Posts Tagged ‘Therapy’
Trust your gut every time
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…
Read More +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…
Read More +"But It's So Hard, Mommy"
For almost all eight years I’ve written this blog, I’ve focused on Jordan’s health. Everything I do is focused on making sure she is strong mentally and physically. That’s why we’ve made a glorious return to occupational therapy to prevent periodic shoulder pain. Our recent appointments have shown Jordan’s left shoulder blade is weak and…
Read More +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…
Read More +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…
Read More +HUGE good news
I just got word from our county coordinator to say we are still IN the program! When she was evaluated right before her birthday, her case manager was pretty certain Jordan would be out of the program. I immediately stressed about the loss of the incredible services she recieved from the organization: Access to equestrian…
Read More +Good news all around
I took Jordan to meet with her pediatric orthopedic specialist this week to make sure she doesn’t have any anomalies in her hips or spine. We decided to take this step after her physical therapist was concerned about a number of tiny issues with Jordan’s physical abilities and structure. It was so great to watch Jordan bravely…
Read More +A bunch of little things
We met with Jordan’s physical therapist today. We haven’t met with her in months and there have been a bunch of tiny things that have concerned us… Tiny things according to school include how Jordan falls down a little more than others sometimes. Tiny things like how I’ve noticed Jordan sometimes slouches. Her occupational therapist…
Read More +A natural
Miss Jordan is a natural with horses. It’s so cool to watch. She had equestrian therapy this afternoon and I got to watch everyone oooh and ahh about her ability to sit very upright even when she’s trotting with the horse. By the way, Jordan’s horse’s name is Thunder. She did so well today that…
Read More +The highs and lows
Miss Jordan has had some great highs and lows these days… First, she’s had to put up with me traveling a ton. The whole family has. I appreciate how they’ve dealt with it. In between all of that travel, Jordan continued to dance and started equestrian therapy. She LOVES it. To add to the fun,…
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