About Walk in the Park

What is "Walk in the Park"?

Walk in the Park is a metaphor for life in general (My MS, Anya's AHC, and the environment in general) where we are so used to living life with so many hardships that everything else becomes secondary. It's all about this "Walk in the Park".

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Contributor (Abhishek)

Hello there and thank you for making your way to my blog and my about me page.

My name is Abhishek Behl also known to many as Abhs. I have a background in wildlife conservation with a master's (MSc) in wildlife conservation & nature-based tourism from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of Kent at Canterbury (United Kingdom).

Along with the lovely world of wildlife conservation, I also live with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) & this neurological condition is the relapsing and remitting form. Even just thinking about it now and counting, I have had MS for the last 20 years. WOW - That's a very long time and I should be very thankful for what and still am able to do with my career. MS affects every people differently and mine is more living with fatigue every day but is able to move about and get to places without requiring assistance. Walk in the Park certainly is very close as Multiple Sclerosis can make many lose the ability to walk and this surely co-related that my life journey can be very bumpy. I am able to walk and am thankful for that every day.

It has been a long wait to start this platform and finally, I have got around it. Most of all my updates, happenings, and things that I care about and am passionate about will be shared on this blog.

Do leave a comment below as it is always nice to hear from you.

Many thanks

Abhishek (Abhs)

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‘One in a million’ Edinburgh toddler set for rare disease trial in US: Reports Edinburgh Evening News

We were interviewed by the Edinburgh Evening News where they highlighted Anya's rare medical condition. I have attached the report on this post. The Edinburgh Evening News report was written by Kevan Cristie ‘One in a million’ Edinburgh toddler set for rare disease trial in US KEVAN CHRISTIE Katherine Behl with her 18-month daughter, Anya, with dad Abhishek. Pic: Lisa Ferguson The family of an 18-month-old toddler who has a condition so rare it only affects one person in a million are raising funds for a groundbreaking gene therapy project in the US. Anya Behl, suffered her first episode of what would later be diagnosed as Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC) at 10 weeks old in October 2017. Those with the lifelong condition are described as ‘human timebombs’ as the illness which is like having seven diseases at once - including stroke like paralysis and symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, can strike at anytime. Her parents Abhishek and Katherine told how everyth

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Signing up to Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC) UK Newsletter.

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We are so grateful for all the amazing support, messages and generous donations to research from our wonderful family and friends in 2018.  A heartfelt thanks. We have been blown away by your kindness! In February 2018 at 6 months old, Anya was given the diagnosis of Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC) after genetic testing for the ATP1A3 gene. This is an extremely rare condition, affecting one in a million; it arises from a chance, non-inherited error. It is something we had neither heard of nor something we could ever have envisaged our precious first-born having to struggle with. It’s been a very difficult year and we’ve seen symptoms (sometimes life-threatening) that we wouldn’t wish any parent to witness.  AHC has effects beyond the neurological ones and sadly Anya has had breathing and cardiac difficulties too. Almost all children with AHC have physical, cognitive and developmental disabilities across a spectrum. By the age of two 50% have epilepsy; and

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