Living with cerebral palsy (CP) is not easy, even if one has a mild variant of the neuromuscular disability. There are many challenges – physical, emotional, financial, and social – to overcome, and those of us who have CP has to deal with them as best we can. I have, in other entries of this […]
Living With Cerebral Palsy: To Sleep Or Not To Sleep
“I’ve always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.” ― David Benioff, City of Thieves Living with cerebral palsy (CP) often comes with many unpleasant and often painful symptoms […]
My Experience With Occupational Therapy
Cerebral palsy (CP) has affected me for as long as I can remember, in ways both large and small. Physically, it limits my ability to do some tasks that require fine manual dexterity, such as meal preparation or building model kits. CP often robs my hands of the necessary steadiness, and on occasion I’ll experience […]