July 2011
It's more than 100 degrees outside, and even though extreme heat leaves Melissa May Yelvington limp, she walks through the gym door.
The 63-year-old has multiple sclerosis, a disease that attacks the nervous system, distorting and interrupting the impulses that travel from her brain to the rest of her body.
Eighteen months ago, Yelvington's independence was diminishing; she couldn't stand up or sit without assistance.
But today, she gingerly lowers herself to a chair at Creek's Gym in Palm Desert. She shares a laugh with other clients of ACT for MS, a nonprofit organization that provides two personal training sessions a week to those with various degrees of disability from the disease.
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