Speaker 1: Girls. You know, I've been in my Hot Girl walk era.
Speaker 1: I've been running. I was looking at joining a run club.
Speaker 2: You've got a headband, I got a headband, I got
Speaker 2: so you've got all the gear, no idea.
Speaker 1: I got all the active wear, and this weekend I'm
Speaker 1: putting it on and doing it all for a good cause.
Speaker 1: I'm walking this year in the MS Walk, Run and Roll.
Speaker 1: It's a brilliant initiative and it's something that is very
Speaker 1: personal to me, very close to home. Very recently, my
Speaker 1: beautiful sister Becky was diagnosed with MS, and you guys
Speaker 1: were following along in that journey because it really has happened.
Speaker 1: In the last couple of months. She was diagnosed with MS,
Speaker 1: she lost her first baby, she had her first first miscarriage,
Speaker 1: first baby in the family, all within the same month period,
Speaker 1: four weeks.
Speaker 2: Can you tell her?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Tell everyone that's listening that might not know what MS.
Speaker 1: Is, Okay, So. MS. Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, often
Speaker 1: very debilitating disease which attacks the central nervous system, which
Speaker 1: is the brain, spinal cord, and the optic nerves. It's
Speaker 1: the most common neurological disease in young adults. And often
Speaker 1: attacks people at times in their lives when they're planning families,
Speaker 1: building a career. Really does strike around that thirty to
Speaker 1: forty year old period, and it often affects women more
Speaker 1: so than men.
Speaker 2: And they don't really know the cause, do they.
Speaker 3: It's one of those things that just sort of happens
Speaker 3: and you don't really know why, and there's not really
Speaker 3: a lot to stop it.
Speaker 1: Is that that's the hardest part, and I think that's
Speaker 1: what's been so scary. I don't want to talk for Becky.
Speaker 1: I've spoken to her. She's happy for me to talk
Speaker 1: about it, and we're doing the walk and the run
Speaker 1: on the weekend. We're all excited. But she went in
Speaker 1: and out of doctors for years with the same symptoms.
Speaker 1: Nothing changed. She had bizarre optical changes. She would feel
Speaker 1: stroke like symptoms, She couldn't walk for days, she would
Speaker 1: her mood would be up and down, her speech would change.
Speaker 1: All these things that they'd put down to stress, they'd
Speaker 1: put down to hormones, being a young woman, the miscarriage
Speaker 1: they put it down to, and from doctor to doctor,
Speaker 1: to neurologists to neurologists, like tears and stress, which only
Speaker 1: makes these symptoms. Worse, she finally got a diagnosis of MS,
Speaker 1: which isn't even there's no blood markers really that say
Speaker 1: you've got MS. You've got this, you've got this, you've
Speaker 1: got this, knowing all that you think it's MS.
Speaker 4: I know you don't want to speak for her, but
Speaker 4: you are so close to your sister. You live with
Speaker 4: your sister as well, obviously for period your whole Yeah,
Speaker 4: we travel the world together, but you're so so close.
Speaker 4: What has this diagnosis been like for her? Because I
Speaker 4: can only imagine how frightening that must be. It sounds
Speaker 4: so scary to be diagnosed with MS.
Speaker 1: It's been really hard for her, especially losing the first kid.
Speaker 1: She got married as well two years ago. She's got
Speaker 1: a beautiful husband. She's got a great support unit with
Speaker 1: the family, the Cheery family. You know, men, it's a
Speaker 1: reality show in the Cheery family. But we are so
Speaker 1: used to these these fun periods in our life.
Speaker 2: And we had a life of privilege.
Speaker 1: But we've all been very healthy. Touchwood. I've got my grandparents,
Speaker 1: you know, my parents are still around. We all live
Speaker 1: in suburbs away from each other. This really really threw
Speaker 1: us and it was really hard to watch her go
Speaker 1: through that, and that's why I wanted to talk about it,
Speaker 1: because yeah, no, it's tough to see your sister and
Speaker 1: your big sister right like I'm the little brother, like
Speaker 1: I'm the little bro, and then to see Becky go
Speaker 1: through something that like, it just throws.
