A Scots mum has told how her football-mad husband died less than two weeks after being diagnosed with Motor neurone disease.Claire Clark watched her husband John, 41, go into hospital on Hogmanay after collapsing at their home in Doune, Perthshire, but never imagined he would never come home.The massive St Johnstone fan died at the Forth Valley Royal Hospital last month - 12 days after being diagnosed with MND.The factory worker had planned his own funeral just two days earlier and was laid to rest last week, with his coffin draped in the flag of his beloved football club.Claire, 43, has spoken of her heartache to help warn others of the symptoms of MND, an uncommon condition that affects the brain and nerves - which she says were dismissed by medics on various occasions.The carer said: “Once he went into hospital on Hogmanay he never got back out.
We had no real time to prepare.“The week he died we were planning on getting him home and I was getting things ready at the house.
I stayed at the hospital with him the night before and went home to get a shower.“I left at 8am and got a phone call at 9.30am saying he’d died in his sleep.“I know it can take a long time to diagnose MND and there’s not a lot you can do for it, but I just feel like he was let down.
We said it could be MND many times because we’d seen his gran suffer from it.”John had just returned from a holiday in Turkey when he started being sick in July.
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