A PARKINSON’S sufferer has successfully located the medical student who helped him after his medication failed on a train.
He later tweeted about his ordeal, in the hope of finding out who it was that came to his aid.
And following his appeal on Twitter, where his tweet was re-tweeted 28,000 times, he has now located the person, Rebecca te Water Naude, who is a medical student at Oxford University.
"I am so pleased that I found her," said Mr Murray.
"She is a amazing person. I had been on the train back from London to Cardiff. I took my regular medication, but it failed.
“I was stuck in my seat. I then struggled to get down the aisle.It took me forever to get through the door.
"But it was a sliding door and as I took so long it kept closing on me. I thought I wasn't going to be able to get off in time.
“Rebecca saw me trying to get through the sliding door. She held it open for me and asked me if I needed any help.
“I told her I had Parkinson’s and she said that she understood as she was a medical student.
"She helped me off the train and helped me to a seat on the station. She called over the station staff to help me."
He added: "I told her how much I appreciated what she did."
In an article on the Oxford University website, Ms Naude said: "When I saw David he was standing up, frozen, just a few minutes away from Cardiff where I was getting off so I asked him if he was okay.
"He told me he had Parkinson’s and his medication had stopped working, so I offered to help him get off the train. We chatted about what he had been up to and I told him as a medical student, I was interested in Parkinson’s. When the train stopped I helped him get onto the platform, where we asked the station staff for a wheelchair so he could go and meet his wife.
"It really was just the natural thing to do, and when I saw the tweet I was mostly just pleased to hear he got home safely."
Parkinson's is a progressive neurological condition. This means that it causes problems in the brain and gets worse over time.
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