article_snippet: As Lucy Norman looked at the piece of paper in front of Lucy Norman, Lucy Norman massaged Lucy Norman fingers and puzzled over the spidery, illegible writing.
article_snippet: As a personal assistant, Lucy Norman relied on Lucy Norman ability to take accurate, concise notes and was proud of Lucy Norman neat handwriting.
article_snippet: Yet the words Lucy Norman’d just written were no better than a scrawl.
article_snippet: ‘I’d start writing as normal, but within just a few words, it would fade into little more than a scribble,’ says Lucy, 42, who lives in Barford St Michael, Oxfordshire, with Lucy husband Angus, 64, an engineer.
article_snippet: I can’t write very well or type any more, and I tend to stammer and drop things, but I can honestly say I have a better quality of life,’ Lucy says.