CORINNE Watson was 42 when she was diagnosed with MND. Now dependent on an app to communicate, Corinne and husband Paul, 44, from Cumbria, reveal how they are making the most of every moment they have left together. Paul says: "I will never forget the day Corinne and I went to the hospital for her test results.
She was terrified, but I reassured her she was only 42 and fighting fit. When we sat down in the specialist’s office, he cut to the chase: ‘I’m sorry to say you have motor neurone disease [MND].’ I fell apart, but Corinne sat there silently.
She’d suspected that her speech slurring was due to the same incurable neurological illness that rugby star Rob Burrow had, while I’d refused to contemplate losing the most intelligent, caring, adventurous, full-of-life person I knew. READ MORE ON MND Corinne and I met in 1997 at secondary school and became an item straight away. We both went to Salford University , then got married in 2005, before having our sons, Lucas in 2010 and Leo in 2014.
Life was busy and happy, with my job in HR and Corinne working for the local government, and we had what we thought was an amazing future ahead as a family. We first noticed Corinne was slurring in spring 2021, but didn’t think much about it. Most read in Fabulous She was super-fit and healthy, running half-marathons, with a pin-sharp mind.
But as the months went by, the slurring got worse. Finally, on that cold morning in November 2022, tests confirmed our worst fears. It hit.