{"id":192885,"date":"2025-10-06T06:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192885\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T06:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:57:12","slug":"former-england-rugby-captain-lewis-moody-reveals-mnd-diagnosis-lewis-moody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192885\/","title":{"rendered":"Former England rugby captain Lewis Moody reveals MND diagnosis | Lewis Moody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The former England rugby union captain and 2003 World Cup winner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/lewis-moody\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Moody<\/a>, has been diagnosed with motor neurone disease, he has told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The 47-year-old told the BBC of his diagnosis on Monday, two weeks after being given the news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThere\u2019s something about looking the future in the face and not wanting to really process that at the minute,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not that I don\u2019t understand where it\u2019s going. We understand that. But there is absolutely a reluctance to look the future in the face for now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Fellow rugby players Doddie Weir and Rob Burrow have died from the illness in recent years, with rugby \u2013 and in particular the England skills coach Kevin Sinfield \u2013 embracing a high-profile fundraising campaign to tackle it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cYou\u2019re given this diagnosis of MND and we\u2019re rightly quite emotional about it, but it\u2019s so strange because I feel like nothing\u2019s wrong,\u201d Moody added. \u201cI don\u2019t feel ill. I don\u2019t feel unwell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cMy symptoms are very minor. I have a bit of muscle wasting in the hand and the shoulder. I\u2019m still capable of doing anything and everything. And hopefully that will continue for as long as is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">More details soon \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former England rugby union captain and 2003 World Cup winner, Lewis Moody, has been diagnosed with motor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-192885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}