Get involved during MS Awareness Week
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Mine is one of the millions of families who have joined the movement to end multiple sclerosis. I'm asking for your help in changing the lives of people like me living with MS.
Every hour of every day, someone is told "You have MS," a chronic disease of the central nervous system for which there is no cure. MS interrupts the flow of information between the brain and the body and stops people from moving. I heard those devastatingly frightening words over 23 years ago. I gave up teaching back then to give what energy I had to my family. I am one of the fortunate ones in that I still walk unassisted. But every day I know that tomorrow that situation may change. Every hour of every day I know that another attack may take away my ability to move. In Wisconsin alone, more than 10,000 people live with the disease - that's one of the highest rates of MS in the country.
MS Awareness Week takes place March 8 to 14. The mayor of Brookfield and the village president of Elm Grove have signed proclamations declaring March 8 to 14 MS Awareness Week. I encourage everyone to join the movement to create a world free of multiple sclerosis.
It only takes a few minutes to make a difference in the lives of the millions of people worldwide who live with this disease. Check out the Web site of the Wisconsin Chapter of the National MS Society and see what opportunities await you.
Here are a few simple things you can do:
• Visit wisMS.org or call (800) 242-3358 (toll-free in Wisconsin) to learn more about MS.
• Tell 10 people that MS Awareness Week is March 8 to 14, and ask them to tell 10 people they know.
• Sponsor a walker or cyclist in a Walk MS or Bike MS event, or participate yourself.
• Come to the Milwaukee Wave Game on Sunday or the Milwaukee Bucks Game on March 14. Discounted tickets are available and a portion of each ticket sold will go to the Wisconsin Chapter.
• Wear orange during the week of March 8 and let anyone who asks know that you wear it in honor of those with MS.
Progress on MS can't wait. Move It during MS Awareness Week and move us closer to a world free of MS.
Jane Jacobson
Elm Grove
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