Mum's tragic battle
By SIMONE ROSAMOND
September 8, 2007




A MONTH ago Sarah Turk was running up to 5km a day and preparing for her new role in the Air Force.

Then she noticed she was losing the strength in her calves.

The 25-year-old Oak Flats woman visited a physiotherapist a couple of times but he could not help.

"When he threw his hands up in the air and said 'I just don't know what's wrong', I knew," she said.

The mother of two young children, Logan, 3, and Hannah, 2, has already lost her mother, grandmother and two cousins to motor neurone disease and now she has received the same diagnosis.


The disease, which is incurable, causes a wasting of muscles and a gradual loss of mobility in the limbs, difficulties with speech, swallowing and breathing. It can affect adults of any age but the majority are between 50-70.
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