ian1964 10,724 Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill 13,717 Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 How little many of us have to complain about. Compassion is all we have to offer those like Fernando who’ve been dealt a poor hand. So very sad. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacK1950 2,378 Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 Compassion yes but admiration for him in admitting that he knows, in his still active brain, what is coming. A hard player and a good man. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
917 191 Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 He has done well fighting a disease for 6 years which has an average life expectancy of 14 months. He isn’t in pain, yet in some ways MND is a living death. Frightening stuff as anybody could develop this untreatable illness. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooponthewing 1,139 Posted June 16, 2019 Share Posted June 16, 2019 Just awful and difficult to watch. The admiration we all share for Fernando is without doubt. The strength he shows is an inspiration. What a horrible illness that strips him of his dignity and physical ability, while his brain remains lucid and alert. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete 2,499 Posted June 16, 2019 Share Posted June 16, 2019 19 hours ago, MacK1950 said: Compassion yes but admiration for him in admitting that he knows, in his still active brain, what is coming. A hard player and a good man. I am afraid he wasn't always a good man. In fact more of a ned in his younger days. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo 7,048 Posted June 16, 2019 Share Posted June 16, 2019 Such a shame to see a once fit man wasting away like this more so when we remember him in his prime . 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pete 2,499 Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 He was on a Dutch TV interview this week and he can virtually do nothing but blink his eyes. Breathing is becoming more difficult for him and he is being fed via tubes into his stomach. Horrible when you think that his brain is still 100% but is a prisoner in a body that won't work. A horrible slow death. The quicker they can find a cure for it the better. It won't help him anymore but hopefully people in the future. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo 7,048 Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 8 minutes ago, pete said: He was on a Dutch TV interview this week and he can virtually do nothing but blink his eyes. Breathing is becoming more difficult for him and he is being fed via tubes into his stomach. Horrible when you think that his brain is still 100% but is a prisoner in a body that won't work. A horrible slow death. The quicker they can find a cure for it the better. It won't help him anymore but hopefully people in the future. When any person in this condition I think it makes a case for assisted dying let's be honest you wouldn't let an animal suffer like this so why let a person suffer . 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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