Hodgepodge of thoughts

I just got back into town a few hours ago, and my landlords handed me my 3 weeks worth of mail. Right on top was the newest OT Practice, June 25th edition, and my blog did make it in! Yay! I'm excited! If anyone wants to submit a guest entry, e-mail your post to the address listed in the header paragraph. I've spent most of my June break in California and then a few days visiting friends in Nashville, so please forgive me for the disjointed blog entries I've had this month. I start back in school in another week and hopefully things will smooth out then.

A random oddity...I told a woman at the airport with me that I was in occupational therapy school, since we were making idle chit-chat while waiting to board. She said oh yes, I've read a book about the pioneer of OT! I asked incredulously, you mean the book about Ora Ruggles called the Healing Heart? She said yes. I was shocked. I don't think I've met a single person yet who has read that book besides me (which is like the best book ever, but out of print and obscure and hard to find). She is a 68 year-old retiree from a little town in Tennessee. What a bizarre coincidence that she has read that book too.

The friend I've been staying with the last few days in Nashville just had rotator cuff surgery two weeks ago. I got to go to her physical therapy sessions on Wednesday and Friday as well as just get to experience in general what she is going through. She's pointed out to me things that will one day be helpful to me as an OT to remember with rotator cuff patients. Stuff like the sling getting sweaty or bothering her neck, how to make a slushy icepack using alcohol and water, buying clothes that don't require going overhead, how to put on deodorant (using Codmann's (????) position), etc. She has a pretty high pain tolerance and had a great surgeon, so she is healing nicely. And her physical therapist let me use his goniometer to measure her external rotation in the scapular plane! It was cool, I guess I get excited at the little things in life...

It's past 10pm here and I've had a long day of traveling, which included driving through a horrific storm and having to pull over on the side of a freeway for a while because the rain was so torrential. That was a rather harrowing experience. So I'm tired and going to go to bed, even though ideally I'd impress any new blog readers with a stunning & articulate new blog post (ha!).

Feel free to read old blog entries if you desire by clicking on the Older Posts link at the bottom, or clicking on the archives on the sidebar. Otherwise, check back soon, I'll try to post something interesting! Also, all the OT blogs and OT-related blogs I've listed on the sidebar are great reads.

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PS: The picture is of my California cat enjoying the sun...he liked it better when we'd sunbathe together.

On the road again....

Just can't wait to get on the road again...::warbles::

Anyway - had a great time with friends, but I am driving home today. It's about a 4 hour drive. I have another week before classes start, which is good since I have a lot to do to prepare! Once classes start it is going to be crazy, so I want to make sure my house is clean, my computer is organized, my syllabi/binders are in order, my pantries are stocked, etc. And most importantly, I want to get a chance to see my friends and hang out with them some, since I won't get to see my non-OT friends very often after next week. The craziness is nearing, aughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

It should be an exciting semester! It was great to have the month of June off to recover and steel myself for the upcoming onslaught!

Lessons come to life: observations in the NICU and SCU

Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH), Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC), Retinopathy of PRematurity (ROP), Gastroesophageal reflux (GER), Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD)...and lions and tigers and bears.

When our "Perspectives of Early Development" professor had us fill out a worksheet on common diagnoses seen in the neonatal ICU in preparation for a visit there, I was only mildly interested. I thought it was a little cool to read about all the crazy things that happen to preemies, but wasn't overly excited about things like "bronchopulmonary dysplasia". It was just medical terminology, just another thing to remember.

Then I did my first Level I fieldwork in a pediatric hospital. And all my learning suddenly came to life. Because it seemed like every single kid in the NICU and SCU had a spectrum of respiratory, cardiac, neurological, and gastrointestinal problems. (Duh, that's why they are there!!!) They all seemed to have G-tubes or NG tubes, nasal cannulaes, ostomy bags, you name it. It was shocking to realize that in the two weeks I was there, I probably only saw a child feed by mouth once or twice. Their charts were filled with abbreviations like BPD, IVH Stage III, NEC, ROP...they all struggled to breathe and threw up constantly. The lucky ones had Nissens (although I recently read a really interesting post on why Nissens aren't that great of an idea somewhere in Ryntales.blogspot.com, who is a mother who spent like half a year in the NICU with her baby). ANYWAY, I learned all about things like looking for conjugate gaze, bilateral reaching, flexion, muscle tone, oxygen saturation levels, and more. It was so fascinating. All the beeping monitors and the babies protruding tubes were a little bit overwhelming at first, but with a great OT at the helm showing me the ropes, it all became a little bit more normal and a little less alien. Those kids need all the OT they can get!

