IT is now almost three years since Ian Pratt was told he had motor neurone disease and only two to five years left to live.
At the time Ian, now 45, vowed to cram years and years of love and happiness into the few years he had left with wife Catherine and daughter Georgiana, then aged three.
The disease is slowly shutting down his body and now affects his speech, but he still manages to make jokes and coolly assess his own situation.
He said: "I am not ready to give up. When I was diagnosed I had a choice to make: accept the disease and enjoy each and every moment I am blessed with, or fall into a dark hole of self-pity."
** Ian's full story appears in the Barnsley Chronicle newspaper, dated June 19. **
