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DETERMINED: Faye Braddock hopes the stem cell treatment will allow her to be a fully active mother to her children.
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‘My children need me’
A young Howick mother is battling a life-long illness that has no cure...but she has a chance at halting the illness in its tracks. The Times’ Kelly Teed speaks to her about life with the illness and the potentially life-changing treatment. By KELLY TEED
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ost of us know the feeling of walking into a room and forgetting what we went in for, or not being able to think of the right word in a sentence, or being so tired all you want to do is sleep. For most of us, those are mild inconveniences. But for sufferers of Multiple Sclerosis, those sim-
ple struggles can be a whole new level of debilitating. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a long-lasting autoimmune disease that affects the brain, spinal cord and central nervous system. It causes the immune system to attack the myelin which wraps around nerve fibres to protect them. Without this outer shell, nerves become damaged which in turn prevents the brain from
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