Liane Alton explains why she has chosen to set up a memorial fund in memory of her brother Michael, who died age 7.
"Michael had had one fit, the doctors weren't sure if it was epilespy or just because he had banged his head, he then had a second fit and unfortunately he died from this one. It was a massive unexpected shock, and it has taken a long time for me to be old enough - I was 9 when he died - and brave enough to set up this fund in his memory. I hope to raise as much money as possible in his memory as I hope no-one in the future ever has to lose a child/sibling so unexpectedly.
I will be doing the London Big Run Fun
on 02/10/2011, to raise money in Michael’s
memory.”
Liane Alton, March 2011
Donate to the
Michael Alton Memorial Fund
Epilepsy Research UK would like to thank
Liane Alton for her involvement with us.
Our memorial funds play an essential part
in funding the charity's research. This
year, they are supporting a project led
by Professor
Mark Richardson, which is exploring
the complex brain networks involved in temporal
lobe epilepsy.
