A Motherwell nurse, who lost her dad to heart disease, is lacing up her trainers and taking on the London Marathon in his memory.Mary Speirs, 49, is running the event to raise money for the British Heart Foundation (BHF).Her dad Bert Cusack suffered many years of ill-health caused by heart failure and died at the age of 61, when Mary was just 26-years-old.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.
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He was housebound with poor mobility for many of his latter years.“And yet, despite this he was a happy, contented man who never complained.
Even in the most difficult times, if anyone asked him how he was feeling, his answer was always ‘I’m as fit as a fiddle’!“And so, as I approach my 50th birthday, I thought what better way to mark it than to take on a challenge I had never done before – the London Marathon - and to do it for my dad and the BHF.”Heart failure is a chronic condition that worsens over time and for which there is currently no cure.Around 48,000 people in Scotland have
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