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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National

The mum and dad who have raised $6 million for MS research

At the launch of the Canberra chapter of the Trish Multiple Sclerosis Research Foundation (l-r) Roy Langsford, Adrian Dolahenty, Alicia Payne and Carol Langsford. Picture supplied

Carol and Roy Langsford's daughter Trish was "full of life and vitality, a young woman living out her dreams", playing elite-level tennis, cricket and hockey.

But the cruel march of multiple sclerosis robbed her of a promising future as Trish became bedridden in a nursing home, paralysed, artificially fed and understanding everything that was said to her but unable to communicate in return.

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