The medical profession gave him between three and five years to live with him, he has been twisting his neck due to 18 years. In Saint-Nazaire (Loira-Atlantique) Yannick Ferrand, 62, has suffered from amyotrophic sclerosis (SLA or pudd disease) for almost 18 years.
An evolving disease, whose symptoms were extreme fatigue and discomfort in speech, forced this ancient butcher in hypermarket to stop their professional activity, reports West France This Monday, April 7.
“It was not the disease that made it stop living”
However, and despite the growing difficulties, the man decided to fight. If you still live with your home with your wife Patricia, Yannick Ferrand goes to a daily house twice to allow you to rest.
At home, everything was adapted to Yannick. From now on, the couple’s garage constitutes the ground floor. A redevelopment of the necessary house and started 13 years ago, during the beginnings of Yannick Ferrand in a wheelchair.
In fact, in 2011, during the marriage of his eldest daughter, the man of sixty and so many brutally loses the use of his lower extremities. “The emotion was too strong to endure and it is a trigger for a disease that evolves. The slightest fall can make loser capacities that are difficult to recover,” entrusts our colleagues in Ousest France Sylvain Alorent, Yannick’s masseuse physiotherapist.
In spite of all the fights of man tirelessly, determined to make the statistics be and frustrate the doctors’ forecasts. “I had three or five years left to live,” he told the newspaper.
“It is a great talkative who holds that of his former job. (…) It is not the disease that made him stop living,” explains Patricia Ferrand.
In fact, Yannick remains active and communicates with his relatives through a tablet that emits a synthetic voice. He also receives messages from other people with Charcot disease. People who, like him, must force the force with a SLA.
According to his physiotherapist, Yannick is a fighter. One of those who, despite reduced mobility, can attend a football match if the weather allows it. Therefore, it was double that the caregiver, who became a friend, and the patient went to the Beaujoire stadium to encourage the Nantes team. “I give myself challenges of life,” Yannick insists Ouse France. “I’m not afraid of death. Sometimes I laugh. The day it will come, I’ll be ready.”
Source: BFM TV
