Emma Gillespie

Oh my God.

The jewellery is absolutely beautiful.

She mostly works with sapphires and creates colourful and

engagement rings and other gorgeous pieces.

Sapphires are my, what's it?

Your birthstone.

Your birthstone.

That's my birthstone.

I love a sapphire.

We love a sapphire.

So Meg was diagnosed with MS in early 2020 and her story really captures a lot of what we've been chatting about today, Billie, in a really human way.

She is a young woman who has her own business, charging ahead, living actively and fully.

So I wanted to share some of the conversation I had with her.

Billie, something that really stood out to me from my chat with Meg, or I guess something that I learned from her, is how the diagnosis can become this lens for other people to

for you that disclosing her MS to people around her, for some of them initially it changed the way they looked at her and thought of her and spoke to her or many of the people in her life wanted to kind of wrap her up in bubble wrap and protect her before she had even had a chance to process the diagnosis herself.

Exactly.

And that's no small thing.

And that's kind of the point here that, you know, nine in 10 people with RRMS feel positive about their future.

Meg is just one of thousands of people in that category.

She's navigating something that so many of us would find exhausting, you know, not just the disease itself, but that management of other people's assumptions about it.