multiple sclerosis’.As I sat in the treatment room taking in his words, I had no idea what this meant but I could tell from my parents’ reaction – they broke down in tears – that it was bad.
I naively asked if I would need chemotherapy and how they would cure it.I was so confused because I hadn’t heard of MS and I felt anxious for my poor parents.
My doctors told us they had never seen MS in a 15-year-old. It is a degenerative condition caused by your immune system attacking your central nervous system, and most people are diagnosed in their 20s or 30s with symptoms often taking many years to develop.There was no information on teenage patients, nothing about treatment or management for symptoms.