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There are plenty of things that make having Motor Neurone Disease (MND) "crappy" but losing the ability to speak and laugh would be too much, says Lucy Lintott.
The 22-year-old was diagnosed with MND three years ago, making her the youngest person in Scotland with the terminal disease.
MND, which usually affects people over 50, gradually makes gripping, walking, talking and swallowing extremely difficult - and eventually impossible.
It kills about a third of people within a year and more than half within two years.
Lucy tells the BBC Scotland documentary MND and the 22-year-old Me that it is like being "slowly paralysed".
As the condition progressively takes hold she worries that her "hilarious personality will slip away".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-40721754
Awful, awful disease, and terrible to be afflicted as her life is just beginning
The 22-year-old was diagnosed with MND three years ago, making her the youngest person in Scotland with the terminal disease.
MND, which usually affects people over 50, gradually makes gripping, walking, talking and swallowing extremely difficult - and eventually impossible.
It kills about a third of people within a year and more than half within two years.
Lucy tells the BBC Scotland documentary MND and the 22-year-old Me that it is like being "slowly paralysed".
As the condition progressively takes hold she worries that her "hilarious personality will slip away".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-40721754
Awful, awful disease, and terrible to be afflicted as her life is just beginning
