“Pain stabs me again and again … And every step is like torture …” – says Teona, mother of 5-year-old Demetre and 14-year-old Luka. Her eyes are full of tears and inconsolable despair.
“Everything I love hangs in the balance … Doctors have not been able to diagnose me for more than a year, and we have already spent absolutely everything on consultations, tests, examinations, and there is still no end to this … Oh woe, woe!”
Teona raised her eyes to the sky, and tears streamed down her cheeks.
“Mommy, I won’t give you to anyone, ever,” says 5-year-old Demetre and hugs his mom tightly.
What is multiple sclerosis? Teona answers this way: “Tomorrow, when I wake up, I don’t know if I will remember that these are my children …”