“It was a true testament to her character how she dealt with this illness.'
A son is paying tribute to his mother who died after noticing she had a “stiff ankle”.MND is a rapidly progressing terminal illness, which stops signals from the brain reaching the muscles.Alarm bells first rang for Allyson when she noticed her speech started to slur and had discomfort in her ankle in 2020.Her son Michael Risi, 26, is now remembering his mum for having “immense resilience and courage” as she battled the condition.
“As the disease worsened, so did her mobility, which ultimately left her being unable to control any of the muscles in her body and unable to talk and eat for the last year or so of her life.”in memory of his mum. Despite the mammoth challenge ahead, Michael admits to having never been a keen runner and only started training with the goal of completing the Edinburgh Marathon.
“I can only really speak for myself, but I’d say it’s going well. There are peaks and troughs, but we started with 5km runs and slowly increased the distance over time, running in the region of 25 km now."
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