Summary
ON THE floor of Ann Maxwell's home is a small white alarm box. Above the television, there is a smaller, secondary flat screen, which she turns on to reveal a CCTV image of her son Muir's bedroom. Yet Maxwell and husband Johnny aren't obsessively protective parents; these gadgets may just save the life of the eight-year- old.
Muir Maxwell has epilepsy. He has suffered seizures since infancy, is severely brain damaged and has the intellectual development of a two-year old. But the Maxwells did not just fall back on established charities to help their son; they went one better. The couple set up the Muir Maxwell Trust, to increase awareness of and raise funds for child epilepsy - and on Saturday their fourth charity ball at Prestonfield House Hotel in Edinburgh raised in excess of GBP 500,000.See the full content of this document
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Family Who Prove Charity Really Does Begin at Home
Ann Maxwell explains how it happened: "Before we had Muir, I hardly knew anything about epilepsy. I presumed it was all controllable with medication, and so long as you were careful and prepared, life carried on as normal. If only..."
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