Lexington, KY—MS Awareness Week takes place March 2 – 8, and the Kentucky Southeast Indiana Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is asking everyone to MOVE IT to end MS now. Show your commitment to the MS movement with simple actions throughout the week.
“Whether you’re a Move It maverick or a Move It motivator, you can make a difference in the lives of the 4,600 people who live with MS in Kentucky,” said Pat Scheiber, interim president of the Society’s Kentucky Southeast Indiana Chapter. “There are fun and easy activities throughout MS Awareness week that will make you feel ‘good’ while you do good.” Scheiber continued.
To find out ways to be a part of MS Awareness Week, and encourage others to move it too, visit nationalMSsociety.org:
• Download web banners and widgets for your social network pages like Facebook and Twitter
• Share your story about how you are “moving it”
• Sign up to volunteer at an upcoming chapter event or in the National MS Society office
• Form a team for a Bike MS or Walk MS
• Email a legislator about an issue important to people with MS
• Tell five people it’s MS Awareness Week and ask them to tell five more people
• Support the Society – every donation moves us closer to a world free of MS
• Raise MS aWEARness by wearing orange; need something new? Visit:
• Visit nationalMSsociety.org every day during MS Awareness Week for new tips and ideas
• Local events taking place in Kentucky
o March 3rd – Move it to Make a Difference – Day on the Hill (Frankfort)
o March 3rd – Move it to Eat Out – Mimi’s (Louisville)
o March 3rd – Move it to Eat Out – Max & Erma’s (Lexington – Hamburg)
o March 4th – Move it to Eat Out – Gattitown (Lexington)
o March 5th – Move it to Learn – Telecare program at 5:30 p.m. (various)
o March 7th and 8th – Crop MS – scrapbooking weekend (Paducah)
o March 7th – Move it to Mobility – Conference (Louisville)
“Remember, Move it… Move it, during MS Awareness Week. It is the perfect time to join and help build the MS Movement,” said Scheiber.
About Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis interrupts the flow of information between the brain and the body and stops people from moving. Every hour in the United States, someone is newly diagnosed with MS, an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are moving us closer to a world free of MS. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with more than twice as many women as men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S. and 2.5 million worldwide.
About the National MS Society
MS stops people from moving. The National MS Society exists to make sure it doesn’t. We help each person address the challenges of living with MS. In 2007 alone, through our national office and our 50 state network of chapters, we devoted over $136 million to programs that enhanced more than one million lives to move us closer to a world free of MS. The Society also invested more than $46 million to support 440 research projects around the world. We are people who want to do something about MS NOW. Join the movement at nationalMSsociety.org.
