Happy V=day!
I love getting on here and spending a couple of hours reading and catching up on everybody's lives. I'll make an effort to read more often.
My second semester of school is going by swimmingly. I have one class that is stressing me out, otherwise I'm enjoying the academic part. As for my clinic placements, I could NOT be happier. I have a client who stutters and one with articulation problems (from connected vocal folds at birth and a trach)at the east campus. I'm also at Le Bonheur this semester and I want to work there when I graduate...or at least somewhere comparable. The therapists there do mostly home visits, but I'm actually at the early intervention building all day on Tuesdays. I have four clients that are all around 2 and they are PRECIOUS. Two of them have trachs still, so I'm getting to learn all about what that entails.
The coolest session of the day is feeding group. We have three to four kids with feeding difficulties, serious stuff, like being 2 and only eating yogurt. We follow a feeding hierarchy with seven foods each session. The goal is for them to eat, but to get there they get to play, going through each step until they are able to tolerate eating. It is a blast. We pretend crackers are cars and they go up our arm, vanilla pudding is lotion and we rub it in our face. My little kid blows me kisses every time before he leaves, I want to snatch him up!
In V-Day related news, Andrew is taking me on a surprise trip tonight. I only asked that we would not go out to eat. Waiting for 2 hours before getting crappy service and bad food because the wait staff are effing worn out and pissed cause they have to be there is not my idea of a good time.
Oh, Andrew is turning old-man 25 in March. I think we are going to have dinner and drinks in Jackson (to make things easier on travelers) on Feb 28th. If anyone wants to come hang out, let me know!
My second semester of school is going by swimmingly. I have one class that is stressing me out, otherwise I'm enjoying the academic part. As for my clinic placements, I could NOT be happier. I have a client who stutters and one with articulation problems (from connected vocal folds at birth and a trach)at the east campus. I'm also at Le Bonheur this semester and I want to work there when I graduate...or at least somewhere comparable. The therapists there do mostly home visits, but I'm actually at the early intervention building all day on Tuesdays. I have four clients that are all around 2 and they are PRECIOUS. Two of them have trachs still, so I'm getting to learn all about what that entails.
The coolest session of the day is feeding group. We have three to four kids with feeding difficulties, serious stuff, like being 2 and only eating yogurt. We follow a feeding hierarchy with seven foods each session. The goal is for them to eat, but to get there they get to play, going through each step until they are able to tolerate eating. It is a blast. We pretend crackers are cars and they go up our arm, vanilla pudding is lotion and we rub it in our face. My little kid blows me kisses every time before he leaves, I want to snatch him up!
In V-Day related news, Andrew is taking me on a surprise trip tonight. I only asked that we would not go out to eat. Waiting for 2 hours before getting crappy service and bad food because the wait staff are effing worn out and pissed cause they have to be there is not my idea of a good time.
Oh, Andrew is turning old-man 25 in March. I think we are going to have dinner and drinks in Jackson (to make things easier on travelers) on Feb 28th. If anyone wants to come hang out, let me know!