A 45-year-old father of two who had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) has died from coronavirus, his family has confirmed. Craig Ruston, from Kettering, passed away on Monday morning after testing positive for the virus.
In a Facebook post on his 'Me and My MND' page, his wife Sally and daughters said Ruston was 'not ready to go'. He was diagnosed with MND in June 2018 and given roughly two years to live, but had been 'pushing that back'.
Ruston fell ill on Tuesday last week and spent six days in isolation. His family expressed anger that the virus took him, saying: 'How dare that take Craig, who was already facing this, the most vile and evil of diseases.'
His wish upon death was to donate his brain to the Oxford Brain Bank for MND research, but this could no longer happen due to the virus. The family described him as a 'wonderfully kind and caring' person who welcomed everyone and was fighting to raise awareness of MND.
