Former England rugby captain Lewis Moody makes heartbreaking admission after motor neurone disease diagnosis

Former England rugby captain Lewis Moody reveals he has been diagnosed with motor neurone disease Source: BBC Sport

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00:00A couple of months ago I noticed that I was getting shoulder weakness and went and saw our physio.

00:05Kerry did a fantastic job, gave me some rehab stuff to crack on with and nothing really changed

00:11over the course of sort of six to eight weeks, at which point he referred me to a brilliant

00:17shoulder specialist. I had an MRI, neck scan, all that type of stuff and very quickly when the scans

00:23came back it became clear that it wasn't anything to do with the neck, despite all the years of

00:29sort of throwing myself into contact on the rugby pitch. And he then sent me straight to the

00:35neurologist and off the back of the MRI he actually had a phone call with me where I sensed he was

00:42preparing me for the worst, which was fairly difficult information at the time to receive, I suppose.

00:51We process lots of emotions over the last couple of weeks and I suppose when you talk about it,

00:57and I generally feel fine when you talk about it. It's never me that I feel sad for, it's the sort

01:02of sadness around having to tell my mum, you know, as an only child and the implications that has for

01:09her. Having to tell the boys, I mean, you know, two brilliant boys and that was pretty heartbreaking,

01:19I mean, you know, I can't win it.