Newsday
Watching Jennifer Shea gracefully glide across the stage on tiptoe before balancing on one foot at Tanner Park in Copiague, it’s hard to imagine that just a decade ago she couldn’t even walk the few feet from her couch to the kitchen.
Shea, 42, of Babylon Village, spent much of her life studying Classical ballet and always longed to return to the art form as an adult. But a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis at age 31 left that dream a seeming impossibility.
This summer, with her health stabilized, Shea decided to take a grand leap back into her youth and into the ballet studio that first ignited her passion for dance.
Multiple sclerosis, known as MS, is a disease in which the immune system attacks the protective sheath that covers nerve fibers and can eventually cause permanent damage to
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