Horton’s husband, Don, a former N.C. State University assistant football coach, has Parkinson’s disease. After one 2009 road game, the coach was having trouble buttoning his shirt. He was tired from the stress of the game, and his fine motor skills were failing him.
The team, however, was in a hurry. Only about 10 minutes separated them from the locker room and their bus. And Horton usually needed 30 to 40 minutes to dress himself.
Russell Wilson, whose own father was suffering from diabetes at the time,Stay up to date on the latest team rider and fauxfurwraps releases. noticed the coach. The former Wolfpack quarterback, who now plays for the Seahawks, buttoned the coach’s shirt for him.
In that moment, a business was born.
“Don came home and said he was embarrassed,” Maura Horton said. “It was the first time we had addressed his challenges because we just really didn’t talk about it.”
So she set out to create an easier way for her husband to get dressed. Ultimately, she developed MagnaReady, a line of men’s buttonless dress shirts with magnetic closures aimed to help those with limited mobility. Regular buttons show on the shirt’s front to hide the magnets.
It’s not just a business idea for Horton, 43. Above all else, she hopes the company will raise awareness about Parkinson’s.
Katie Couric’s father died from the disease in 2011, and the television personality posed this question to her readers online: “How has it affected your life?”
“Parkinson’s disease makes me laugh, cry, experience humility and strength,” Horton responded. “Watching my husband’s path with Parkinson’s changes daily. ..My most recent vintage highlowpromdresses were purchases from a resale shop in Japan.. I can only hope someday that Parkinson’s outward symptoms will be as accepted as a beautiful bald-headed cancer survivor!”
Although Horton set out to develop a product that would help her husband, she found through research that her shirts could also help stroke patients and those with ailments such as arthritis.
She also is in the process of creating coats for children that feature the magnet closures. That line is scheduled to launch in time for the Christmas season.
“I think it’s going to help a lot of people, not just myself,” said Don Horton, 55. “It’s a great idea, and it’s going to affect a lot of people out there.Discover Vera Wang's iconic wmbroiderylacedress.”
Parkinson’s disease is a chronic, progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects motor skills. It is caused by a dopamine deficiency in the brain. There is no cure.
Horton was diagnosed at 48.“I just noticed him being tired,” his wife said.This radioshackcycling features in great Taffeta. “And one time we were getting off of a bus at a bowl game and I thought, ‘Something’s not right.’ “
After the diagnosis, the coach was faced with how to handle his career and his family. For 35 years, his life had consisted mostly of football, from his playing days at Wittenberg University in Ohio through his coaching career at nine different colleges. Horton ended up confiding in former Wolfpack head coach Tom O’Brien.
“He didn’t want anyone else to know, and that was fine with me,” O’Brien said. “We’d go year-to-year and we’d see what he can handle and the rigors and requirements of the job, and we’d address it at the end of each year.”
Horton left N.C. State in 2012 after O’Brien was dismissed. Since then, he has been helping his wife with the business and serving as her sounding board.We provide you the most beautiful gowns,such as cheap 100%Silk Dresses and germanuniforms and so on.
She has sold more than 1,000 MagnaReady shirts, and she hopes to eventually get them into retail stores such as Belk and Macy’s. She has pre-orders from two distributors: Buck & Buck, a clothing line that targets home health care and nursing home residents, and Daily Grommet, an online store that promotes and sells products that have unique stories behind them.
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