NO ONE SHOULD FACE MS ALONE!
Can you imagine waking up one day unable to do the everyday things you would usually take for granted? Like not being able to see properly (or at all), unable to get out of bed, walk to the phone to call someone – anyone – or live a life without pain?
All of a sudden, your world has changed.
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic and often debilitating disease which attacks the central nervous system (the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves). It is the most common neurological disease in young adults and often attacks people at a time in their lives when they are planning families and building a career. Three out of four people living with MS are women.
With your support, we can allow people living with multiple sclerosis access to vital support services, like MS Connect, MS Peer Support and MS Employment Support Programs. We’ll also be helping bring new treatments closer to reality, investing in repairing myelin damage to restore function that has been lost for people with progressive forms of the disease.
On behalf of over 37,756 Aussies living with multiple sclerosis – THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
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My reason to walk for MS
Monday 16th MarMy Why for Walking for MS
I’m taking part in this MS walk for two incredibly important people in my life.
On the 30th of March 2025, my daughter — just 24 years old — was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Her journey to that diagnosis was long, painful, and far more difficult than it should have been. She saw seven different doctors who didn’t believe something more serious was happening. It wasn’t until her second hospital presentation that one doctor finally listened, trusted her instincts, and contacted John Hunter Hospital. They took her in for scans, and at last we had the answers she needed — answers no parent ever wants to hear.
Before her diagnosis, MS had already begun affecting major moments in her life. During her hens weekend, she struggled to walk properly, and none of us yet knew why. Then came her wedding in September. We had to prepare ourselves for the possibility that she might not be able to walk down the aisle. Thanks to the medication she started, she found the strength to walk — not just down the aisle, but with her children beside her and finally into the arms of her husband. It was a moment of courage, love, and determination that I will never forget.
Watching my child suffer, knowing something was wrong and feeling powerless to stop her pain, was heartbreaking. As a nurse, I’ve cared for people living with MS, yet when it was my own daughter, I felt helpless. Nothing prepares you for seeing your child go through that kind of fear and uncertainty.
And she isn’t the only one in our family facing this disease. Another relative of mine was diagnosed with MS in November 2023 at just 30 years old. Two diagnoses in such a short time has changed the way I see the importance of awareness, support, and research.
So I’m walking for them — for their strength, their courage, and their futures. I’m walking for everyone living with MS and for the support they deserve. Every step I take is for the people who fight this battle every day, and for the hope that one day, no one will have to.
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