OT in Progress

For my second neuro note, I watched a YouTube series called “ Multiple Sclerosis – My Story ” from a woman named Carolyn who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and she recounts a lot of the experiences she had leading up to her diagnosis. I chose to watch this because I did not really know a lot about multiple sclerosis in general, so I thought it would be interesting and a good way to learn from someone who is living with the diagnosis. In her videos, Carolyn mentions that she believes she was living with symptoms of multiple sclerosis for around 12 months until she received an actual diagnosis. It seemed like she always knew in the back of her mind that this is what it was, but she never wanted to believe it. She even stated that she had worked or volunteered at a facility that worked with people who had multiple sclerosis, but just could not believe how someone who worked there could eventually end up having the diagnosis themselves. I think she thought that it seemed just ...

The movie 50 First Dates is about a woman named Lucy who lives with a traumatic brain injury. She was in a car accident on October 13 th (her father’s birthday) that damaged her temporal lobe which affected her short-term memory. She can remember everything up until the point of her accident, but she lives each new day as if it is October 13 th again because she is unable to create new memories and recall what actually happens every new day. The movie explains she has a condition called “Goldfield’s Syndrome,” however, that is not a real thing. Upon looking it up, I found that what Lucy has would most likely be called anterograde amnesia. According to Mayo Clinic Staff (2017), amnesia in general is the loss of memories, so anterograde amnesia refers to the struggles of learning and retaining new information/memories. I chose to watch this movie because even though I have seen it probably 100 times before (and I’ve loved it every time!), I never thought too much about the actual sc...