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I'm still out of town but plan to be back late Saturday. School starts back a week into July, so I'll have some new material to discuss pretty soon!

OTs put the FUN in functional

Hey readers (all like, six of you), I'll be in a travelling flux until Wednesday, so don't expect anything new for a few days. I leave you with this to check out if you are bored:


www. cafepress.com has some great OT t-shirts. Just search for "occupational therapy" there or along those lines and see what pops up. My two favorites say something like:

"OTs put the fun in functional"

"OT makes Every Day Independence Day"

You can also create your own OT t-shirt there!

The t-shirt posted is just a random one I found on google images, though. :)

A Snail's Pace: Patience is a Virtue

It's hard to sit on my hands. Whether I am helping a kid, a peer, or my grandma, I have a difficult time being patient. I like to be efficient, and when I watch someone do something slowly, it makes my skin crawl. In everyday life, it often doesn't matter who does the task, and frequently it is easier for everyone if the fastest person does it. In rehabilitation, it's a different story.

I bet that most OT's have had to sit on their hands constantly. OTs are usually efficient multi-taskers, and the USA has a fast-faced society, chronologically bound. With insurance time-limits and overscheduling, there isn't always the luxury of waiting for a patient to finish a task on their own time. Just in my limited years of observation, I've often watched in admiration as the OT does patiently watch and not help while a patient slowly completes some activity. I feel like yes, some OTs are naturally more patient than others, but that it is probably mostly a learned skill, cultivated from days, months, years of practice in a rehab setting.

At several points during the semester, our class has been able to observe people with various issues who were subsequently very slow to handle ADLs like grooming, dressing, cooking, etc. There has been several times where I have been in pure and utter agony while watching someone complete a task s l o w l y, because I wanted to help so badly . I know I am not the only one who felt that way, because I would watch some of the other students fidget or held their hands clasped behind their back, as if they knew their hands would flutter to help if left free. After a few minutes of watching these tasks, I always just want to scream ENOUGH ALREADY PLEASE LET ME HELP YOU FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THIS WORLD!!!!!!!! Luckily, the screams stay in my head.

Now, I realize the whole point is for the client to be independent, and that it certainly isn't easy with a bunch of people watching, and that it is amazing the clients have the patience to keep trying without any visible frustration. So it is not that I don't understand or realize the point of these exercises (usually to show us how assistive devices work or alternate ways to do something). They are great learning experiences and very helpful for a variety of reasons. But more than anything else, they are HUGE reminders to me that I need to work (a lot) on the virtue of patience.

I will have to sit on my hands quite a bit in the beginning, and slowly cull the experience needed to help me figure out when the patient has reached their frustration overload and I should intervene, versus when I should sit there serenely, benignly encouraging and verbally cuing the patient, hands OFF!

*Disclaimer: as always, all names, details, situation changed - only the moral lesson remains the same.

Don't judge a book by its cover

This is another lesson I learned while on my first fieldwork in a pediatric hospital a few months ago, which I found while looking through my journal. Absolutely all aspects of the situation have been changed for confidentiality reason, but the lesson remains the same. Fake details included only because it makes it more interesting!

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Our next patience was a young boy accompanied by his parents. At first glance, they appeared very out of place in a hospital setting. *They were covered in tattoos and piercings, with brightly dyed hair and ripped clothing with inappropriate slogans.* OR: *They were an older couple, clearly recent immigrants that didn't speak much English* OR: *They were a younger couple, dressed as if they had been out all night clubbing* They appeared ill-at-ease and tense. I steeled myself to observe rude, uncaring parents.

As the OTs started talking to the parents, I realized immediately how wrong I had been in my initial assessment. They were caring and kind and clearly cared very much about their child. They spoke in broken language spattered with grammatical errors, but what mattered is that their words were filled with love. The parents pointed out some of the problems their child was having, and the OTs talked with them about the issues needing intervention versus those that might be outgrown on their own. It was a good visit and it was clear the couple would do whatever necessary for their beloved child.

