Organic Biscuit: Using Service Dogs and Assistive Technology with MS

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Using Service Dogs and Assistive Technology with MS

Another patient in my MS Group meeting gave me an article to read that she had cut out of the newspaper recently. The article was about a nurse who was recently diagnosed with MS, and details her coping skills. I liked her advice: be persistent (I am, and I agree), get in a support group (again, I agree) and keep fighting.

She also metnioned that her black lab is a trained service dog. I had read a while back about service dogs for MS'ers and had decided a lab was a good choice. I just have to figure out if Cloe would get along with a new dog. I had a black lab for just a couple of days late last winter. She was a stray that was given to me, but I gave her to the neighbors. I was just trying to find her a good home. She was way too young and had too many bad habits to keep her. If I had known at that time I had MS it I might have kept her.

If you would like to read the article it was in the Indianapolis Star, section C3 on Thursday, August 27, 2009. Read it here.

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