‘Like being in a car hurtling towards a wall’

ERIC DORAN celebrated his 31st birthday earlier this month but there is little to cheer about in his life.

Eric suffers from Freidreich’s Ataxia, a progressive condition that affects his balance and has become desperately tough to live with.

“I’ve known since my teenage years what lay before me, that I was going to become more dependent in so many years and there isn’t a damn thing I can do to prevent it. It’s like being in a car that is hurtling towards a brick wall,” he said.