I learned a new MS term today in an MS health line group page called “the claw”. This is a thing that my muscles and nerves causes the hand to look like a claw. My first and middle finger is not too bad, but my thumb , ring finger and pinkie is bent like this everyday. I do art therapy to focus, but I want to share things that I go through everyday: like everything I pick up I drop, drop dishes, coffee, bottle water, can’t zip pants, coats or button clothes, sometimes socks and shoes are a joke to get on and when I grab things my thumb doesn’t let go of it. When I hold paper in my left hand to cut using my right hand with scissors sometimes I have to do things over because I’ve ripped something, cut off shapes to the point they look stupid, cut off letters, glue all over the place, paint and ink everywhere. My art therapy keeps my hand from being fully unworkable. I’m fortunate, there are people worse than me. Recently, had an EMG test the most god awful pins and electric zapping at my hand fingers and arm. I wanted to punch the doctor. Test results doctor/technician said it’s from the MS, duh! #mymsandme #mswarrior