#chronic pain
When she boarded her plane to Bali, Indonesia the day after her wedding, Mai Abdelhay, a 26-year-old digital marketing specialist, did not expect to be at a hospital in Cairo less than a week later, surrounded by her family, physically unable to speak. "It looks like you have MS," the doctor barked at her. "And you'll have to stay here in the hospital for five more days and take an intensive course of cortisone." What MS was, she did not…