MS, Mum and Mulley
No doubt some of you are coming to the site this morning via Mulley.net. Welcome, wipe your feet, come on in.
After Damien contacted me about his diagnosis with MS, I had it in my head to make use of his high profile to raise awareness of the condition as best we could.
After I got home in February we talked about it, and decided to collaborate on an article for the Sunday Business Post about our different experiences with MS – his as a person with MS, me as someone with MS in the family. Mum (pictured right, LONG before diagnosis, and my arrival on the scene) had a brutal battle with it, a fate which I’m sure Damien won’t suffer as he’s been diagnosed nice and early.
Writing the piece was therapy for me. Dealing with Mum’s MS was traumatic in the extreme, and having her staring back from the newspaper at me yesterday was very difficult, more difficult than putting it together in the first place. Hopefully some good will come of it and people won’t be too terrified by our experience with MS, but likewise, will realise they’re not alone. There’s people like us, the fabulous folk at the MS Society, and plenty of others here to help. Thanks to Damien for his input, and for sitting, looking pensively into the distance, for photos to go with it. Mulley (on the) rocks.
The article is here.
Damien is here.
The MS Society are here. Go donate.
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Hi there, my name is maureen and I’m doing a project on MS. I would be delighted if you can help me in any way possible with a few questions that I need information on: ie, physical/ functional effects of MS? and a few more.
Hope you can help me out.
Regards,
Maureen
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