campaigning to raise awareness of his condition, starting with his home town of Horley.
Liam Dwyer, 48, of Balcombe Road, was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) in 2005 after going to see a doctor about minor pain in his knee.
Now unable to walk, he is on a mission to raise the profile of a disease which kills five people every day in the UK.
Mr Dwyer, who has been with his wife Anna for 25 years and has an 18-year-old son, said: “I feel I am on borrowed time at the moment. Nine people [who] I have met since I was diagnosed, all diagnosed after me, have died.
“The doctors can’t tell me how long I will live now. I could be just a cold away from dying.”
