‘You are made to feel like a parasite sucking out of those around you’

LORRAINE LEAKE gets embarrassed having to fight for her rights to home help and other support services.

She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) just after the second of her two children was born 11 years ago.

The debilitating neurological disease has restricted her to a wheelchair for the last six years, leaving kids Angela, 12, and Joseph, 11, and her music teacher husband Joe to do most of the housework.