A bride-to-be who longs to dance at her wedding but risks being internally decapitated at any moment is desperate to raise £50k for brain surgery so she can walk down the aisle and be given back her life.
Forced to put plans for her big day on hold, Louise Turner, 36, received the terrifying news last year that she has a combination of conditions that have made her neck muscles too weak to support her head, leaving her wheelchair-bound and unable to leave her house without a neck brace.
Fearing she could die at any minute, Louise, who lives in Ashford, Kent, with her science teacher fiancé Robin McNicoll, 33, and her four children Luis, 18, Sidney, 14, Travis, 10, and Astraea, nine, feels her only hope is surgery available in Spain and is now desperately trying to fund it, saying: “I try not to think about what could happen because it’s terrifying.