Mondays at 3pm with Neil and 7pm with Lisa
MS-UK’s Peer Support service is dedicated to providing support to anyone living with multiple sclerosis (MS). Our peer pods provide a safe and friendly online space for people to connect with others for conversation, companionship, and mutual peer support.
As with our other Drop-in pods, this is a space where you can speak openly and freely about anything that matters to you, whether MS related or not, with others that completely understand.
If you are interested in joining this or any of our Peer Pods, or would like more information, please fill in our enquiry form by clicking the button. Vicky, our Peer Support Coordinator will be in touch with you shortly.
My name is Neil and I live in Buckinghamshire with my lovely wife Claire and we are parents to three grown up children.
I’ve lived with MS for 17 years and was encouraged by Claire to join the media Peer Pod (as it was known then) in May 2022. I hoped to discover other media interests outside of the Sports channels my TV is normally fixed on.
Not only did this achieve what I wanted but it also introduced me to a wonderful set of people from all over the UK whose circumstances and challenges are strikingly similar.
It’s now rebranded as the Monday drop-in and we talk openly about anything and everything!
Hello, my name is Lisa. I was diagnosed with RRMS in early 2021 after being diagnosed out of the blue with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) 7 years ago. It came as a huge surprise, I just had blurry vision after all, and has taken me a number of years to accept my diagnosis and seek help, support and treatment. I am still working full time, working in a business I co-own with my best friend, so I can take time off for hospital appointments and when fatigue hits. I also get to work from home, so it makes it much easier for me. I have two teenage children that I don’t know what I would do without, they keep me in check and make sure I don’t do too much.
The MS-UK peer pods have opened a whole new world to me, there are other people out there with MS who just get it. I have chosen to volunteer because I want to give something back to the charity that has helped and supported me so much and hopefully in return support and help people on their MS journey.
