When my mum was twenty, the same age I am now, she was diagnosed with Relapse Remitting Multiple Sclerosis. She had to give up work, friends disappeared. Through my childhood I can't remember her not being ill. Her health worsened, and she developed the Secondary Progressive stage of the disease, where there are not periods of rest or good health.

Despite suffering, a lot, she always did it with dignity, until she passed away in 2007, age 45.

I'm doing a sponsored silence from 3rd December 2012, 00:00, to 8th December 2012, 00:00, to raise both money and awareness for the disease. 100,000 people in the UK currently suffer from MS; there's no cure, and scientists do not yet know how it develops. More money is needed to give towards the MS Society, so that people like my mum can have a better support network and chance of, one day, being able to beat it.

Thanks :) x