Stories

From the inside

These stories are about life with MS: what it takes to keep moving, and why the world around us matters as much as the body we live in.

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A man in a white T-shirt sits on a wooden bench, looking out over sunlit green hills and tall grass

You Don't Need a Cure to Be Whole

It took me nine years to believe that. For almost a decade, I lived with my diagnosis like it was a secret I had to protect.

A doctor in a white coat frowns at a sheet of paper, holding up two fingers, against a red wall

“So it looks like MS.”

When you are first told, “You have multiple sclerosis,” it doesn't just land softly. It hits hard. It lingers. One minute, you're sitting in a quiet medical office. The next, your life has been split into two parts. Before and after.