Boston Radio: WKLB's Lori Grande Reveals M-S Struggle

Lori Grande (Herald photo)

The pins and needles and coldness in her feet began eight years ago after a trip to London to visit her best friend. She rubbed them and put on heavy socks, but nothing helped.

So Country WKLB 102.5 FM morning cohost Lori Grande went to see her doctor and then a neurologist. After a battery of tests, and with her parents by her side, the neurologist told Grande she had multiple sclerosis.

Fear consumed her, she recalled.

“I remember just thinking, ‘I don’t want this to be true.’ All I could think is, ‘I’ll be in a wheelchair in six months and I won’t be able to walk,’” Grande, 49, told Jessica Heslam at the Boston Herald in her first media interview about her condition at the station’s Dorchester studio.

Grande has helped raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society but has mostly kept her own diagnosis out of the spotlight.

Now, the cohost of the “JW & Lori in the Morning” show is sharing her story publicly in the hopes of helping others.

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