S.C. was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in June 2015. She was about to turn 22, and had already faced several medical issues including GERD, Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH), and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) can affect people in different ways, and in S.C.'s case, she experiences symptoms including weakness in her hands, as well as poor balance and coordination. She is now in law school, and was diagnosed during her first year. S.C. avoids telling her professors about her diagnosis, even though she struggles hand writing her numerous assignments because she does not want to be treated differently. S.C. enjoys horseback riding, and even volunteers with hippo-therapy three times a week. I think S.C. could benefit from OT because she can be taught new ways to prevent fatigue and even use adaptive equipment to help her with horseback riding or writing her papers. Her story is very inspiring because she has not let her diagnosis keep her from achieving her dreams.
For this assignment, I decided to watch a movie called The Fundamentals of Caring. The title of this movie had caught my eye while scrolling through Netflix a few times before, but I had never taken the time to watch it. This movie is about a retired author named Ben who decides to enroll in a class and become a caregiver. He takes on a full time job caring for a boy named Trevor who has muscular dystrophy. Although Ben has no previous experience as a caregiver, it does not take long for him to gain the respect of Trevor. He decides to get Trevor out of the house and away from his dull daily routine to embark on a road trip together. Trevor saw and experienced things that he would never have had the chance to do before Ben came into his life. Ben made sure that Trevor could check things off of his bucket list without solely focusing on the worry of medicines and treatments for a week. My main takeaway from this movie was how Ben did not treat Trevor differently...
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