WELCOME TO THE MNDANZ WEBSITE

This site is primarily for carers, family and friends of MND'ers.

This website has been written primarily for carers, family and friends of people with MND. If you have MND yourself, youll still want to take a look but do tell your friends and family about it. It will stop you having to answer the same questions over and over again.

LATEST NEWS ON MND

The very lastest news on MND can be found using Google News by clicking here.

If you do have MND there is a lot of information on the web already and most of it is far more medically orientated than our site. Check out these sites.

Right, then. If youre reading this, chances are that you or your friend/lover/husband/wife/mother/father/sister/brother/daughter/son has been diagnosed with this thing youve never heard of. More than likely youre pretty confused, probably agitated and possibly have no idea what the doctor actually meant if you were there when they broke the news.

So what the heck, exactly, is MND?

M. N. D. Separately, they're just three little letters that doesn't mean much when they're by themselves, but put them all together and you have a disease that effectively makes the body waste away but usually leaves the intellect just fine. So, someone with MND will still be able to cry from laughter at something really funny, but they may not be able to wipe away the tears.

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