Today marks national Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Day and 9,000 people in Ireland are currently living with the disease. Speaking on the Joe Finnegan Show this morning, Orla Marron from Carrickmacross highlighted how it's been six years since she was diagnosed with MS.
Orla pointed out that the symptoms began with a pain down the side of her face and progressed to fatigue, and then an inability to move her arms and legs. The local mother of two said after a couple of months of suffering in silence, she went and got checked out, and was subsequently diagnosed with the illness.
Orla added how the diagnosis was like being "hit with a train" but her body has begun to respond following the third medical treatment which she began two years ago. "I began the third treatment in the New Year and it has worked for me.
"Yes, there are some side effects, I go in for infusion to Beaumont Hospital once a month; a few days after my infusion I might have a few wee symptoms, nothing major, but I will have a good three weeks and I will take those three weeks anytime. I felt like me again for the first time in two years; I'm absolutely delighted and I'm still on it," she said.
