April Somethings (new and improved with some instagram photos)

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from this past month, here is something I...

...loved: 

Our anniversary.  We stayed at The Foshay, and they upgraded us to an incredibly large room on the 26th floor, overlooking Minneapolis.  We walked around the city during the day, eating yummy food and people watching.  And we walked over to the Orpheum to watch Mamma Mia.  It was a great anniversary.  Even in spite of Malachi unfortunately was sick and I unfortunately could not get much time off of work for it.  We still had a wonderful time!

...listened to:

...watched:

Season 2!  I liked season 1 a little better, but only because season 2 had so many things going on that the show couldn't keep up with itself.  They should have tried to spread those stories out a little more.  However, I'm definitely excited for season 3!

...read: 

A little of Walking the Twin Cities.  While on our anniversary trip we did a couple of the walks in this book, it led me right into Cocoa & Fig for my first macaron!

...learned:

I've recently watched Forks over Knives, FoodMatters, and Food, Inc.  One of the things that stuck with me was that 51% of each meal should be uncooked to keep the body from having an immune response.  I don't know how true that is, but it seems like a good idea.  That would mean more salads, and that would definitely be a good thing.

We Apologize For This Interruption of Your Regularly Scheduled Programming

Hello all!

I am going to be cutting back on the blog until my life settles back down a little bit.  Being in the middle of moves is just too time consuming.  I won't be posting my daily photos anymore.  I am going to try to still do the monthly "somethings", I will try to finish out the new york internship posts (even if it annoys the heck out of you, because I'm trying to get it out of my e-mail, but still obtainable), and I'm not quitting cold turkey, so if I have time I'll probably post a little.  But I'm writing this because it might also be that I stop all together for several months.

If you just can't get enough of me, I do have a lot of other forms of social media that I can be reached and/or stalked at (direct links are included).

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I have a Facebook (no link because if I know you, you already know that I am on facebook)

I have a Pinterest

I have Instagram - (sooo very happy that this is not just for iphones anymore)

I have a Twitter (but let me tell you, I do not and have never posted on this.  I basically use it to stalk people like Kristen Bell and Conan O'Brien and sign up for things that I don't want to give my facebook password to)

I have a Shelfari

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So as you can see, I'm certainly not in hiding.  And if you are happy that I will be posting less on the old blog, and quite frankly are getting sick of me, then you can just use that list above as a handy guide to know where to avoid me!

9/29/06

"day 24"

My advisor from Andrews called today to talk to my CI and me.  That made me feel a little uncomfortable.  I dont really know why even.  But afterwards Liz and I talked about what she had said to each of us and it made me feel better.  And I don't have to do an inservice! Woo hoo!  I just have to make a handout on how to use a walker for the inpatients in gait training to have. 

Speaking of gait training, we have a ZOO for inpatients right now!  There is the screaming lady, the loud screaming (but not out of pain, just because he's loud) man, the 400 lb man with the bilateral knee replacement that refuses to stand up, so he hasnt and its been about 4 days.  And random other people that make it nowhere near boring.

I had to do this one fibromylagia patient today all by myself.  This lady is my least favorite fibromylagia patient.  I think she only comes for the heat packs.  The exercises I think are more painful for me than her in just trying to get her to do them.  And I'm talking exercises such as laying on your back, clasping your hands behind your head with your elbows pointed towards the ceiling and then laying your elbows down onto the pillow as best as you can.  I could only get her to do it twice.

I'm feeling more useful now.  But I still have evaluation anxiety.  I just dont really know what to do because I was taught to do things differently, so I'm just trying to do my best compromise between the two methods.  But on some things that leaves me pretty confused on what to do.  I lean more towards what I was taught.  But ya, that's a bit stressful for me.  I just need to do more.  But I'm not legally allowed to touch medicaire patients, so that cuts down the number of evals that I do.  And all of the weird cases, like that vestibular lady yesterday, Liz doesnt have me do.  Which is nice because I am still working hard on the regular evals, but also, that cuts down on the amount that I get to do.  But I'm just talking about outpatient evals.  The inpatients are a piece of cake.  And I do those every day now pretty much. 

I think I'm gonna go walk around some stores to kill time.  It's friday!!!  This week flew by.  I can't believe there are only 3 more weeks!  It's supposed to freeze tonight.  I told everybody that I don't want it to snow before I leave because I dont want to drive in it.  But then, Dad, you can just drive all the way, and I'll sleep.  So I guess it doesnt really matter.  Hehe.  Okay, I'm gonna go.  Love ya lots!

Lyndsey

9/28/06

"day 23"

Our last patient today was a vestibular patient.  I feel so bad for her because she was positive on almost every balance and vestibular test we did.  She is a wreck.  And Liz didnt really know what to do.  She did a Hallpike Dix maneuver and the whole time I was thinking "wrong.  wrong.  wrong.  Well, thats right, but that other stuff was wrong."  But it wasnt life or death, so the patient will survive.  And hopefully she improves.  I'll keep ya posted.

