MS Readathon an invaluable fund-raiser for all ages, says Tim Ferguson

Tim Ferguson will be at the National Museum as part of their Where Our Stories Live series. Photo: Supplied

Having joined in the MS Readathon as a child, comedian Tim Ferguson hardly imagined he might one day be the fund-raiser's pin-up boy.

Although diagnosed with the disease at 32, the 50-year-old comedian and TV presenter says he foolishly didn't seek help for what he calls his idiot legs until two years ago.

And then he met Robyn Hunter, head of MS Australia, which organises the readathon that has helped raise more than $40 million for MS sufferers since it began in 1979.

Tim Ferguson Photo: JAMES PENLIDIS

I met with Robyn, and when I did, I realised what a fool I'd been, Ferguson says.

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She said, we can help you. We can source a wheelchair, we can help you get in touch with a good physio - we can help you get some exercise and get healthy.'

For Ferguson, the help proved invaluable, and now, he wants others like him to to reap the rewards.

People can go blind, deaf, get foggy memories and experience pins and needles that actually feel like pins and needles - some people feel like they're on fire, he says.

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MS Readathon an invaluable fund-raiser for all ages, says Tim Ferguson