#balo ms

I’m taking part in The May 50K challenge this May to raise funds for life-changing research into multiple sclerosis!

MS strikes young people in the prime of their lives. The average age of diagnosis is around 30 years old, although myself and many others I know have been much younger. There is no known cure, yet.

With how amazing and fast the medical field and the knowlage we gain evolves I hope in my lifetime to see MS be a thing of the past. As an example of how much this research is truly impacting on our live in th MS community let me share a part of my story:

Five years.

If I had been diagnosed five years earlier(and I could've been since I had been exhibiting symtoms for well over a decade) I would be dead right now.

The kind of MS I have was a death sentence only /Five Years/ prior to my diagnosis but thanks to how fast medical science progressed and the timing of when my symptoms were noticed(thanks to some "awesome" seizures)I am here now, alive and breathing.

At the time of my diagnosis there was no treatment I could take to manage the symptoms, all the doctors could do was prescribe strong anti-epileptic medication to prevent seizures but that medication didn't prevent the damage, the demyelination and subsequent haemorrhaging, that caused the seizures in the first place.

But! Two years after my diagnosis there had come a new medicine that I was abe to take and that managed my symptoms for nearly a decade, now when that one stopped working(as is sadly the usual with autoimmune disorders) I have almost six different medicines to chose from to treat my rare form of MS.

In such a short time so much has changed and it gives me so much hope that we can oneday be free of this illness.

So please donate, participate yourself, spread the word and please support my challenge to leave MS where it belongs, in the past far behind us.

Your donation will support research into the prevention, treatment and finding a cure for multiple sclerosis to change lives.

Thank you!