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September 10, 2025

Hope With Better Odds — For You, For MS Patients Everywhere


When you buy a ticket for the MS Big Draw Lottery, you’re not just entering a game.

You’re entering a movement.

A movement that gives real people with MS access to the treatment that saved my life: HSCT.

Why This Lottery is Different

We want HSCT to be available to the masses (my father would still be with me if he had the treatment 😞)…… but we need to raise funds…… we are a charity lead by volunteers who all have MS and had HSCT.

WE.KNOW.THE.STRUGGLE

We looked for a solution that raises money for others to get HSCT, whilst giving you a chance to make some serious money.

Lottery closes this Friday…. make sure to get your friends and family to enter:

  • 45x better odds than the national lottery

  • 60% goes to AIMS, not just 28% like the national lottery

  • 100% supports HSCT treatment access & peer support

Every ticket pushes us closer to funding more patients’ futures.

A Year on From HSCT: The Power of Starting Again

My step count increased 200% since treatment

This week marks my one-year “Stemmie Anniversary” — the day my stem cells were returned, and life truly began again.

Looking back, I want to write a short letter to the version of myself who walked into the clinic on September 10, 2024.

I’d tell him:

“This will break you, many times a day.

You’ll cry at kids’ movies…… you’ll feel fragile in ways you’ve never known.

But you’ll also discover a strength you didn’t realise you had.

You’ll come out the other side tougher, more focused, and determined to live like an athlete — not for medals, but to keep your mind sharp and MS at bay.”

One year later, I’m here — symptoms shrinking, brain fog gone, speech clear, energy renewed.

I’ve gained time I thought was already slipping away.

I have more moments with my kids, victories in business, friendships forged in hospital corridors, and the belief that I can accomplish anything. HSCT gave me back my future.

To anyone standing where I stood a year ago: it is hard, but you already know what hard feels like — you live with MS.

Don’t overthink it.

Get it done.

Your future self will thank you.

- Paul (AIMS Trustee)

PS. My father passed away from MS….. I was diagnosed a few years after he passed…… when I asked Dr Ruiz Argüelles (Director of Clínica Ruiz in Mexico) about my father and what how HSCT could have helped, he confirmed it…. I would have had more time with him if he had the treatment.

Donate to the lottery….. let’s stop the suffering now 👊