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For every person living with and affected by MS there is a unique story about how they move forward with their lives. That is why the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is launching We Keep Moving, a viewer-driven reality campaign that will capture these stories and perspectives through online videos that chronicle how people across the country keep moving forward while living with MS.

Starting today through February 26, people living with and affected by MS are invited to submit a story at www.wekeepmoving.org for consideration. The program aims to not only share the stories of people living with MS — a chronic illness whose symptoms can come and go without warning — but also caregivers, families, loved ones and those who raise funds for the cause.

A committee that includes people living with MS will review all story submissions to select the finalists. For ten weeks beginning March 9, finalist stories will be shared at the program’s Web site, where the public will vote to decide which story will be filmed and where our road crew will travel next on this cross-country journey.

The road crew is made up of three creative professionals whose lives share a common bond: all of them are living with MS and are on their own journeys to share what it means to live with a disease whose hallmark is unpredictability. To learn more about these three individuals, visit www.wekeepmoving.org.

Multiple sclerosis, an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system, interrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and body. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to loss of vision and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are moving us closer to a world free of MS. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with at least two to three times more women than men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S. and over 2.1 million worldwide.