A dad-of-two was diagnosed with an incurable and fatal condition after tripping on his left foot.
Chris Thurston used to play football and run half-marathons, but over a period of six months in 2017, he started struggling to balance and stop in his tracks, or he'd trip on his left leg. LFC fan Chris, 42, thought it might be a "trapped nerve" in his leg, but it was actually something known as 'foot drop', one of the early symptoms of motor neurone disease, with which he was diagnosed just before Christmas that year.
Like famous physicist Stephen Hawking, the Wirral man's condition was early-onset. He felt his 'life was over' after diagnosis, saying: "I was pretty devastated. You read everything and you start thinking the worst, you think, 'What's going to happen to my wife, my family my children? How long have I got? Will I be able to walk this time next year? It's one of the most devastating diagnoses you can probably get."
