Mim Greene, who has MS, in her home. ‘It's a really horrible disease ... without Kismet, things would be a lot darker.’ Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times
“When I saw he had my name written in his stripes, it really was fate,” said Mim Greene, who lives with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), about her beloved cat Kismet.
From Drogheda but living in Portobello, Dublin for the last 35 years, Ms Greene got rescue cat Kismet from the DSPCA when he was nine years old, shortly after she was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease.
She received her diagnosis almost seven years ago but feels that she had symptoms for seven years prior.
“I fell down the stairs, I would be walking across the road and my legs would give way and strangers would have to pick me up
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