Five years into my diagnosis and here I am running the London marathon... GO ON LASS!

I was diagnosed in 2019 but unlike many other patients, I was familiar with the condition as my mother has suffered immensely with it over the years. It came as a huge shock at first; I couldn’t understand how a “healthy person like me” could end up with a chronic condition like Multiple Sclerosis. I was naive, I guess …

I spent the first few months frantically searching for a sign of hope. I wanted to see people like me living well with MS and enjoying a normal life. I desperately wanted to see a different narrative from the one that told me that my condition will progress and that I would end up in a wheelchair. Sadly, there wasn’t much hope out there. So here I am, running this marathon because I want to be that for someone, I want the MS community to see me and MY MS running the full 42km, and feel inspired.

What started off as a terrifying and unpredictable journey has soon become one that I have embraced and welcomed into my life. I turned my fear into discipline and l live my life in a way that keeps me focused on my heath, fighting this disease with every ounce of strength that I have. I am living well with MS.

I am running this marathon for me, my mum and for all of you out there who have been affected by MS in one way or another. Pls support me by sharing my story and donating to the MS Society. I have no doubt that this experience will be one of the toughest mental and physical battles that I have ever faced … but I am ready for it!

Now watch these bedouin legs GO!!!

Love Sammia xx