Multiple Sclerosis

Since she was 5, all Allison Bryant ever wanted to do was dance. She performed in competitions, earned a fine arts degree and choreographed her life to open a dance studio on Long Island.

Then the unthinkable happened.

"I started to lose my coordination, and to be honest I thought maybe it was that I wasn't as good as I thought I was," says Bryant.

Talent wasn't the problem. When she was 24, Allison found out that Multiple Sclerosis was attacking her brain and spinal cord. She was told she was never going to walk again.

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