'Doctors said the gym would fix my knee - then I was told I'd never walk again'

Landing his first full-time job in the pottery industry at the age of 19, the teenager's future was looking bright.

Paul followed their orders but struggled with step aerobics, prompting his family to take him to a private orthopaedic surgery.Muscular dystrophy, or MD, is a hereditary condition that causes muscles to waste away. “The doctor told me, ‘I think you’ve got a form of muscular dystrophy,’” the now 56-year-old told the Manchester Evening News. “I said, ‘What’s that?’

“I carried on as normal. I was working, got married and had kids. It made no difference at all. But then I started to notice things.” “Before I was in a wheelchair, I depended on my wife a lot to go food shopping if I didn’t feel like it.“I would go shopping on my own, go to the hospital on my own and go fishing on my own.“It’s just been a rollercoaster, but I’ve always tried to see the positive side of things.”That’s why he helped set up the Neuromuscular Centre Fishing Club – a volunteer-led group who introduce fishing to people who have physical disabilities.

The Neuromuscular Centre Fishing Club has used funding from the GetFishingFund to source new, accessible equipment including telescopic ultra-light rods.

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