A mother with motor neurone disease has defied doctors' diagnoses by passing her predicted maximum life expectancy – but might now have just six months left to live. Ailsa Malcolm-Hutton was diagnosed with the devastating illness back in 2013 when she was just 30-years-old.
The condition is a life-limiting, muscle-wasting disease which affects the sufferer’s ability to walk, talk, eat and eventually breathe. There is currently no cure and life expectancy after diagnosis is just two to five years.
Ailsa, from Davyhulme, first knew something was wrong when she began cramping in her thumbs and struggled to do her daughter’s hair for school. By the time she was eventually diagnosed, she could no longer use her arm and was forced to give up her job as a makeup artist.
