Okay so since everyone keeps asking me all about therapy ..here it is I will answer most questions
Its like school, each session is 45 mins long with a ten min. break in between I have indidvidual therapies like just me and the therapists for physical, occupational and speech
Physical therapy is just me and Nadeen working on me walking and my strength in my left side…my left arm is working more than it was ..but its still soooo weak and I still call it Gimp
Occupational therapys is me working with Sherrie. She helps me on stuff that deals with everyday things like dealing with money, counting it and how much change I would get back, that kind of stuff so different from the hospital. Well first of all I actually like sherrie and its not focused so much on my left arm.. stuff I had to do in the hospital was just stuff I hated, I hated going soo much!!
Speech therapy works on my volume level which now I talk soo quiet and I will start breathing excercises too
I have group therapies too which I like a bunch..cause all the attention is less focused on just me but we all are working on our own dumbness, which its different with every person ..
We have cognitive group every single mornin and it’s a “class” first thing when we get there that gets our brain starting! We do all kinds of different stuff like organize our memory book(binder we have to bring with us everday)
AWARENESS GROUP: we just learn stuff that most people with a brain injury had trouble with being aware of.. I remember one class the therapist,Vicky, said whats hard to deal with when you are out of it for so long is that what was ever going on before its still going on..like if you were having money problems when you come back awake you still will have money problems
PSYCHOTHERAPY GROUP:this is with the psychatrist, Dr. Klein, and we mainly just sit and talk about whats going on with each one of us like what problems are we facing
MEMORY GROUP:we learn different strattegies on how to remember stuff
LIFE SKILLS GROUP: we plan our outtings, which is every Monday and Friday, we do whats called goal plan do review they say its what we do in our head anyway but now we say all the pieces and fill out a paper.. on all our outtings that I have been on they have been bowling, barnes and noble, and the indiana state musuem ..its just a chance to go out in the community as a group with people that have brain injuries but around other people that don’t have the brain injury
Okay now that I have explained everything..if you have a question and I didn’t answer it just ask me i dont mind
My only other updates are the fact that I can walk again ..i know aunt b already told ya’ll but I just wanted to say it again I have been waiting for forever and if ya know me well .. you might already know this how I named my car Harold and I saw this car that looked just like Harold and it made me so sad ..i miss that car so much I feel like I lost a best friend ..if ya think about it that car has seen me with everysingle emotion and he is always the first thing I go to.. and its been pretty banged up and still stood strong and his life is over just to save mine that’s the way I see it..so people say I might become depressed after the injury and stuff and if I do just know that’s why..my pooor harold is goneL its sooo sad i told my mama what has this world come to..drew is gone until the 20th and my harold is diceast so RIP HaroldL
Alright as my drew says..i will quit rambling lmao I just wanted to have one BIG explanation of therapy instead of answering the same questions a thousand times- so I am out of here ttfn
Until next time..-peace out 2
Adios-cassidy kaitlyn
