Image: Marc O'Sullivan Image: Marc O'Sullivan A CAMPAIGN HAS begun to fundraise thousands to try to keep the country’s only respite centre for people with Multiple Sclerosis for an extra 10 weeks a year.
Multiple Sclerosis, a central nervous system condition, results in symptoms that can vary massively from fatigue and numbness, to memory loss and sometimes temporary blindness. The condition can manifest itself in a number of different ways depending on the severity of the disease and the person who has it. There are around 8,000 people in Ireland with MS.Karen Hynes was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting MS on her 20th birthday. With relapsing and remitting MS, you might experience little to no symptoms for a while, but might experience a relapse, or a really significant worsening of symptoms for 24 hours or up to a week.
“Walking is not the easiest now, I use a walking stick, I have a wheelchair, but I’m fully mobile,” she said, adding that the walking stick is “there if needs be”. “We are treated like royalty, we’re treated to luxury” Karen says. “The staff must have been handpicked, [for] their patience, their tolerance – they’re fantastic. We tell them what we want and what we need – and it just means the world to us.
A worthy story, well done 👏 is there anything that people around the country can do to help this? Is there a petition for example? Thanks
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