Multiple Sclerosis Persuasive Speech

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If I am here today and gone tomorrow, don't let it all be for nothing. If in the end, my body cannot withstand one more bout of the flu, or one more relapse, and I give in and succumb, do not let it all be for nothing. Do not live by "what if" and" if only". Further, do not pity yourself with "why me" or "why". Get up and speak out. Tell your side of my story.

I appeal to you, do not linger in the loss, but live in the love. There is the possibility it is for the better. Maybe it is meant to be? Maybe this is the shock you need to change yourself.

Just because my time is over, does not mean my story has to be. Be an advocate. There is care out there that can change the course of others lives. Live not as if Multiple Sclerosis no longer …show more content…
People are unaware of HSCT and what it is, or that it is available. Very few people have done research regarding Multiple Sclerosis and the real impact it has on those around us, aside from god awful effects it has on a person's body, or to pass along with the horror stories of some aunt down the family line that died of it at the age of 60, immobile, on breathing tubes. That is NOT what MS looks like. It walks beside you down the street, it is in your workplace, it is in your family and friends, all too often not mentioned due to the stigma that comes along with it. At times it is the elephant in the room. In reality, Multiple Sclerosis is at the doctors' offices sitting beside you while you silently judge the person suffering it's effects for not putting themselves together before going out in public in sweats with messy hair and no makeup. You cruelly snap their picture to send to your friends with some pathetic hashtag like; #GRATEFUL, you yourself do not look like that, knowing nothing of what they are suffering. We are aware of the looks. We are aware of the whispers. We are aware of you taking our pictures. We do not care what you
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