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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Antony Thrower & Emily Johnson

'Cruel disease stole my dad's rugby player build and left him skin and bones'

The daughter of a former rugby player described as a “Jack the lad” has described her experience of losing her father to motor neurone disease.

Lee Brennan was diagnosed when he was just 44 and within two weeks he wasted away from being a rugby player with a strong body to “skin and bones”.

His symptoms started with slurred speech and then developed into being unable to pick up his head.

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