A performer (actress, singer), leader, mentor, and community volunteer with her hands on a number of projects, Madeline is a joy to know. She loves gardening and The Sound of Music. Her friends describe her as "effervescent." She's one of more than 600,000 Canadians living with family of diseases twice as common as Multiple Sclerosis that many doctors don't even believe in, despite a strong correlation to viral infections. She and others face painful deterioration without more government supports, with still untold numbers of COVID-19 survivors joining them.