Sandra McDonough the inventor, founder and Director of the Eye Guide MC
 

"My name is Sandra McDonough and CEO/inventor of Eye Guide MC LTd. I’m a joint owner of the company with my husband Chris, along with two other directors Sandra Worts and Ann Saunders. Eye Guide MC Ltd has a family feel as everyone involved with the company has looked after me over the years. In September we have been working together for two years.

"I have lived in Spalding, Lincolnshire for over twenty five years and have had Parkinson’s for 19 years. I am now in the advanced stages of my disease and without the Eye Guide MC I would be very debilitated. Prior to my Parkinson's diagnosis I came from an accounting background specialising in payroll and small business."

"I have been a fund raiser for Parkinson’s UK raising thousands of pounds for the charity.  I now sit on the committee of the Spalding Parkinson’s Branch."

"From a small age I was inventing and experimenting and this eventually led me to invent my biggest achievement which is Eye Guide MC. This is an aid to improve the quality of life for Parkinson’s people and other neurological conditions. This aid and invention has helped me to regain my independence to enable me to work again alongside my husband and two incredible friends."

"I feel very proud that I have managed to set up a new company and helping push it through the Pandemic, it has not been easy but was helped by obtaining two grants one from Lincoln University and the other from Parkinson’s UK."

"We have recently set up another company called Brenchley House Neurological Research Centre, and it is run with one of our directors Ann Saunders a Parkinson’s Nurse Specialist, here in Long Sutton. The Neurological Research Centre helps us look at where else the Eye Guide can be used and run trials on other neurological conditions."

"Going forward my goals are to see our five year plan be achieved by seeing Eye Guide MC become a recognised aid throughout the medical community for Parkinson's Disease, to receive recognition with Brenchley House Neurological Research Centre and seeing it grow and develop to help other neurological conditions. "

"Overall our ultimate goal would be to set up a specialist centre for Parkinson's People in Lincolnshire for people to come for specialised respite and get full medical care from doctors and nurses and physiotherapists who specialise in Parkinson's Disease. This would be the first of its kind here in the UK and is desperately needed."

"Finally yet importantly I feel my biggest achievement is still standing on my feet after 19 years of Parkinson’s Disease. I truly feel that the Eye Guide MC has reignited my passion for life and to help other people with Parkinson's and other neurological conditions. "

Ann Saunders - Director

"My name is Ann Saunders, I'm 46 years young and Lincolnshire born and bred. I am married to an amazing man called Alastair and we have the most beautiful daughter called Darcey.
I started my nurse training in 2004 and qualified as an Registered Nurse Adult in 2008."

"I have had a varied career from community nursing, hospice and now Eye Guide MC.
I became a Parkinson's Nurse Specialist in 2014 and found my passion, I worked for 6 years in the NHS in this post and left to join the Eye Guide MC team in July 2021 as a director and clinical lead Nurse."

"I am now proud to say I am a director and share holder of her company Eye Guide MC Ltd and also her partner in Brenchley House Neurological Research Centre, in Long Sutton, Spalding, I joined the company in July 2021 enabling me to work along side Sandra and her husband and the Eye Guide MC team using my expertise with help and advice I am still a registered state nurse enabling to keep my passion for help people very much a live."

"Sandra came to me first with an invention that helped her control her Parkinson’s, I quickly realised this could help many other Parkinson’s people so started to get involved with Sandra to take this device to those that needed it."

"I felt compelled to join the team as I had been Sandra's Nurse for six years and saw how this aid had transformed her life. I knew that this could and would help so many other people with Parkinson's."

"I am beyond excited to see where this goes and I'm looking forward to being part of a change for the better."