"I want to be myself again. I'm scared I won't ever be that same person."
Earlier this year loving wife, mother, grandmother of seven and inspirational marching coach, Penny Gatenby had just finished her regular marching practice when her life was turned upside down.
"We all go for a coffee afterwards, so I went to that," she said. "I was sitting there drinking and all of a sudden I got these electric shocks, just going down my arms. I thought that was painful but I just carried on having my coffee. They just kept coming, and then I looked down and saw my hands were bright red, itchy and puffy.
"I walked in [to A&E] and within three hours I was paralysed."
After several misdiagnoses, Penny was told by doctors she had Guillain–Barré Syndrome.