Ready To Be Real by Síle Seoige
Jun 11, 2026 · 54 min · 11 segments
Topics covered : Multiple sclerosis, childfree by choice, travel, freedom, simple living. This week, I sit down with author Susan Bennett to chat about her memoir, One Year. Susan and her husband…
Síle SeoigeHost
Talk to me about life in your 20s and your 30s, you know, before there was any sense of knowing that you had MS.
You know that there's something not quite right on the edge, but you just ignore it for a while.
I'm sure it was four or five years of, "I'm not very well," you know, that kind of-
So then you try to get to see your GP, and you try to talk about things, that this isn't great, and it could be...
You know, they would say things like, "Is it stress? Is it women's problems?" All the things that you kind of, you know-
Talk to me about life in your 20s and your 30s, you know, before there was any sense of knowing that you had MS.
You know that there's something not quite right on the edge, but you just ignore it for a while.
I'm sure it was four or five years of, "I'm not very well," you know, that kind of-
So then you try to get to see your GP, and you try to talk about things, that this isn't great, and it could be...
You know, they would say things like, "Is it stress? Is it women's problems?" All the things that you kind of, you know-
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