Bronwyn's Hope for Her Daughters

Bronwyn's battle with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) started when she was diagnosed at just 25, having already witnessed the toll the disease took on her mother. Now a mother herself, Bronwyn worries about her daughters facing the same fate. 

Bronwyn spent her childhood watching her mother live with advancing MS. To support her family through, she became a ‘little mum’ to her younger sister Kylie. Then, when Bronwyn was just 25 years old, she too was told the words, ‘you have MS.’

Her boyfriend Rod first noticed she had started having seizures in her sleep. Bronwyn visited her neurologist following a routine MRI.

“My neurologist simply said to me ‘You have MS.’

“He didn’t see at the time that I was falling apart,” shares Bronwyn. “That I’d lived through my mother’s journey with MS. “After I left his office, I sat at the bus stop for hours and cried.”

After Bronwyn broke off their engagement, Rod reached out to a support worker who came to their home that same week.

“I remember the support worker saying that my MS could be completely different to my mother's,” she said to me ‘MS doesn’t have to stop you from doing things with your life’,” Bronwyn recalls.

“It was only then that I realised that I had treatment options—something that my mother never had.” 

The support and generosity of MS Lotteries supporters like you, powers progress in MS research from the time of Bronwyn’s mum’s diagnosis to the time of her own diagnosis. Despite that encouraging progress, with still no known cure for MS, there is more to be done.

After Bronwyn and Rod were married, they soon welcomed the first of their two daughters, Astrid, followed two years later by Xanthe.

Bronwyn is deeply worried her girls will develop MS too. But thanks to you and the countless others that purchase tickets and donate to fund research into MS, there are many more treatments available to Bronwyn today than a decade ago.

To protect her daughters from the disease, it’s vital we keep up the pace of those discoveries.

"Research for me is about hope. I hope tomorrow will be better than today, for my daughter's sake as much as mine."

Read Bronwyn's full story here.

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