In 2007, Hobbs lost sight in her right eye overnight. This led to four years of testing and an eventual MS diagnosis. <\/p>\n
However, her condition worsened during the Covid pandemic when her right leg “stopped working”, she said.<\/p>\n
Hobbs uses a functional electronic stimulation device which helps her continue with her career.<\/p>\n
“I’m lucky enough that I can still work, so I can go out of the house and I sometimes take walking poles with me to help my balance,” she added.<\/p>\n
“Over the years I’ve had to say goodbye to the public performance side of things in my acting career.”<\/p>\n
She said England is “pretty late” to Fampridine; Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have offered the drug on the NHS for several years.<\/p>\n
“Of course it will be disappointing if it doesn’t work, but I would just have to handle it in the way that I’ve handled it all so far,” Hobbs said.<\/p>\n
“I’m really hopeful.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2007, Hobbs lost sight in her right eye overnight. This led to four years of testing and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-732400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}