Rob Burrow’s first heartbreaking words to wife Lindsey after motor neurone disease diagnosis

Rob Burrow's first words after Motor Neurone Disease diagnosisLoose Women, ITV

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00:00 So when you came out of that room together,

00:02 what did you decide when you were going home?

00:06 You've got young children, your families,

00:08 do you keep it to yourselves for a while?

00:09 Did you want to tell people?

00:11 - Yeah, such a huge array of emotions, you know,

00:13 you're constantly, you've just been told

00:14 this devastating news and the first thing in my thought was,

00:17 you know, how are we gonna tell the children?

00:18 We've got three young children under the age of 10,

00:19 how are we gonna break it to them?

00:22 And the first thing that Rob said to me was,

00:24 thank goodness it's me and not you and the children.

00:25 And that was sort of Rob's take and that was his perspective.

00:28 He was, you know, he was more bothered about myself

00:31 and the children and telling his family

00:32 and that was his biggest worry.