When Kimberly Jayne spoke to her former partner Rohan on the phone, months after their amicable breakup, she was shocked to hear that his speech was slurred. “I feared he’d had a stroke,” she recalls.
Kimberly convinced Rohan to see a doctor, and when he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND), she became his primary carer. It was October 2020, towards the tail end of Melbourne’s long lockdown, and Rohan’s close family lived interstate.
