In 2010, at just 20 years old, Chelsea Ashe started losing vision in her left eye and developed severe double vision. Several doctors dismissed her concerns, suggesting she only needed glasses. “It was my word against all the eye doctors saying ‘oh, other than you need glasses, your eyes are fine,’” she says. It was frustrating, trying to explain her symptoms accurately to doctors, but her mother knew she wasn’t one to exaggerate and pushed her to keep searching for an answer.

Finally, a family friend who worked as a healthcare provider in urgent care took her concerns seriously, ordered tests, and asked if she’d ever had an MRI. Within a month, Chelsea had her first scan and a referral to a neurologist, where she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) — a chronic, progressive neurolo

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