It may not sound like rocket science to realize you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but it was really an eye-opening moment for me. I realized appearances are not always as they seem. An individual can be well-dressed and well-educated and be a horrible parent, while an oddly-dressed or odd-looking individual might be an amazing parent. It was a good lesson to learn early.

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Update: Merrolee (New Zealand educator, blog on sidebar) and I exchanged several e-mails about this post. Originally, I just focused on the couple looking odd. But we discussed (ok, she explained and I listened/agreed) that this post isn't really just about appearance. It could be the language, the demeanor, the interaction type, the skin color, the language, the cultural norms...anything that would potentially cause an OT to make a snap judgment about that person. The lesson is still the same - we must suspend judgment and realize that person might have a lot to offer that we don't realize due to our (erroneous) first-glance assumptions of their capabilities. In my case, the original lesson I learned from this experience was that appearance isn't always what it seems. With Merrolee's guidance the lesson has dug in a little deeper to include all first impressions, whether it is cultural, social, or physical. She pointed out some interesting issues regarding confidentiality as well as cultural differences due to New Zealand's diverse background, so hopefully she'll consider writing a post about that! (Hint Hint)

Typical feeding session

I have been able to attend several feeding sessions during my first semester of OT school. I kept a very detailed journal of these sessions, although obviously I can't share it in that form since it would violate HIPAA. I've therefore modified all the details about the session in this post, so that the information about the specific children is left out and only the treatment approach remains. Names changed too.

Sometimes feeding sessions are needed in OT or SLP due to a child having a host of oral issues including hyper or hyposensitivity and possibly sensory defensiveness. The OT I was observing, Connie, told me that she has had some children cover their eyes in panic when watching her eat something they find repugnant, such as pancakes due to their mushy quality. The sessions I watched were co-treats with a great SLP. Connie had me set up with washcloths, soapy water, and several large towels. I was inwardly thinking huh? Then the SLP came in with a ton of food from the cafeteria – turkey, green beans, cheerios, Doritos, pudding, goldfish crackers, etc. We were operating off this feeding workshop called SOS which discusses the 32!!!! Steps of feeding and how complicated it really is, and ways to help children with feeding difficulties. This is made even harder for the many kids who have tactile defensiveness, since they don't want to even touch food.

Apparently, the same procedure is used pretty much every time in order to accustom the child to the routine. The food varies slightly based on the child's particular needs, but follows specific rules set by the SOS program, such as making sure each subsequent food shared a trait with the previous food. Of course that's a simplified explanation. Anyway, here is how a typical feeding session would go, using this SOS program.

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We started by all sitting at a table with the soapy basin. We each received a washcloth and had to dip the washcloth in the soapy water, squeeze it out, and wash our hands with it. Then put our washcloth behind our chair. The wet washclothes were present in case a child feels the need to wipe their face or hands, when dealing with foods that bother them.Then get a dry one to wipe off, and do the same. I was primarily there as a social modeler, ie doing whatever everyone else did, to show the child its normal, natural, give some mild peer pressure, etc. Connie then brought out some chocolate pudding and put a spoonful of it on all of our plates (sometimes the child is encouraged to pass out the food so that the child can feel in control). We then discussed its texture, its color, dipped it in our fingers, painted with it, licked it, experimented with it on our face, etc. We then moved on to another brown food, cheerios. We dropped these to hear the sound they made, discussed how they were crunchy, made patterns in the pudding, discussed color and shape. We then moved on to French fries, which are also brown. We discussed their long shape, pretending they were earrings, eyebrows, walking them around, discussing how soft they were, how we could tear them apart, how we could take a bite and move it around on our tongue, hide it in our mouth, spit it out…then we got out ketchup for the fries.

After the French fries I believe we moved on to another round object – green beans. At some point we moved onto goldfish crackers, which were popular. (I think I forgot a food or two in this since you wouldn't go from green beans to goldfish crackers.) We discussed crunchiness, color, and so on. Then it was time for Doritos which are also orange, and triangles. Again, crunchiness was discussed. Now it was time to bring out another triangle – TURKEY MEAT. The OT pushed this into triangles and gave it to us and we ended up having to eat the Dorito and turkey meat together! The OT, Connie, gagged when she ate the Dorito-turkey but hid it well. I wanted to laugh.

