Now, at 42, she still trains 11 times a week. Nathalie began her international rowing career in 2009 and has won multiple world titles, including two Paralympic medals-silver in London and bronze in Tokyo. However, that has not dampened her competitive spirit. She said to herself, “We’ll see what happens, and you’ll manage it bit by bit.”īy 2005, Nathalie’s MS had progressed to the point of needing a wheelchair. So, she decided to stop comparing herself to others with MS. Her neurologist explained that the disease evolves differently for everyone, and her situation might end up being serious or very mild. “That glimpse of the future was direct and traumatic,” she says. However, learning more about the disease-and the realities of disease progression-scared her.
“Because when you have signs and you don’t know why, it’s worse than knowing, in the end, what you have.” “Ultimately, the diagnosis was more of a relief, than a shock,” she says. Nathalie was a teenager and a competitive athlete when she noticed her first symptoms of MS, but it would take four years of “limbo” before she was diagnosed. Courtesy of Sanofi Nathalie - Pennes Mirabeau, France (diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in 2002) Nathalie is an award-winning rower with multiple international titles. Gina says that while there’s still a lot of education about MS needed, she feels positive about the future of MS because there’s so much research being done.
She’d soon learn she was experiencing optic neuritis-her first symptom of MS. When her youngest son was 4 months old, Gina started having problems with her eye. Courtesy of Sanofi Gina-Hamburg, Germany (diagnosed with relapsing multiple sclerosis in 2017) Their journeys demonstrate how MS can look different for different people and interestingly, how the language used to talk about the disease can greatly impact how people understand their realities. To better understand what navigating life with MS really looks like, three women shared their MS stories with us. Some people with MS have mild symptoms that worsen slowly but sometimes improve, while others can have severe symptoms that drastically alter their daily lives.Īll people with MS share some things in common, however, such as the need to stay informed on the ever-evolving research, find various lines of support and try to remain hopeful as they continue living with the disease. There’s no set pattern or standard progression of the disease, so each person’s experience is unique. Ironically, the only real constant for people living with MS is change. Those who truly love liberty should realize that we're at a tipping point where the best way to persevere it is to fight back with accountability instead of defiance. Over the past year and a half, Americans have had to sacrifice a lot of their personal freedom because of a virus that thrives on a lack of accountability. Those who doubt that freedom without responsibility leads to authoritarianism should look no further than recent history. You cannot go and not put the mask on because when you breathe you can infect someone else, and you can infect someone that then gets sick and may die." You cannot say, 'No one is going to tell me that I'm going to stop here, I'm going to go right through it.' Yeah, then you kill someone else, and it is your doing. They put the traffic light in the intersection so someone doesn't kill someone else by accident. It's like, no different than a traffic light. "You cannot just say, 'I have the right to do x, y, and z,' when you affect other people. The "Terminator" star used an analogy involving stoplights that everyone can understand. Because with freedom comes obligations and responsibilities," he said. "The only way we prevent it is we get vaccinated, we wear masks, we do social distancing, washing your hands all of the time, and not just to think about, 'Well, my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.' No, screw your freedom.
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