Wendy Bordewisch doesn’t let multiple sclerosis keep her from moving
Mar 09, 2015
ANNAPOLIS, Md. —The diagnosis of multiple sclerosis can be debilitating and depressing, but one local woman instead got inspired by it.
There are about 10,000 people living in Maryland with multiple sclerosis, a disease in which the immune system attacks the central nervous system. The cause is unknown and the disease is unpredictable. From numbness to paralysis, different MS patients suffer different symptoms.
Working out often isn’t something you would expect from a person who has MS, but for sufferer Wendy Bordewisch, Evolutions Gym in Annapolis is often a home away from home. She’s there at least four days a week doing cardio and weights.
When she was diagnosed with MS, she was doing a different kind of heavy lifting. She was a mom of young children, and learning she had MS terrified her.
“The goal of MS is to stop you from moving. It truly is the goal,” Bordewisch said. “To see people that have been affected in that way is truly devastating. That was my first vision — that this could stop me from moving.”
But she hasn’t stopped moving. After she got over the fear of what the disease could do to her, she decided to do something and didn’t quit.
“For me it just meant, OK, I’ve got this unpredictable disease. I need to do whatever I can to make sure I take care of myself and what I’ve got,” Bordewisch said.
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