After years of treatment failures, Mark Rye finally has hope for the future.
The 41-year-old has suffered from multiple sclerosis for the last ten years. The debilitating condition has robbed him of his energy, temporarily took away the sight in one eye and forced him to close the building firm he owned.
Two previous drugs have failed to work, but just before Christmas Mr Rye, pictured, underwent the autologous hemato-poietic stem cell transplantation treatment.
Since then, the father-of-two says he is walking better, and has stopped suffering from hand and head tremors.
‘I know it won’t be a miracle cure. There is no cure for any form of MS,’ said Mr Rye, who lives in Surrey with his wife Olivia, and sons Alexander, three, and Henry, two.
‘But if it stops my condition progressing for ten years or 20 years, if it means I can watch my children grow up, for me that is as good as a cure ... It is all about hope.’
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