Help Chris Line Raise £1000 for MND

Posted Sat, April 03, 2010

Helicentre's Managing Director and Chief Pilot Chris Line will be taking part in the Plymouth Half Marathon in May to help raise money for MND Association, and more specifically to help his dear friend Simon Adams raise the £1million target he has set himself whilst suffering from MND himself.

Since Simon was diagnosed with MND he made a decision to create a "bucket list". He is rapidly getting through the list, and his desire to raise the money for MND gets stronger each day. The Golden 100, is a group of Simon's friends who are taking part in the half marathon in Plymouth to support his goals.

Chris hopes to raise £1000 by doing the marathon, which will make a contribution to the target Simon has set himself. If you need any motivation to donate, please check out Simon's website which will show you how someone can take the news of terminal illness and turn it into something so positive for research in order to help others long after his death.

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Simon's Story

On the 30 October 2009, two weeks after my 46th birthday, I was informed by a neurosurgeon that I was suffering from Motor Neurone Disesase. The prognosis is quite simple, death. The timescale is anything up to three years from the time the symptoms became apparent. For me this was on a Christmas pub crawl in 2008 when I became unable to form words. In March I lost the use of my right arm. I am told that compared to many sufferers my diagnosis was quick.

The horror of being diagnosed with a terminal disease for which there is very litle effective medication, and which strikes sufferers down in most undignified way,is hard to put into words. Please visit the association website for more information.

All money will, like my body, be used to research motor neurone disease in the hope that one day, in the not too distant future the words

"you have motor neurone disease"

will be followed by the phrase

"it is cureable"

Thanks again

Simon