Plainville woman climbs 60 flights of stairs on crutches for MS fundraiser

BOSTON — A Massachusetts woman climbed 60 flights of stairs Saturday…on crutches.

Carolyn Greene, of Plainville, participated in the stair climb at 200 Clarendon (the former John Hancock building) to support Multiple Sclerosis awareness week.

Greene says MS is just an obstacle for her and one she works every day to overcome.

“I want people to know two things,” Greene said. “Number one: I have MS. It doesn’t have me. Number two: MS is my obstacle. I won’t allow it to be my excuse.”

She certainly needed no excuses when she stood on the final step of the 60-flight stair climb Saturday morning.

This was her fifth time making the climb and it has been 11 years since she was diagnosed with MS, a nervous system disease that affects the brain’s communication with the body.

She was joined by her daughter, who came home from college in New York to climb with her. Her daughter also brought friends home from college to join in the climb as well.

“I do not ask folks to do the climb each year,” she said. “Folks track me down to make sure I am doing the climb and want to join the team…Although it is a challenge, it also helps me realize that I am capable of doing anything I set my mind on.”

Greene’s personal fundraising page for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society shows she raised over $2,000 for her climb this year.

The event, called Climb to the Top Boston 2017, raised a total of $213,533 this year, a bit short of their $350,000 goal.

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