Help provide Lisa a wheelchair accessible van due to MS.

I’m fundraising to buy a wheelchair accessible van for my sister, Lisa Markley, who lives with multiple sclerosis. Diagnosed with MS 11 years ago, her mobility and balance has severely decreased over the last year, leading her to become home-bound. The benefits provided by an accessible vehicle would change Lisa’s life at this point. She will again be able to participate in life outside her home such as attending her young girls’ school and sporting events, attending family holidays and gatherings, seeing friends, attending church services, and attending medical appointments.

Lisa is a wife and mother of twin ten-year-old girls, living in rural Wisconsin. She is also step-mom to two adult daughters and step-grandma to five young children. She has spent her life caring for others in her personal life and in her career as a Registered Nurse. Before being forced to stop working due to MS progression, she worked as a home health case manager, going into others’ homes, assessing their needs, and making sure they had the support they needed. Now, it’s our turn to support her needs.

Financially, MS has led to an inability to continue employment and an increase in costs related to medical appointments and medications, structural changes to make her home accessible, and equipment to help her become as mobile as possible. She has also experienced additional medical issues due to falls, including a broken ankle requiring placement of screws/plates, COVID complications, and a life threatening episode of sepsis.

Multiple sclerosis is an “unpredictable disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and the body, (nationalmssociety.org).” For more information, see the National Multiple Sclerosis Society or mayoclinic.org.