Multiple sclerosis is only one part of my busy life

Laura Lee is doing a Phd, loves yoga and running and oh, she has multiple sclerosis. Helen O’Callaghan meets a 25-year-old who is refusing to let it define who she is.

Multiple sclerosis is only one part of my busy life

Lying on her couch one Sunday evening four years ago, Laura Lee felt tingling in her hands. “Kind of like pins and needles,” says the 25-year-old PhD student.

The sensation brought her back to an event that happened in January 2010. Then 21, she’d fallen on very bad ice. “That night, I started having pins and needles down one side of my body. It progressed into quite bad numbness — I couldn’t feel one half of my body. The numbness quickly spread into the other half.”

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