Coaching the Comeback

Here's an article in the NYT highlighting a day of OT Jodi Levin at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation.

Incidentally, our class watched Murderball this past week. It tells the story of the US quadriplegic wheelchair rugby team during the 2000 and 2004 Paralympics. One of the players from the US team gives a lecture at Kessler and inspires a recently injured patient to take up rugby. There was a quote from the film that stuck in my mind:

"Your mind becomes a bigger disability than the physical stuff."
- Andy Cohn, Murderball

Then of course I get the bright idea that if still go through with our plans of going back to the Philippines this summer to visit my grandmother, we could swing by Beijing and check it out. But of course, the time that we'll be in that neck of the woods, the Paralympics will be held elsewhere. Something about Olympics being held at that time. Oh well. There's London 2012 to look forward to!

Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture

I watched his lecture a while back. Now ABC is airing it (or some variant of it) tonight. To oversimplify, he puts things in perspective.

Go. Watch. Here. Or here.

Random entry: Look! It's raining ice cubes!

So, of course I had to take a picture. I know hail can get bigger than this but this is the biggest I've ever seen. Watching the hail come down, it looked like a huge ice tray being dumped on the ground.

OK, back to homework.

Back to the Basics

So right now, we're trying to figure what we'd want to do/where we want to go for Fieldwork II. The fleeting thought crossed my mind that I'd want to go to Australia, Hong Kong, or Philippines, all of which I have friends/relatives I could stay. Then I came across this video that describes OT in Singapore. I think they they did a fantastic job covering the basic question: "What is occupational therapy?"



Although I'd love to go overseas, I think I would miss my kids, my husband.. you know, blahblah mushy mom/wife stuff.. though it is only 6 months. Still, I suppose I'll stay in the western hemisphere.

I'm still curious though: anyone from Asia/Australia/any other part of the world that may be considered unique to that region? Are there any differences in practice between East and West coasts? I know a lot of it depends on the type of facility but I'm just wondering what's out there.