'Multiple Sclerosis - Smiling & Hurting' is the story of Dorothy M. Mitchell. Born in a small Yorkshire village just before the Second World War, she remembers vividly being in the air raid shelter as enemy bombs rained down on nearby Bradford and Leeds, the night sky red from fires burning below in the cities and the sound of aircraft above very frightening. She started work in a cotton mill at the age of fourteen before moving to Evesham in Worcestershire at the age of sixteen with her parents. She married at eighteen, has two sons and seven grandchildren. Dorothy was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at the age of thirty seven, suffering many relapse and a few near nervous breakdowns.