It’s hard to know for sure how you would react if told you had a serious disease.
Denial perhaps. Maybe fear, anger, confusion, or sadness. For Muna Al Harbi – an Emirati mother with multiple sclerosis – it was all of this and more.
Her diagnosis was particularly dramatic and intense as it was during the birth of her second child.
Most people would remain trapped with dark images about their future. Yet the experience eventually turned into something truly positive for Muna and she now – almost unbelievably – considers MS “her friend”.