Throughout this entire experience, we all had to smile, act enthusiastic, chew with our mouths wide open, make exaggerated swallows, chomps, show the food in our mouth, show our tongue and talk animatedly about how we use our STRONG TEETH, how the food goes into our mouth and into our TUMMIES, etc, etc.

At clean-up time, OT Connie and the child have to “blow” their food into the trash can. I was REALLY glad I did not have to do this part. They essentially have to bite into every food on their plate, and then spit it out into the trashcan. Many children balk at this since it involves having things in their mouth they don't like. However, since the point is for enjoyment and not aversion, they aren't pushed overly hard with this. Overall it has been fascinating to watch feeding sessions. I really enjoyed the learning experience!

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This is a picture of my favorite picnic sandwich while in CA - french bread, mortadella, brie, and chips. Yum. So eating a Turkey-Dorito in feeding group didn't make me gag because it's YUMMY!

There's no "I" in TEAM...groupwork.

I'm the tiniest bit bummed that if my blog address does get put in OT Practice (it might not!), people will be finding it while I am on my mini summer break. I don't start back in school again until early July, so I don't necessarily have a lot to talk about that is truly OT-student related for the next few weeks.

We haven't gotten our grades yet, which I am waiting eagerly for, but we are starting to get new syllabi posted on "Blackboard". In one of our upcoming classes we will be taking wood-working, and we also need to find a ceramics class and a leather-working class on our own time. We also have about ten bazillion group projects. I'll admit it, I find group projects tedious and frustrating. But I also know they are good for us, and that as an OT in Rehab, we are pretty much ALWAYS going to be involved in teams, so I guess we need the practice in working together.

When y'all were in school, did you have to do a ton of group projects? Or as educators now, do you assign a lot of group projects? What are your thoughts on it?

When I am in a group project with one other person who carries their weight, I can understand the value of a group project, because the work can kind of be cut in half. But once there are more than two people, and especially if there are four or five, I start to lose my understanding of the value, because it seems like everything gets inefficient. Perhaps I just need to learn better group skills. Maybe that's the point of all this group work.

OT Practice & Blogging

A few months back in AOTA's OT Practice there was an article on blogging, Second Life, and podcasting, by Dr. Fran Babiss. It was really interesting and reminded me of how hard it had been to find any OT blogs at all, especially by OT students. Reading that article motivated me to start this blog that same day. I also wrote in to OT Practice that same inspired day to share my new blog address. There is a chance they will publish the address in the next OT Practice, since they were compiling a bunch of responses to the article to put in a forum. At the time I wrote in, I did not know of a single OT blog. Now of course I know about the few students (Patti, Aishel, Aishah), Merrolee's amazing group, and a few other solitary OT bloggers like Will Wade (all linked on my sidebar). I'm glad we have a core group, but I sincerely hope that we'll get some new bloggers soon! I especially personally have an interest in seeing more blogs by practicing clinicians and students.

We'll see if the address gets published (we'd know before the end of June) and if so, hopefully it will have a domino effect where we will all get a few more readers!!

Mental Health: Autobiography Poem

To me, the poem below describes exactly what OTs try to teach their patients when working in the mental health field.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN FIVE SHORT CHAPTERS

by Portia Nelson

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I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
I fall in.
I am lost ... I am helpless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes me forever to find a way out.

II

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I am in the same place
but, it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.

III

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in ... it's a habit.
my eyes are open
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.

IV

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

V

I walk down another street.

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PS: I took this picture in my house. A bazillion mental dollars to anyone who can figure out what it is. Hint: It's not a neuron. But it kinda looks like one, so it's a wonderfully subtle (until now) picture for a mental health post!!

Hallmark OT Appreciation Cards

Do you ever get thank you cards from patients? It's not like you can go to Hallmark and buy special OT Appreciation cards.

But if I worked for Hallmark these are the kind of cards I would make:

I like to sing and I like to dance... and thanks to my OT I can don and doff my pants.

I can only move against gravity,
I guess that gives me a muscle strength of three.
But here's my OT walking through the door,
soon I'll have a muscle strength of four!!

Thanks to OT I can get to the loo..even if it is a max assist x 2.

I don't need any whistles or bells...
thanks to OT I can complete my ADLs.

