An Interesting Discovery During Therapy

Jordan’s occupational therapist and I discovered something a few weeks ago during a session. We had added yoga poses into her life and when we introduced a simple toe-touching stretch. Jordan complained it was really hard. I figured she was pretending. Toe touching for me is so easy. How can it be difficult for an…

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"But It's So Hard, Mommy"

For almost all eight years I’ve written this blog, I’ve focused on Jordan’s health. Everything I do is focused on making sure she is strong mentally and physically. That’s why we’ve made a glorious return to occupational therapy to prevent periodic shoulder pain. Our recent appointments have shown Jordan’s left shoulder blade is weak and…

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Taping it Down

In a quest to combat Jordan’s recent complaints about shoulder pain, I took her to a new occupational therapist. We have a brand new plan of attack and Jordan is very excited. Introducing… Colorful tape! Jordan is working with kineso tape – it’s an elastic tape that targets muscles and helps train them to work…

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That Overwhelming Feeling

You know the feeling… when you start to realize all the things you need to get done and all the things your kids need… and it starts piling up and all you want to do is crawl into bed and take a nap because that just seems much easier? I had one of those moments…

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HUGE good news

I just got word from our county coordinator to say we are still IN the program! When she was evaluated right before her birthday, her case manager was pretty certain Jordan would be out of the program. I immediately stressed about the loss of the incredible services she recieved from the organization: Access to equestrian…

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Over already?

I can’t believe we wrapped up equestrian therapy a week ago for the year. The sessions have been incredibly awesome for Jordan this Fall and I hate to see it go. In the final session for the year, Jordan had a chance to earn a medal. And of course, she was very proud. I think…

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Riding, Soccer and the Web

Once again, I allowed life to keep us busy and I haven’t updated enough here. I have noticed that when I’m busy, I tend to share tiny moments online on Facebook and that gets republished onto  Twitter. While I wasn’t posting enough here, Jordan continues to wear her helper arm at school every day. This past…

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Helper arm success!

We had another successful day at equestrian therapy! Today was her second session since getting her new elbow helper arm. So she got to wear it with Thunder the horse. I don’t know proper horse terminology but she held on with both hands with leather handles attached to the saddle. But when it came to…

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Equestrian therapy returns

Jordan is back on her favorite horse Thunder this Fall. I’m so excited for her. This is her fifth session with the local therapeutic riding stables. We love it there, I love the people who works there and Jordan smiles such a huge smile with her favorite horse. This session I was pretty sure we…

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A bunch of little things

We met with Jordan’s physical therapist today. We haven’t met with her in months and there have been a bunch of tiny things that have concerned us… Tiny things according to school include how Jordan falls down a little more than others sometimes. Tiny things like how I’ve noticed Jordan sometimes slouches. Her occupational therapist…

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