Jillian's PT went to school at Marquett and her former therapist is an instructor there. They had asked us a few months back if we would be willing to participate in a lab for PT students in their last year of school. Jillian was all excited!
It was a fun experience. Their plan was to have several kiddos there that he cardio and/or pulmonary needs and PT needs, however they ended up having some other kids cancel so it was just Jilli and one other kiddo. This meant that Jillian had a bunch of students working with her which at first she found intimidating however she quickly turned on the charm. They had to do an eval for PT and evaluate their cardio and breathing needs. They did notice a slight wheeze in Jillian's lungs however that is not uncommon.
There were two labs so Jillian was evaled for an hour, then students presented, then we had a break and then the second group came in an evaled for an hour.
By the second group Jillian caught on to what they wanted her to do. She also caught onto how to get her way. At one point she had over 10 collage students following her down the hallway and she was playing red light green light with them. She decided to go explore the collage! She is something else!
Overall the day was fun and I hope the students learned a lot.
I started to get a migraine the last two hours of the lab so sadly I was not able to enjoy it as much as I would have liked to.
Once we were done Jilli and I stopped for some coffee to try to help my head. We then met Dan and Brent at Stir Crazy for dinner. By this point my head hurt so bad meds were not touching it and I did not really eat dinner. Our service was sssslllllooooowwwww especially for a Thursday night. We were finally done and the boys dropped of Brent's car at work, Brent came back and drove Jillian and I home and Dan went to his house to get clothes and drove to our house to spend the night. The boys then carpooled into work today since Brent's car was still there. I'm thankful the boys were able to help because there was not way I could have driven home.
Jillian had neuro-psych testing done. Once I have the full results back I will blog about those... we wil see, in our breif meeting with the guy after the testing I was not a fan of a few things he said because I don't agree with them (he said Jillian has attention issues, I'm a teacher, I get kiddos who struggle with attention, my kid who played with playdough by herself for 45min this morning is not concerning to me for attention needs but we will see what the formal report has to say, I'm trying not to make judgements til then)
So thats the fun we have been up to the past couple weeks!
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| My little doctor |
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| Jillian the train |
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| Sent Brent to Walgreens to pick up her meds and he came home with a "foot piano" as Jillian calls it |
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| She loves doing art projects! |
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