140~ Travelling to Russia for Stem Cell Treatment : Candice Klau's journey with Multiple Sclerosis & HSCT

um i don't know i guess I never really had time I um went for treatment pretty quick but I think a lot of people I think that got to me a lot people will say oh yeah but I know such and such and she was fine oh I know such and such and she died yeah like everyone MS is so different like my friend Anna and I pretty much identical ages I think we have the same amount of lesions I think about 30 each But where they're here, like a millimetre to the right or a millimetre to the left, one of us, like we're completely different in our illness.

So I think people comparing and I think that was hard because I had people in my like really close circle in my family who were like, oh, well, such and such had it and she was fine.

I'm like, but I'm not such and such.

And there's no guarantee I am going to be that person.

Yeah, I can really relate to that with invisible illness.

It's like you can have the exact same diagnosis and have completely different symptoms.

It's not all equal.

And it can be hard to explain that to people who don't know what you're going through.

And yeah, it was that and people just being dismissive because they remember.

But then it was like, People, yeah, but then on the same note, you'd be like, but, you know, our auntie, like, died of this.

Well, not died of MS, but complications from

it.

Oh, yeah, but, and it's like, so people can just be a bit.

Yes.

Dismissive.

Yeah.

And if someone's listening right now who might be navigating a really challenging season, what would you want them to hear?

please just keep a positive mindset.

Like, don't go into a dark, spiraling hole.

Honestly, it will make things worse.

Keep positive.

Your body can heal itself and your mind can heal your body.

look at this treatment so um it's a it was in moscow dr frederico it's a university hospital so it's not some backyard little hospital it's it's like one of the biggest in europe um they have an amazing reputation it's please just look into it there is hope

and when you were in some dark moments and you and you needed to keep that hope up or hope going where did you look to

I think that's why I started doing a lot of my spiritual retreats and I was very thankful.