first blog entry ever
As I was scrolling through various media sites in search for a topic to write about, I stumbled across this article posted on Twitter by American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA): What to Do When MS Affects Your Ability to Write This article stuck out to me. The piece started with "numbness, tremor, and lack of fine motor control can make it difficult to write by hand, but a number of strategies can help." Already I'm interested. Writing is something EVERYONE should be doing on a daily basis - the young, the old, and the in between. It is actually good for our brains to keep this task. Juliann Hansen-Zlatev, an OT from Colorado, explains that writing actually promotes brain health. Isn't that amazing?! A task I complete every single day, is promoting my brain's health. But I also realized that this task, while easy for myself, may not be so easy for the people around me, or even other populations of people. As I continued on into the article, the w