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I Woke Up Paralyzed on My Entire Left Side. My Life Was Never the Same
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I rarely asked myself what I needed because I was too busy making sure everyone else had what they needed.
I felt a sharp pain down my life side, like an electric shock, and then I felt nothing.
When I got home, I couldn't return to the life I had left behind.
Black women who had never seen someone who looked like them talk openly about MS without sanitizing it.
So I kept going: I eventually created a documentary that follows the stories of five Black women living with MS, called All in My Head.