Our Story
The name MS:OK came from a group meeting at Glasgow’s brilliant Revive MS Support, a charity that provides all kinds of therapies free of charge for people with MS and their carers.
Whilst filming at Revive MS Support for ‘Our Big MS Adventure,’ Elizabeth Kinder and Sophie Corbett joined in a group counselling discussion. Alan, leading the session, posed the question. “So, You’ve a diagnosis of MS. OK. Now what? Black hole…” pretty much summing up what happens. We wanted to provide a resource to help get out of that hole. Or better still avoid it altogether.
So it’s MS:OK…Now what? Let’s do what we can to make that ‘Now what?’ OK.
When I was diagnosed with relapsing remitting multiple-sclerosis in May 2007, I had very little idea what this meant.
Convinced I had a brain tumour, I felt like skipping out of my meeting with the consultant. “It’s good news!” I said to my friend Marguerite who’d come as moral support. “I don’t have cancer! I just have MS!” Marguerite looked aghast. “Oh my God.” She said. “How long before you’re completely paralysed and in a wheelchair? Quick, there’s your doctor. Ask him.”