Chelsea Miller

I'M TAKING THE CHALLENGE TO FIGHT MS!

No fun runs for good causes this year 😞🦵🩼

But lucky I have other charitable & challenge inclined friends to rope me in to alternatives Lisa Bodrero 

This year we'll be doing a 24-hour swimathon to raise money for MS 🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️

Y'all might remember that I somehow made it through a very hungover run on my 30th birthday for this cause that is so important. I'll reshape snippets of that post below;

In 2021 I was tested for multiple sclerosis. I didn't receive a diagnosis, but I committed to fundraising and sharing some awareness because I knew next to nothing about it then.

My experience:

I was getting regular heat sensitive numbness in my left pinky.

Which turned in to numbness and tingling past up past my left elbow.

And then, complete numbness and tingling of my left leg.

All becoming more and more frequent.

Occasionally, it would reach my face.

I've long lived with migraines, vertigo, and I just shake a lot.

The testing was intense, expensive, and the waiting was scary.

I was lucky that I had a handful of people to help me through, a wonderful sister who came to all of my appointments.

I was experiencing my body be not in my control which felt so violating, and was expecting to be told it would only get worse.

So I needed some control back - I googled, I searched journal articles, I watched docos, I found instagrams. I needed to feel empowered. And boy, was that a can of worms. 

I started an antiflamatroy diet to help and felt amazing - but it was also a balance of my quality of life to go live now vs. not be in a wheelchair later. 

I have since met one particular lady living with MS who is a fierce leader, community minded, and a great friend, with MS not at all a leading factor of her as a person, proving how full of a life can still be lived!

That said, not only is there no cure, the treatment options feel sub par - and here is where the help is needed!! If you scan spare maybe the cost of a cup of coffee in this horrendous cost of living crisis, it would be much appreciated 🙏❤️