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Francis Clark is holding it’s annual charity
Golf day on Thursday 26 May 2016 at
Dainton Park Golf Club.
Cost per team (of 4) will be £250 to include:
• Team entry
• Tea/coffee and bacon sandwiches on arrival
• 2 course meal after golf
• Fantastic prizes
• Compete against a PGA professional
If you wish to enter a team please contact Devon Reynolds
on 01803 320100 or devon.reynolds@francisclark.co.uk
MDUK – I Fight for James
Muscular Dystrophy UK is the charity for the 70,000 people living with muscle-wasting conditions
in the UK. We bring together people affected by more than 60 rare and very rare progressive
muscle-weakening and wasting conditions.
James Keenan, born in 2006, lives with his parents and twin brothers in South West England in
Torquay. He loves Lego, Star Wars and Manchester United. His parents, Sean and Liz, describe
James as having a ‘very bright, inquisitive nature’.
His core strength for things like rock n rollers (sit-ups) was just not there. Doctors told James’s
parents he was a slow developer and would catch up.
When James started school his teachers also noticed he was struggling with getting up and
down from the carpet and was walking flat footed. Again doctors told the family it was just his
gait and that he would grow out of it.
Sean and Liz took James on holiday to Ireland where a physiotherapist family friend noticed he
had significant muscle weakness. Returning to their doctors they were sent to have blood tests
four days before their twins were due to be delivered.
James had a blood test on 23.12.13. The family’s whole world was then shattered when they
had a phone call that same evening reporting high Creatinine Kinase levels. Sean and Liz had
no means of knowing what this meant as hadn’t yet met with a consultant. The caller advised
they couldn’t elaborate but it was something to do with muscles.
After being left to google high Creatinine Kinase levels on the internet they then read the
devastating truth, Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
The family discovered MDUK through their research and saw all the efforts other fundraisers were
involved with. 19 months in they feel ready to make a positive step forward to put their all into the
fight against DMD.
So far the family have been involved in fun runs, skydive, a 10k run and selling wristbands.
Future plans include the London Marathon and much more.
To find out more about MDUK and the I Fight for James campaign, please visit
http://www.musculardystrophyuk.org/get-involved/family-funds/funds/i-fight-for-james/
or follow them on Twitter: @ifightforjames.