Synopsis

Imagine waking up and suddenly not being able to walk to the bathroom. Or opening your eyes in the morning to find you lost your vision as you slept. It’s your body shutting itself down, fighting itself. It’s a disease. Between waking up and eventually falling asleep, you spend almost every waking moment fighting fatigue and this physical uncertainty by attacking back at the disease that’s attacking you. And you do it on every possible front. Now imagine trying to keep that struggle so quiet for fear of worry consuming those you care about. How will you ever find love or build a family in a situation so unstable? It sounds terrifying. That is the life of a feisty first generation Polish-Canadian named Patrycia Rzechowka. “Fighting Through The Fog” is a look at the type of quiet hero that struggles around us with an invisible illness that has no regularity, consistency, or scientific pattern. Multiple Sclerosis has alarmingly high rates of diagnosis across North America, with even much higher rates across the Canadian Prairies, have it affecting millions of people worldwide, 75% being women. Our hero, slowly learning not to hide, has devoted herself to the daunting task of eliminating the disease. Patrycia stays active not only to combat her MS, but by participating as a fundraiser, volunteer, research subject, advocate, and spokeswoman. Her advocacy work to raise awareness on episodic illness, in part, started