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MS patients turn to crowdfunding and mortgage draws to get disease-halting treatment overseas

A woman living with multiple sclerosis has less than two months to raise more than $90,000 to receive a bone-marrow stem cell transplant she hopes will halt the advancement of the disease.  

Sarah McDowell, who lives in Mount Gambier, was diagnosed with MS in 2017 and said it had already significantly impacted her life.

"Normally I'd quite happily walk around the Blue Lake with no problems but a couple of weeks ago I was only able to get halfway round before my leg started shaking," Ms McDowell said.

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