Author's Periodic Reminder

It should be noted that the author suffers from multiple limb-paralysis as a result of Multiple Sclerosis.

Typing these articles is a self-taught methodology using my one (non-dominant) hand only. My formerly dominant-side is almost useless because it is subject to intention tremor...a type of involuntary movement that mimics muscle-spasms and is difficult to control (I say "mimics" purely to indicate that the resulting effects are purely-neurological and totally unlike anything a normal person experiences).

I overcome many of the difficulties in my legs by walking frequently (with a cane), but the effect on my hand is such that even repeated-exercises don't help much.

I suspect (but don't know) that some segment of those connections are short-circuiting due to partial-exposure to my CSF [the "scars" in Multiple Sclerosis are usually more properly "lesions" in the white-matter insulating neurons from such phenomena].

But again, I'm not a neurologist...so this analysis could be completely erroneous. I'm only describing the experience from my own flawed point-of-view.

--mattergy

p.s. not being a professional neurologist, I may be in error using the term intention tremor as the description for what it is I experience...there may be a more accurate term for the random and unpredictable movement of limbs which sometimes accompanies Multiple Sclerosis--Just as the term nystagmus describes what's happening to my eyes to make my 20/20 vision so unreliable in practice.