PS: This is a picture of the snail-dessert we made my grandfather for Father's Day, while visiting him in Berkeley. It involves a madeleine cookie, whipped cream, berries, and butterfinger crumbles. Assembled on a colored cutting board. My sister and I were quite proud of our creativity.

Every book I've read so far mentions OT at least once...

Since most of the books I've been reading for fun come from the Health section, a lot of them involve rehab/hospital stays, so there's been at least one mention of OT in almost all of the books. It's interesting to see the evolution of OT. In books like The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, when OT is mentioned it is only in regards to crafts, since that is an older book. Yet in the book I just read about the first ventilator-dependent quadriplegic to graduate from Harvard (Miracles Happen), the OT actually fits our current notion of an OT, helping the family find ways to make things easier. Unfortunately, most of the books mention OT only briefly, and usually in a context that makes it clear it was of no help at all (like in Girl, Interrupted). That definitely disappoints me. Oh well, it just inspires me to work harder. Because if any of my patients ever write a book, I want to be enthusiastically mentioned as being a big help!!

Right now I'm in Berkeley, CA right now with my mom, visiting my grandfather & his wife, as well as my twin sister. Today we're headed to a special gravelly beach with very tiny rocks my mom used to collect as a child, and then we're having a bread & cheese picnic. Fun! Gotta go!

Goniometry

Me: Mom, at some point during this trip I'm going to measure you with a goniometer.

Mom: How are you going to measure my gonads?!!!

How I like to learn and why I blog

Hi all,

All posts for the month of July will be from California, so all the pictures I include are probably random but cool (at least in my eyes) pictures that I took while here.

I have several reasons for being a MOT student blogger. Some reasons are more selfish than others. It helps me keep track of what I am doing, it helps me reflect about what I am doing, it allows me to be part of an OT network with other therapists and students, and it hopefully allows future or current students to see what different programs are doing, and that we are all experiencing similar hopes and doubts. I know that my favorite things to read on other OT-related blogs are the more personal accounts of experiences in the clinical OT world, because that's what will eventually be doing. Merrolee pointed out to me another blog post by "OT Otago" (see sidebar), where the author said she would be interested to know what kind of things help students learn or get them excited. By the way, I'd like to know what gets teachers excited!!!

I think that for me personally, since everybody learns differently, I enjoy being taught something, and then interacting in some manner that uses that new knowledge, immediately. Whether that's through a quick quiz, or just discussing it, I just like immediate interaction. I also really enjoy getting to go over case studies, although it seems we're always left hanging as to the best or final answer. I also wish we could use more creativity in learning. Like writing up our own case studies for other students to analyze, or for example, learning about a diagnosis, and then writing a short story where we imagine how it would feel if we were the ones with that diagnosis. The more personal the information is, the more likely we are to retain it.

Let's say, to use something I just became aware of, that we learned about focal dystonia one day. Ok, that's fine. I'll memorize the basics and regurgitate it on a test and get an A. But a week later, I'll forget what it was, because it didn't mean anything to me besides rote memorization. But now let's say the professor says, "think of the kinds of jobs that would be affected by this diagnosis. Now let's say you are a pianist. What then? How would you feel? What would you do? Go home and research this focal dystonia further, and how it would relate to a pianist on physical, emotional, social, cultural, and economic levels."

THAT would help it stick. Luckily, many of my current professors are pretty good about incorporating personal learning or some creativity into their classes, so that helps.

One project I fondly remember was in my undergrad abnormal psychology course, we had to diagnose a cartoon or TV character with a certain DSM-IV diagnosis, then present on why we gave that person that diagnosis, using evidence from things the person has said/done. My partner and I diagnosed Karen Walker, from Will & Grace, with antisocial personality disorder. She also had major problems with substance abuse. Someone else diagnosed Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes with ADHD. And so on. It was fun and memorable.

Now of course, I could just go home and do these personally-enriching, creativity-enhancing things on my own, but realistically, I'm so busy while in school that I'm probably not going to go the extra mile to do that. In conclusion though, what makes me tick is when we not only get to learn something, but immediately apply it. Preferably creatively, although that doesn't happen as often as I'd like. Overall though, my OT program and classes are pretty fascinating.

A little light reading...

I hit the library today to get books for my cross-country flight. I read ridiculously fast, and there is nothing worse in the world than being stuck in an airport with nothing to read. And I refuse to buy $30 books in the airport bookstore that I'll be done with in a few hours. Around 15 smallish books will last me the 10+ hours of flying/waiting.

