A WOMAN is now back in work, despite a serious illness, thanks to her partner’s business.

Georgina Colman was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) around three years ago, which forced her to leave her then job.

However, she has now found a new lease of life, and is working full-time again, while maintaining her treatments and efforts.

Georgina said: “I never really had any symptoms of MS, but in 2015 I really started going downhill. It began to really affect my job, as I wasn’t able to give it all the effort that it needed, so I felt I had to leave.”

A few months after she left her job, her partner started up a new business, and it is one Georgina has been able to take part in.

Simplymedia is the company, and Georgina has been able to run part of the business from their home.

Georgina manages the competitions part of the business, called iwon.iwn.io, helping out doing the day-to-day running of the website as well as the marketing and recruiting.

Georgina added: “It really gives me focus each day, and it works really well. I can do everything in my own time, and fit everything around going to the hospital, or the gym, or any treatment I might need.

“I’m juggling a lot of balls, but I feel that I can manage it, and while it is not a ‘normal’ job as such, it does make a lot of people happy.

“While it was horrible to be diagnosed and have to go through the treatment, it does prove a few things.

“While it might feel like you get written off by the ‘real world’, I’m proving that just because this happened, that life is not over. Even though this has been a big change, it goes to show that change doesn’t have to be a bad thing.”

Despite a first diagnosis of MS in 2003, there were no initial symptoms, and it was easy to ignore. Georgina said: “It didn’t impact my life that much, and I didn’t think about it. However, after I started experiencing migraines despite never having them before, it was then that I went for an MRI scan that confirmed everything.

“I didn’t know that small things like IBS can be related to MS, and it is important that more people talk about it.”