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By Jodi Helmer
In 2000, just 4 years after being diagnosed with an early, aggressive form of multiple sclerosis, Jennifer Molson started having relapses. Switching to a new, higher-dose medication provided no relief.
“In 2001, I stopped working,” she recalls. “My partner [now husband], Aaron, was bathing me, dressing me, cutting up all my food. I had no feeling from the chest down, bladder control issues, bowel control issues. I remember making a bowl of cereal, putting it on my walker, and dropping it on the floor. And I just sat on the floor and cried.”
A neurologist at the Ottawa, Canada, hospital where Molson was getting treatment suggested she join a clinical trial that was exploring whether a stem cell transplant could get her condition under control.