I have said it before and I've said it again, as a future OT I will be potentially dealing with a wide variety of diagnoses and people of all ages. The more I know about random things, the better! So I hit up the health section at the library and grabbed autobiographies (or similar - key is that it is written from a personal perspective and sharing stories), from a bunch of the different sections. But ok, the whole OT thing is just an excuse, I'd read these kind of books anyway. :) I just think it will benefit me one day as an OT!

1. Sacred Space: Stories from a Life in Medicine, by Clif Cleaveland, MD
2. Sarah's Song by Janice Burns, about a couple with HIV.
3. Planet of the Blind, a Memoir, by Stephen Kuusisto
4. The Things I want Most by Richard Miniter, about life with an emotionally disturbed foster child.
5. Miracles Happen, by Brooke and Jean Ellison, about a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic graduating from Harvard.
6. Kevin and Me: Tourette Syndrome and the Magic Power of Music Therapy, by Patricia Heenan
7. When Evening comes, The Education of a Hospice Volunteer, by Christine Andreae
8. Angel-head, my brother's descent into madness, by Greg Bottoms
9. Food and loathing, a life measured out in calories, by Betsy Lerner
10. Needles, memoir of growing up with diabetes. By Andie Dominick
11. Babyface, by Jeanne McDermott, about a child born with Apert syndrome (odd genetic craniofacial condition)
12. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, about a man with the kind of stroke that leaves you paralyzed but your mind is intact. He wrote it (very slowly) with the blink method.

And to round it all off, a couple Harry Potter's to re-read and a few crappy (but interesting) Chicken Soup for the Souls :) I'm set!


UPDATE: See the comments section. The wife of the man who wrote Planet of the Blind also has a blog, at www.planet-of-the-blind.com. The book was really an interesting read and I recommend you check out both the book and blog!

School vacation = brain fog

We're on break for the month of June (minus a few projects due), and I already miss the people in my class. Well, of course not EVERYONE, but most of them! I'm about to head to California for a few weeks to visit family, but OT will certainly be in my brain. I might even take my goniometer and measure all my family's joint angles...haha.

And impress them with my vast knowledge of cranial nerves and wrist bones, because everyone knows, those come up all the time in random conversation...

Nobody has been posting much lately in the OT crowd....I'm personally going to beat Patti and Aishel over the head, as fellow OT students, if they don't suddenly come up with something new. I was heartened to see Merrolee and a few others have recently posted some thought-provoking posts. In a day or two when my brain fog clears up I'll have to respond with my insightful yet witty, clever and intriguing, amazingly loquacious yet not sesquipedilian-like posts. Just kidding, I totally don't know what I just said. Anyway, I'm tired and going to bed!

Karen
P.S: I really love reading about patient-therapist interactions/stories, if anyone decides they want to share on their blog!! I still laugh about Patti's "occupational terrorist" story.

This OT blog is making me OT blogging mad.

So when I search for "OT blog" on Google, I'm on like the third page. Lots of irrelevant blogs come up first that have nothing to do with OT. I think it's because I don't say OT blog enough. So I'm going to say it again. OT blog. OT blog. Find me, Oh Googley Master. I proclaim to the skies, OT BLOG OT BLOG OT BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those who love OT blogs, must visit this OT blog, because it is an OT blog.

There, I feel like (OT BLOG) that is enough (OT BLOG). I won't even be clever and put in any (OT BLOG) subliminal (OT BLOG) messages. But wait, I feel the urge to share one more time:

OT BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!!! OT BLOG!!!!!!!! OT BLOG! FIND ME FIND ME FIND ME FIND ME!! OT BLOG ! OT BLOG! I AM YOURS!!!!!!!!

Ok, I'm going to stop talking about OT blogs now.
Sincerely,
An OT Blogger, writing an OT blog
PS: Maybe I should say "occupational therapy blog" instead. Hmm...

Update: It totally worked! I just checked a day later, and I'm now at the end of the first page on google search instead of on the third page! Yay for OT blogs!

I'm still alive, I swear...

Sorry for the delay in updates. I need to finish a research paper. Then I can finally look forward to this month break!

I also need to brainstorm a good blog post! Any ideas???