The 9th June is Transverse Myelitis Awareness day, and this year it was celebrated at Surrey Hills Rehab in Smithbrook Kilns which is run by Kim Wilson, with tea, talk and lots of cake.

TM is a rare disease of the central nervous system involving inflammation of the spinal cord. This results in messages from the brain to the body being blocked, causing sensory and motor impairment. Sufferers can experience numbness, tingling, pain, paralysis, spasticity, weakness, fatigue and problems with bowel, bladder and sexual dysfunction.