EVERYBODY HAS BAD days. Days filled with malfunctioning alarm clocks, traffic jams, irritating workmates and unrelenting rain that soaks through to the skin. Multiple sclerosis (MS) sufferers have different kinds of bad days. For them, such days are filled with unrelenting pain, spasms, numbness, blinding headaches, blurred vision and a battle to simply put one foot in front of another — an unpalatable cocktail of agonising symptoms that varies for every sufferer.
Sharon Harding has many bad days, each one medication-filled in order to make her MS as acquiescent as it is possible for it to be, for this is a cold-hearted, brutal disease that wrecks lives and rides roughshod over once healthy, happy humans and their cherished plans, not infrequently consigning them to wheelchairs.
“I could walk out the front door tomorrow and my legs could stop working and I would be in a chair, but I'll deal with that if
