My name is Amanda, I was born and raised in the Spruce Grove, Stony Plain area. I am married and have 2 amazing children. After the birth of our second child I was diagnosed with Relapsing and Remitting MS. I fought and worked a lot on my diet to recover from the first attack. I recovered and then about 3 1/2 years later I had another attack. This time it effected my lower extremities. I went from working full time, being really busy with our children, to having to take every once of energy I had to walk to the bathroom. The daily actives like driving to the store or making lunch, became a huge task. My husband has been amazing during this rough time in our life. He has had to work and do a lot around the home that I could not do; which at times was everything. I love him so much!!! During the past summer I attended physio and have been working really hard on getting my strength back in my legs. I can walk with walking sticks now & know that if I keep working on them it will get better with time. I have currently had my drivers licence suspended, and have had to depend on other people to drive me around. Thank You so much to everyone who has dropped off or picked up our kids from school, or taken me to one of my many appointments.
Over the past year life has really changed for our whole family. It's not about what we have gone through that we need to focus on, but where we go from here.
