A woman who has the debilitating neurological condition Multiple Sclerosis (MS) has been training up home care staff on how to care for people with the long-term illness.
Sue Rushby has been giving training to staff, at Caremark in Redcar and Cleveland in North Yorkshire on MS, to give them a better understanding of what she goes through every day. Ms Rushby receives home care from Caremark.
The 56-year-old married mother-of-two, who lives in Redcar, only started to experience the first symptoms of her illness a few years ago.
During a protracted and difficult recovery from a broken ankle she noticed her leg was dragging. Other symptoms also started to appear and after a while her diagnosis of MS was finally confirmed.
Caremark’s trainer, Jan Morgan, came up with the idea of Ms Rushby training the staff so they could better understand her condition. She said: “Sue was very open and honest with our group and was able to clearly explain with a lot of humour the many complications that the condition creates. She described having two lives: one before MS and another with MS, which is something not many of us had stopped to think about.
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