Ruth Taylor at home in Leeds.
A Leeds family has re-appealed to YEP readers to help with donations for a former St James’s Hospital worker who is suffering with motor neurone disease (MND).
Ruth Taylor, 44, is deteriorating rapidly since her diagnosis this summer and desperately wants to try stem cell treatment - but still needs thousands of pounds.
The treatment she wants is not available on the NHS and a previous appeal brought little in the way of financial help, so her family are now asking people in the run-up to Christmas to donate whatever they can manage.
Moor Allerton woman Ruth, a passionate world traveller and former St James’s Hospital worker of more than 20 years, was diagnosed in the summer after experiencing cramps around her body.
It is not exactly known why MND happens, nor are there currently any cures for the condition, which affects the nerves in a person’s brain and spinal cord that tell muscles what to do.
Ruth’s symptoms are becoming worse by the day, but she still has dreams of marrying partner Rob Rippon and living a long life.
Her brother Samuel has set up a crowdfunding page with the hope of raising £30,000 for stem cell treatment, but so far £915 has been given.
She added: “My condition is deteriorating.