‘I am in such a better place, and now I want to help others’
Before she knew she had multiple sclerosis, Eva Jackson hid her shaky limbs for fear it would compromise her career.
Now, she boldly embraces all things MS, even bedazzling her first cane.
“I am in such a better place, and now I want to help others,” said the National MS Society peer support leader in central Mississippi.
As a Black woman who struggled seven long years before being properly diagnosed, she’s determined to counter the dangerous delusion that Black people don’t get MS.