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Art Project Helps Lehigh County MS Patients Cope

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Sep 13, 2007 8:17 pm US/Eastern

Art Project Helps Lehigh County MS Patients Cope

ALLENTOWN (CBS 3) ― Multiple Sclerosis is a disease that affects 400,000 Americans and an art project in the Lehigh Valley is raising awareness about the debilitating illness.

Patients at the Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital in Allentown are making plaster masks of their own faces and decorating them in ways that best depicts their struggle with the disease.

This form of storytelling is helping many of the patients come to grips with their disease and even poke fun at it.

"I am making a mask here, and I am sticking my tongue out to say Na-Na-Na, which means I am going to beat this one way or another," said MS patient, Ed Thierer.

"It kind of reminds me of my vision, pieces missing here and there. MS is very strange like that," said Andrew Tomaisc as he painted his mask.

Dr. Brett Webber was diagnosed with MS 10 years ago and felt 'The Faces of MS' art project would help create awareness and provide therapeutic benefits.

"When you have a disease, focusing on the positive is always important," said Dr. Webber.

"It opened up something that I had totally forgotten about in my life. I love art. It was something that I enjoyed so much as a child," said MS patient, Gail Speelman.

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