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Sam Started Speech Therapy Today


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The school opened up again after the mess we had the past couple weeks. She had her first session and it went pretty well. I don't think they knew what they were in for. The student therapist looked kind of dazed for a few minutes, but then she got into it. Very nice. She's going to get some good experience this semester.

 

Got out trout fishing for a few hours yesterday. Temp was around 40, but no wind, and sunny. We got 8. What a chore getting her out to the spot. Pulling a wheelchair backwards through snow and slush is no easy task. We must look like a couple of idiots doing this. We got a few strange looks, but what the heck. We had fun.

 

I saw a magazine called StrokeSmart at the therapist's office today. It's FREE and put out by the NSA. You can subscribe at stroke.org. Click on the magazine picture about halfway down on the left side of the page. I went through a few issues and it looked pretty interesting. I'm probably the only one who never saw it before. If anyone knows a place on the board post a link, it might be helpful. I'm not sure what topic to put it under.

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The magazine has been posted about many times, as has 'The Stroke Connection.'

 

Glad Sam is starting speech. Don goes back the Feb. 12th. We've always found the student therapists take a week or two to get used to applying their book learning to actual clients. But they all come through and general do a great job. Don's been going every semester since 2000 with a different student each time.

 

We live in Michigan with lots of snow and I'm always telling Don---when I'm taking him out in bad weather---that's it's time for us to learn to be old and stay home in bad weather. Going backwards with a wheelchair is sometimes the only way to get through. Life is full of laughs, isn't it, when you learn to laugh at yourself.

 

Jean

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