The gym was extra loud today with the gait training patients.  One lady SCREAMED SO LOUD.  Ardie was mad.  She said "I cant hear very good out of my right ear because of a bilateral knee patient a couple years ago and now this lady just screamed in my good ear!"  It was funny.  And I walked this really cute lady around for a while and Liz was happy with me because I worked on her endurance a bit.  Safely and successfully, which is the best way.  And I'm getting better at all of my documentation.  There is just so many different types of documentation.

Also, I'm eating a caramel and chocolate covered apple from the apple festival that is VERY good, but is making me sick.  So I may have to waste alot of it.  AND, I'm getting a 4th roommate on sunday, its gonna be a full house.  And she has to sleep in the living room.  But she is an OT and will be here until December 15th.  Poor girl!

Love ya,

Lyndsey

9/27/12

"day 22"

Sherry was back today.  It's just so sad.  Here she is working and she HAS breast cancer!  And I've been thinking alot about it.  I mean, this woman has never drank, never smoked, she eats very healthy and she exercises.  Which is more than most people.  She gets a mammogram every year.  And that got me thinking about how I've heard that mammograms cause an increase in breast cancer, so I'm actually currently looking up some articles to support and oppose that way of thinking so I can figure out my own opinion of that.  And the thing is, the mammogram didnt even find the cancer.  She requested something else because she thought that under her arm felt a little more achey than usual.  So really its luck that she even caught it.

Today was normal.  I did a history on this one lady who might end up being my patient because I dont think Liz really likes her.  I did her ultrasound and taught her some exercises and stuff too, so I'll probably be keeping her. 

And sometimes gait training is fun.  We have this one big Texan guy who is alot of fun.  And we have a little guy with tremors who was singing away today because he thinks he's going home (but we don't know if he actually will be able to). 

But Kathy was VERY obnoxious today.  She was harrassing Ardie constantly.  Usually I try to ignore Kathy, but her nagging was putting me in a grumpy mood.  I mean, I didnt do or say anything, but I caught myself looking at her with disgust a few times.  Ardie is so nice and Kathy was probably just picking on her because she knows that Ardie wont bite back. 

Well, I have to go log on to our class's new chat room thing because now we are required to answer a weekly question from our advisor back at school.  I think she's getting bored, because she keeps adding on stuff to what we have to do on our clinicals. 

Love,

Lyndsey

9/26/12

"day 21"

Today was my midterm evaluation and I got good scores.  She apparently thinks I do better on my evals than I do.  Which is great! 

We got a patient today that had absolutely nothing wrong with her.  Her order said “improve strength.”  She was not weak.  She is the wife of the man with two watches who likes Becker.  And they both have mild mental disabilities, so we think that she just wanted to be able to be with her husband at therapy, but of course, she can just sit in the room with him.  Who knows.  Liz gave her some mini-squat and ab exercises. 

A lot of the patients were in a great mood today, so that was nice.  My favorite fibromyalgia patient was sooo happy.  She says she is healed.  She was showing off her new range of motion to us.  She even wanted to get a job there as an aide because she wanted to “work in the place that healed her”.  

After work my desi-roommate and I went to the I Love Lucy Museum…not that cool.  But I did get to see a real Emmy Award.  I think the playhouse will be cooler, we are gonna go to that next week maybe. 

And I called the car shop.  4:00 Monday.

Okay, we are watching I Love Lucy, so I gotta go.

Love,

Lyndsey 

9/25/06

"day 20"

Hey there!

 

Today was a really good day.  I did 2 or 3 inpatient evaluations and I rocked the house.  Uh....okay, I just did alright, but I'm getting better!  I also saw my own patient today and she is a exercise-a-holic so I'm trying to hold her back from overdoing it, but also I'm trying to keep her interested in therapy, so because she keeps asking me what else she can do, she's accumulated about a billion exercises.  And she gets me really racking my brain for appropriate exercises.  I've got her doing alot of theraband stuff and today she wanted some exercises she can do with her exercise ball, so I've got her doing Adduction by squeezing the ball and then quarter squats against the wall with the ball between her and the wall.  It's hard to think of good knee exercises with that ball. 

 

There is a crazy lady in gait training.  She is supposed to have mild dementia, but I think its more of moderate dementia if I do say so myself, she is ALWAYS saying something completely off the wall.  I don't know if I already told you this, but on friday I was cleaning the walkers and she asked me if I would spray some of the cleaner on her.  I told her that was not a good idea.

 

Oh, so Sherry's other lump in her breast is cancerous and now they are plannning on a mastectomy.  I feel so bad for her.

 

And bitter Kathy is stealing toilet paper and laundry bags from the department. 

 

Thats about all!  Love ya!

Lyndsey