November 2003

Country of Residence: USA
Year of Diagnosis: 1980
Occupation: Owner/Producer/Director of a digital media company
Type of MS: Relapsing Remitting

Sue Lawrence-Reeder has received three very prestigious awards this year for her work in the video and film industry, which is quite an accomplishment as she set up her own company only two years ago. Sue refuses to let her MS stand in the way of life and work.

October 2003

Country of Residence: UK
Diagnosed: October 2001
Type of MS: Recently changed from Relapsing Remitting to Secondary Progressive

Greg was diagnosed with MS when he was 26. It made him want to jump out of a plane. However after he learnt more about the illness, received help from the Bedford MS centre and realised that it was possible to enjoy life after a diagnosis, he decided that he would wear a parachute on the way down.

September 2003

Country of Residence: Norway
Year of Diagnosis: 1975
Occupation : Partially retired, but works in family business

Peter is Vice-Chair of the Norwegian MS Society, the Norwegian representative on the People with MS International Committee and the PwMSIC representative on the Scientific Oversight Committee of the Sylvia Lawry Centre for MS Research

August 2003

Country of Residence: Zimbabwe
Year of Diagnosis: 1978
Occupation : Part-time poet
Type of MS: No-one has ever told me, but I have been stable for the last fourteen years.

May 2003

Year of Diagnosis: 1996
Occupation: Office Worker
Country of Residence: Ireland
Type of MS: Relapsing / Remitting

June 2003

Occupation: Student
Country of Residence: Japan/USA

April 2003

Year of Diagnosis: 1998
Country of Residence: France
Type of MS: Relapsing / Remitting

March 2003

Year of Diagnosis: July 2002
Occupation: Global Project Leader and Web Architect
Country of Residence: USA
Type of MS: Relapsing / Remitting

February 2003

Date of Birth: 14.10.53
Year of Diagnosis: 1978
Occupation: Accountant
Country of Residence: England
Type of MS: Who knows? But relapsing/remitting initially

January 2003

Year of Diagnosis: Officially 1999, but symptoms started in 1998
Occupation: Ex IT Manager turned Cattle Farmer
Country of Residence: England
Type of MS: Relapsing / Remitting