ITV Yorkshire
Imagine a healthy and alert mind trapped inside a body that can’t move. You can think and feel but can’t hug your partner or hold your children: that’s the devastating reality of Motor Neurone Disease (MND).
Thirty year old John Bell is one of the youngest people to suffer from MND. He used to be a semi-professional football player and was looking forward to the future with his childhood sweetheart, Charlotte. Now, John can’t walk, dress or feed himself. As John’s condition worsens, Charlotte comes across a glimmer of hope and in a last attempt to help arrest his condition they travel to China to receive controversial foetal stem cell therapy.
Trapped Inside My Body follows Charlotte and John on their quest to find help with John’s heartbreaking condition.
Any attempt to stop John’s rapid deterioration or even reverse the damage caused by MND would make such a difference to their lives. In the last four years they’ve accepted that they will only see John’s symptoms worsening, so to be suddenly given hope for a future to look forward to changes everything.
Authored by Charlotte, the film gives a stark and honest account of the couple’s agonizing battle with this totally debilitating disease. Her positivity, desperation, love and compassion make this an emotional and often distressing documentary.
Trapped Inside My Body won a bronze award in the 'Documentary of the Year' category at the ITV News Awards 2005
In memory of John Bell.