The Marion County Sheriff’s Office hosted a Walk for MS fundraiser on Saturday.
The walk was in honor of Sheriff’s Office Captain Judith Barker who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
“In the last year 18,000 people have been diagnosed with MS in North and South Carolina so we need to bring awareness to MS and we wanted to honor our Captain Judy Barker. “ Said Tammy Erwin with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.
Multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information in the brain, and between the brain and the body, according to the National MS Society. The casue of MS is still unknown, but most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50.