Speaker 3: You, especially when you think all you want to do
Speaker 3: with your loved ones when you can see them struggling
Speaker 3: or going through something tough, is help them, is make
Speaker 3: it better?
Speaker 2: Is take it away?
Speaker 3: And knowing there's nothing that you can physically do other
Speaker 3: than be there for her, like you can't take it away.
Speaker 2: It must be really really hard. She's pregnant now.
Speaker 3: Right, she's pregnant, and how has it affected her pregnancy?
Speaker 1: Well, the weird thing is it's actually halted the symptoms.
Speaker 1: She's feeling the best she's felt, which they say happens.
Speaker 4: What does it mean then for her? I mean obviously
Speaker 4: being a new mum and she has so many things
Speaker 4: to look forward to. What does it mean for her
Speaker 4: in terms of how she can manage it moving forward? Now?
Speaker 1: They don't really know. The advice from the doctors was
Speaker 1: to have the babies. She said, do I have kids,
Speaker 1: It will make it worse because it's so MS. It
Speaker 1: can be so tied into hormones and changes and flare ups.
Speaker 1: Their advices have the babies. Like, that's what we tell
Speaker 1: everyone that has MS that wants to have kids, is
Speaker 1: to get them done. So she's just doing it and
Speaker 1: she's living in the moment right now.
Speaker 2: I deal with the rest later.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean she's got to get the C section
Speaker 1: and there are certain things that has to do with
Speaker 1: someone living with MS. But we just want that baby out.
Speaker 1: We want to be healthy, and we love it so much.
Speaker 1: And I just think we're so lucky. Becky's so lucky
Speaker 1: that we have the family. If you're out there and
Speaker 1: you've got MS, I mean, like you really should look
Speaker 1: into the MS walk, roll and run. It is a
Speaker 1: brilliant community. I had no idea about it until the
Speaker 1: last couple of months. This weekend we're all getting together
Speaker 1: in Sydney and if you can't walk, if you've got
Speaker 1: a disability, they're let you roll. You go in the wheelchair.
Speaker 1: You can't run. There's a ten kree.
Speaker 3: For some reason, which I pictured. You meant like roll,
Speaker 3: like you laid on the ground and rolled.
Speaker 4: No, you.
Speaker 2: Genuinely, however, you make your way, you can do it.
Speaker 2: So where is it?
Speaker 1: It's in Sydney. It's in Sydney yet, So twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four MS A walk, run and roll I in my
Speaker 1: Instagram on the bio, will put it on the pickup too.
Speaker 1: We're fundraising. The Cheery family goal was three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: We're so close to getting that three thousand bucks.
Speaker 2: How far away off are you?
Speaker 1: Do? You know, like a couple hundred bucks.
Speaker 3: Well, I am going to put that in and I'm
Speaker 3: going to take it up to three thousand stocks yea,
Speaker 3: and I will match that for it.
Speaker 4: But also everybody, but no, I mean there's so many
Speaker 4: people across the country who can't necessarily get involved because
Speaker 4: of location. But if you do have money that you
Speaker 4: can spare, it's an incredible cause to get involved in totally.
Speaker 1: And times are tough like cost of living, we get it.
Speaker 1: But it's also a brilliant way for those who don't
Speaker 1: have the family, like the juries, to feel a sense
Speaker 1: of community because MS is bloody scary, but you know,
Speaker 1: with donations like this, we can get on our way
Speaker 1: to getting some answers and some hope for people that
Speaker 1: live with it.
Speaker 2: Oh, you're amazing. Give our love to Becky.
Speaker 3: We are going to top up that account now and
Speaker 3: if you guys can spare a couple of dollars, you
Speaker 3: know where to go.