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After two hours in recovery following a medical procedure, Lana Dziengielewski, who was diagnosed with the degenerate disease Multiple Sclerosis in 1997, got out of the bed and walked to the bathroom without her cane which accompanied her every step for the last two years.

"But to get back quality of life is a blessing right there. I have two teenage sons who have missed out on so much because of me. Now, that's just gone."

There's no more MS fatigue," she said. This symptom was the worst she said, as she could sleep for 12 hours and still feel tired. She described it as a heavy full body suit, and experienced it every single day.

"Instantly that was gone. Wiped away. And the colours are so bright. Before it was like living in a fog and now everything has more definition."

...the 39-year-old mother of two was sitting in the Record-Gazette office in a self-proclaimed state of continued disbelief around the fact that 95 per cent of the debilitating symptoms she began struggling with at the age of eleven, were gone.