When your muscles fail, one at a timeSylvia Nzambu26 years ago, she was just like any other upwardly mobile woman in her 20s trying to make something of her life. Then one morning Sylvia Nzambu woke up and she couldn’t walk quite right. This, she quickly learnt, was a disease that causes the death of the nerve cells that control voluntary muscles. It gets worse by the day and eventually affects all the voluntary muscles. My work productivity was on an all-time low.” She, however, kept her business going until 2011 when she couldn’t walk anymore and had to use a wheelchair.

Source: Standard Digital April 27, 2020 04:30 UTC