Trust your gut every time

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This past week, I had a chance to hang out in Portland, Oregon for a work trip. The cool part about working for an east coast organization while visiting the west coast, if you wake up super early and keep up with the east coast meetings and schedule, you can still enjoy the day. I…

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An Interesting Discovery During Therapy

Jordan’s occupational therapist and I discovered something a few weeks ago during a session. We had added yoga poses into her life and when we introduced a simple toe-touching stretch. Jordan complained it was really hard. I figured she was pretending. Toe touching for me is so easy. How can it be difficult for an…

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Taping it Down

In a quest to combat Jordan’s recent complaints about shoulder pain, I took her to a new occupational therapist. We have a brand new plan of attack and Jordan is very excited. Introducing… Colorful tape! Jordan is working with kineso tape – it’s an elastic tape that targets muscles and helps train them to work…

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That Overwhelming Feeling

You know the feeling… when you start to realize all the things you need to get done and all the things your kids need… and it starts piling up and all you want to do is crawl into bed and take a nap because that just seems much easier? I had one of those moments…

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Seven jewels

It took the offer of seven jewels, but I got Jordan to help me present her story and her use of prosthetics to occupational therapy students this afternoon. Jordan and I visit the class once a year. I think it’s pretty awesome we’ve visited the class since 2006. It’s funny when we pulled up to…

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