Thread 2. To feel disappointed after reading this in The Observer about the author and her husband from The Salt Path book and film?

[AWanderingFool]

Thread Two for The Salt Path and Raynor Winn/Sally Walker/Sally Winn discussions.

Thread One is here: www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5368194-to-feel-disappointed-after-reading-this-in-the-observer-about-the-author-and-her-husband-from-the-salt-path-book-and-film?

I also didn't have to provide any medical evidence to my charity - just tick a box on a form to say I had the condition

Agree. And I don't care if we derail the thread to talk about it.
When people see me, it means I am ok.
On bad days I am bed bound and can't lift my head off the pillow

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Radio 4 On Your Farm programme from their farm in Cornwall.

I can't see this written anywhere in the main/lead Observer article. The book says Moth had experienced problems 6 years before diagnosis, so it makes sense if one knows the book but it would have been useful for the lead article to make this clear.

They married on Skye in 1986. She was born Sally A Winn in Melton Mowbray in 1962. He was born Timothy R Walker in 1960, probably in Burton-upon-Trent, but there's another Timothy R Walker born in the same quarter of that year somewhere else, so can't say for certain.

Absolutely agree with this

I think he will have been diagnosed with CBD in good faith. It’s a bizarre thing to make up. Surely you’d pick a more common condition and scans and physical signs can’t be faked.

diagnosis is not exact in medicine and Drs can later turn out to be wrong and I expect that’s what happened here. I am sure they were told he had it and did expect him to die.

Just look at Stephen Hawking who survived an unfeasible amount of time for his diagnosis of MND (he was given 2 years and survived for 50!) but obviously was profoundly disabled and not putting it on

It may be that, as with Stephen Hawking, Moth was not re diagnosed because there was as no better fit

I know it's overused as a term but she has narc vibes crawling off her and this is the kind of poor me shit they do. Loved the style of the first book but always got the feeling she was coughing into a handkerchief then looking up through her eyelashes to see who was watching.

I know a couple like these.
Totally respectable on the face of it, make lots of money for "their" charity, which they directly benefit from.
Eco warrier vegans that drive a 4l pick up truck and have their lamb chops delivered by Ocado.

My DH says their strap line should be "Hi, What can you do for us".

But if that were the case their lawyer would have provided a far less waffly and "spiritual" response to the journalist

No lawyer provides a statement that stupid unless their client had nowhere else to go.

Apparently in Landlines she says there are brain scans, one showing deterioration and the next (after the walk/events of Landlines) showing a normal brain. She’s not just claiming that he was diagnosed by process of elimination. She’s also claiming to have verifiable evidence of his improvement. That’s not something that can be handwaved away if it turns out the whole thing is a lie.

This is not how it works. My DH has Parkinson and has some of the markers of atypical Parkinson’s on brain scans which suggests could be CBD or other atypical Parkinson’s. He still hasn’t got this as a diagnosis as he doesn’t present clinically with it and he responds to Parkinson’s meds. I am sorry, but there is no way this man was ever diagnosed with CBD by a neurologist and I find it shocking that they are pretending to.

So they go on the salt path to hide from their debts and problems - not wanting to stay in a village where gossip would be in abundance about them.

They then turn the experience into a book and the book does very well. They don't leave it there though they make a film, but with actors playing their parts. The thing is they are on the tv a few times - do they not think to say no as they want privacy? The abundant tv appearances gives them away and someone somewhere has tipped of the journalist to research their past. It's unlit that the journalist has suddenly decided to investigate them and has probably had someone from their past get in touch as they've seen them on the tv

The trouble is he may not have been in hospital or he may have been in hospital for something relatively trivial. These were people seemingly prepared to hock raffle tickets on a home they didn't own outright and which was about to be possessed by loan sharks. They need to start producing evidence to back up all their stories.

Also cannot happen. It’s nonsense! It’s a degenerative disease!!

I wonder what the story that is ‘Saltpath’ says about the audience in markets the story has been the most successful. It’s also worth noting that the ‘Saltdines’ tour also came off the back of the success of the book. What as an audience are we complicit in.

And there are people on here and elsewhere on social media saying that this added a layer of guilt to an already devastating diagnosis. That lying about this wasn't a victimless crime because it led people to try and walk themselves better and led people to feel guilty if they couldn't. Imagine not just suffering from a devastating terminal illness that takes your mobility but feeling guilty that it was your fault because you didn't walk enough

It looks like he ran the London marathon last year or the year before and it looks like they have raised a lot for the charity.

i think the best thing they could do now is come out and do an interview about his condition- whatever it is. That way there is a good bit of education to the general public about a condition that isn’t well known. They have never kept his condition private in the past so it would be odd to go coy on it now.

They could give his consultant permission to go to the media with a full history and timeline of his diagnosis and treatment.

I didn’t like the book because I felt it was dishonest and a bit whiney when Winn wrote about no help being available and them not wanting to bother their children.
I volunteer in an NT second hand bookshop and recently we had The Salt Path on our display shelf. A visitor whispered to her friend that she didn’t like the book at all and but had had to read it for her book club. I told her that I hadn’t liked it either. We both laughed and said that we felt like the only ones.
Now I know this isn’t true.
I wonder if the Winns/Walkers will challenge any of the Observor’s article?

Exactly - lying about it is utterly despicable. I think this claim alone is enough to show that the CBD story can’t possibly be true. Where are the studies into this miracle of medicine?

Yeah I always think in every photo she looks very pleased with herself for some reason. Knowing that she's playing the public and publishing world like fiddles may be it.

Someone further up the thread or in the previous thread found their marriage registered in Portree in the Isle of Skye

Grow up. Then go and find out how that misogynist rag The Guardian reported wii spa and the Cologne sex attacks. Now that's a scum rag.

This is what I think, unless it's completely made up and that would be something else!