We catch up regularly in our favourite café. Well, not regularly as in weekly but, you know, every few months or so when we feel we have something to talk about. There are four of us: we call ourselves Survivors, because each one of us has battled several autoimmune illnesses, but what we have in common was multiple sclerosis(MS). We’d initially met at an MS exercise group, which eventually folded, but we had so much in common by that time and knew so much about what each other was going through, that we wanted to keep meeting.