WEBVTT - MINI: Mitch is doing a walk to support MS this weekend 🏃

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<v Speaker 1>Girls. You know, I've been in my Hot Girl walk era.

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<v Speaker 1>I've been running. I was looking at joining a run club.

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<v Speaker 2>You've got a headband, I got a headband, I got

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<v Speaker 2>so you've got all the gear, no idea.

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<v Speaker 1>I got all the active wear, and this weekend I'm

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<v Speaker 1>putting it on and doing it all for a good cause.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm walking this year in the MS Walk, Run and Roll.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a brilliant initiative and it's something that is very

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<v Speaker 1>personal to me, very close to home. Very recently, my

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<v Speaker 1>beautiful sister Becky was diagnosed with MS, and you guys

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<v Speaker 1>were following along in that journey because it really has happened.

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<v Speaker 1>In the last couple of months. She was diagnosed with MS,

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<v Speaker 1>she lost her first baby, she had her first first miscarriage,

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<v Speaker 1>first baby in the family, all within the same month period,

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<v Speaker 1>four weeks.

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<v Speaker 2>Can you tell her?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>Tell everyone that's listening that might not know what MS.

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<v Speaker 1>Is, Okay, So. MS. Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, often

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<v Speaker 1>very debilitating disease which attacks the central nervous system, which

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<v Speaker 1>is the brain, spinal cord, and the optic nerves. It's

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<v Speaker 1>the most common neurological disease in young adults. And often

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<v Speaker 1>attacks people at times in their lives when they're planning families,

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<v Speaker 1>building a career. Really does strike around that thirty to

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<v Speaker 1>forty year old period, and it often affects women more

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<v Speaker 1>so than men.

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<v Speaker 2>And they don't really know the cause, do they.

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<v Speaker 3>It's one of those things that just sort of happens

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<v Speaker 3>and you don't really know why, and there's not really

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<v Speaker 3>a lot to stop it.

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<v Speaker 1>Is that that's the hardest part, and I think that's

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<v Speaker 1>what's been so scary. I don't want to talk for Becky.

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<v Speaker 1>I've spoken to her. She's happy for me to talk

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<v Speaker 1>about it, and we're doing the walk and the run

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<v Speaker 1>on the weekend. We're all excited. But she went in

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<v Speaker 1>and out of doctors for years with the same symptoms.

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<v Speaker 1>Nothing changed. She had bizarre optical changes. She would feel

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<v Speaker 1>stroke like symptoms, She couldn't walk for days, she would

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<v Speaker 1>her mood would be up and down, her speech would change.

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<v Speaker 1>All these things that they'd put down to stress, they'd

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<v Speaker 1>put down to hormones, being a young woman, the miscarriage

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<v Speaker 1>they put it down to, and from doctor to doctor,

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<v Speaker 1>to neurologists to neurologists, like tears and stress, which only

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<v Speaker 1>makes these symptoms. Worse, she finally got a diagnosis of MS,

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<v Speaker 1>which isn't even there's no blood markers really that say

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<v Speaker 1>you've got MS. You've got this, you've got this, you've

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<v Speaker 1>got this, knowing all that you think it's MS.

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<v Speaker 4>I know you don't want to speak for her, but

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<v Speaker 4>you are so close to your sister. You live with

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<v Speaker 4>your sister as well, obviously for period your whole Yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>we travel the world together, but you're so so close.

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<v Speaker 4>What has this diagnosis been like for her? Because I

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<v Speaker 4>can only imagine how frightening that must be. It sounds

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<v Speaker 4>so scary to be diagnosed with MS.

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<v Speaker 1>It's been really hard for her, especially losing the first kid.

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<v Speaker 1>She got married as well two years ago. She's got

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<v Speaker 1>a beautiful husband. She's got a great support unit with

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<v Speaker 1>the family, the Cheery family. You know, men, it's a

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<v Speaker 1>reality show in the Cheery family. But we are so

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<v Speaker 1>used to these these fun periods in our life.

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<v Speaker 2>And we had a life of privilege.

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<v Speaker 1>But we've all been very healthy. Touchwood. I've got my grandparents,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, my parents are still around. We all live

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<v Speaker 1>in suburbs away from each other. This really really threw

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<v Speaker 1>us and it was really hard to watch her go

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<v Speaker 1>through that, and that's why I wanted to talk about it,

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<v Speaker 1>because yeah, no, it's tough to see your sister and

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<v Speaker 1>your big sister right like I'm the little brother, like

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<v Speaker 1>I'm the little bro, and then to see Becky go

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<v Speaker 1>through something that like, it just throws.

