Dawn Patton is taking her message on the road this week.

Patton, of Geneva, who has multiple sclerosis, and her team, “That’s How We Roll,” will have an information table at the Albert Lea Family YMCA from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday. On Tuesday and Wednesday, they’ll be at the Minnesota School of Business in Rochester, again from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Those who visit the table can get general information about the disease, an opportunity to sponsor the team in the May 2 walk at Soldiers Field in Rochester, register for a prize drawing, volunteer or form a team of their own. It’s all part of MS Awareness Week activities March 8-14.

Patton has had MS for nearly 20 years. Her two daughters were just 4 and 5 years old when she began to experience numbness in her legs, then hands, before being diagnosed with the chronic disease of the nervous system. Multiple sclerosis interrupts the flow of information between the body and stops people from moving, according to MS Society.

People with MS can typically experience one of four disease courses, each of which might be mild, moderate or severe. There’s relapsing-remitting MS, primary-progressive MS, secondary-progressive MS or progressive-relapsing MS.

“I am so fortunate that of the different types of MS, I have the less progressive,” Patton said. “A lot of people with MS have problems walking or can’t walk at all.”

Patton’s course of MS actually went into remission for a number of years. She took no treatments during that time, then four or five years ago began to experience some symptoms again. She sees a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic and gets an injection each day, a medical advance made since she was initially diagnosed.

Patton said she hopes that research will eventually discover a cure.

Until then, her team, comprised of family members and a friend of her daughter’s, plan to do what they can to help.

“All the money we collect stays in Minnesota,” she said.