Casey Kopacz (back, with orange sign) and Roseanne Pulvermacher (back, red jacket), along with Casey’s friends, participated in the MS Walk in Brookfield on Saturday.

On Saturday, Casey Kopacz and Rosanne Pulvermacher, both Senior Deposit Operations Specialists in the Customer Support Center, participated in Walk MS, a fundraising walk to fight multiple sclerosis, at Mitchell Park in Brookfield. This is the second time Casey has participated in the walk.

Casey was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021 after experiencing numbness in her right hand, which quickly spread to the right side of her body. Within a week, she lost mobility on her left side. “It was at that time that my co-workers convinced me to go to the hospital, where I found out it was MS,” Casey said.

Since that time, Casey is grateful to have not experienced flare-ups, although she does have decreased sensation to temperature on her right side.

“Treatments for multiple sclerosis have come such a long way, and I’m thankful that with those treatments, I’ve been able to stay in remission,” she said. “I’m also thankful for the community putting this fundraising event together every year to help bring awareness to this terrible disease and try to bring an end to it.”