Coffee Break with Community Member Katy Deacon

Welcome to the Living Well with MS Coffee Break, where we are pleased to welcome Katy Deacon as our guest! Katy is a mother of two, lives with MS and follows the Overcoming MS program.
Questions and Timestamps
01:15 Can you tell us a little about yourself, your family, and your life?
01:40 When were you diagnosed with MS and how did you initially cope with it?
07:11 You have experienced some mobility issues. Can you share some of your experiences in dealing with these and how you’ve learned to adapt?
12:36 When did you first start to see positive indicators in following Overcoming MS program?
14:32 What are some of the challenges you’ve faced at first in adopting the Overcoming MS program? How did you overcome them?
19:10 How do you manage being a mother with MS?
21:05 If there is one piece of advice you can share with people new to the Overcoming MS program, what would that be?
Katy’s Bio
Katy is a Chartered Electrical Engineer, a wife and mother to two young children. She enjoyed her work project managing the installation of renewable energy systems and overseeing building energy management up until her MS symptoms appeared nine years ago. Katy still works full time, but she changed her technical focus as the inability to walk restricts the amount of scrambling around building sites that one can do.
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