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<v Speaker 3>You, especially when you think all you want to do

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<v Speaker 3>with your loved ones when you can see them struggling

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<v Speaker 3>or going through something tough, is help them, is make

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<v Speaker 3>it better?

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<v Speaker 2>Is take it away?

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<v Speaker 3>And knowing there's nothing that you can physically do other

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<v Speaker 3>than be there for her, like you can't take it away.

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<v Speaker 2>It must be really really hard. She's pregnant now.

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<v Speaker 3>Right, she's pregnant, and how has it affected her pregnancy?

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<v Speaker 1>Well, the weird thing is it's actually halted the symptoms.

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<v Speaker 1>She's feeling the best she's felt, which they say happens.

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<v Speaker 4>What does it mean then for her? I mean obviously

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<v Speaker 4>being a new mum and she has so many things

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<v Speaker 4>to look forward to. What does it mean for her

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<v Speaker 4>in terms of how she can manage it moving forward? Now?

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<v Speaker 1>They don't really know. The advice from the doctors was

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<v Speaker 1>to have the babies. She said, do I have kids,

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<v Speaker 1>It will make it worse because it's so MS. It

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<v Speaker 1>can be so tied into hormones and changes and flare ups.

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<v Speaker 1>Their advices have the babies. Like, that's what we tell

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<v Speaker 1>everyone that has MS that wants to have kids, is

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<v Speaker 1>to get them done. So she's just doing it and

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<v Speaker 1>she's living in the moment right now.

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<v Speaker 2>I deal with the rest later.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean she's got to get the C section

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<v Speaker 1>and there are certain things that has to do with

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<v Speaker 1>someone living with MS. But we just want that baby out.

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<v Speaker 1>We want to be healthy, and we love it so much.

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<v Speaker 1>And I just think we're so lucky. Becky's so lucky

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<v Speaker 1>that we have the family. If you're out there and

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<v Speaker 1>you've got MS, I mean, like you really should look

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<v Speaker 1>into the MS walk, roll and run. It is a

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<v Speaker 1>brilliant community. I had no idea about it until the

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<v Speaker 1>last couple of months. This weekend we're all getting together

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<v Speaker 1>in Sydney and if you can't walk, if you've got

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<v Speaker 1>a disability, they're let you roll. You go in the wheelchair.

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<v Speaker 1>You can't run. There's a ten kree.

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<v Speaker 3>For some reason, which I pictured. You meant like roll,

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<v Speaker 3>like you laid on the ground and rolled.

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<v Speaker 4>No, you.

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<v Speaker 2>Genuinely, however, you make your way, you can do it.

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<v Speaker 2>So where is it?

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<v Speaker 1>It's in Sydney. It's in Sydney yet, So twenty twenty

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<v Speaker 1>four MS A walk, run and roll I in my

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<v Speaker 1>Instagram on the bio, will put it on the pickup too.

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<v Speaker 1>We're fundraising. The Cheery family goal was three thousand dollars.

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<v Speaker 1>We're so close to getting that three thousand bucks.

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<v Speaker 2>How far away off are you?

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<v Speaker 1>Do? You know, like a couple hundred bucks.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, I am going to put that in and I'm

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<v Speaker 3>going to take it up to three thousand stocks yea,

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<v Speaker 3>and I will match that for it.

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<v Speaker 4>But also everybody, but no, I mean there's so many

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<v Speaker 4>people across the country who can't necessarily get involved because

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<v Speaker 4>of location. But if you do have money that you

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<v Speaker 4>can spare, it's an incredible cause to get involved in totally.

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<v Speaker 1>And times are tough like cost of living, we get it.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's also a brilliant way for those who don't

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<v Speaker 1>have the family, like the juries, to feel a sense

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<v Speaker 1>of community because MS is bloody scary, but you know,

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<v Speaker 1>with donations like this, we can get on our way

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<v Speaker 1>to getting some answers and some hope for people that

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<v Speaker 1>live with it.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, you're amazing. Give our love to Becky.

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<v Speaker 3>We are going to top up that account now and

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<v Speaker 3>if you guys can spare a couple of dollars, you

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<v Speaker 3>know where to go.