Still a larger-than-life character at the Palmerston Magpies Football Club — a club he led to the 1980-81 premiership when they were known as North Darwin — he was busy and vibrant and a character.
We were obviously worried,concerned that he might have been suffering small strokes,and the neurologist kept searching for an answer to what was affecting the mobility in his legs.
Then nearly four months ago,I had a call from the neurologist,who delivered the bad news. My dad had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease.
The first person I thought of was Neale Daniher.
I instantly knew because of his FightMND campaign and the Big Freeze that MND was incurable. I recognised immediately that the disease Daniher had described as “The Beast” had been lurking around Dad for 18 months.
The news hit me like a ton of bricks.