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Experimenting with Swimming
The summer swimming season is here! Miss Jordan decided that she’d get experimental while we were in the pool. Two days in a row, she asked to use her activity arm and two different hands while we were there. First, she gave her swimming arm a try – it’s a little paddle that could give…
Read More +Why we're going armless at the dance recital
I’ve been really impressed with Jordan’s use of her helper arm at dance class lately. It’s especially useful during the ballet half of her class. But after watching Jordan rehearse for the winter recital… I’m pretty sure we’re going to go arm free. She spent most of the dance repositioning the arm and missing steps.…
Read More +Seven jewels
It took the offer of seven jewels, but I got Jordan to help me present her story and her use of prosthetics to occupational therapy students this afternoon. Jordan and I visit the class once a year. I think it’s pretty awesome we’ve visited the class since 2006. It’s funny when we pulled up to…
Read More +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…
Read More +Trying to get creative
Over the weekend the whole family took Jordan to her soccer class. It’s focused on soccer skills and they don’t actually play games yet. She’s a good listener and I’m very proud to watch her in the big class as she kicks and stops and listens. This week I decided we should give her arms…
Read More +Wrapping it up… kind of
We had our last appointment today. I brought in my thoughts and ideas after the weekend. The two main ideas were how I thought the swim hand needed some holes to help with the drag from the water. And I also thought the new play arm was actually a little too long to manage the…
Read More +Testing it all out
We spent Saturday having a ton of fun in downtown Chicago… and I promise to post about our American Girl lunch. It was too adorable to not discuss. But I really want to show how Jordan found all kinds of ways to use her play arm on Sunday. We started out testing the new arm…
Read More +WOW! What a cool arm.
Our weekend isn’t even over yet… And I have to say, this one will be one for the books. Let’s start with Friday as we worked on day two of the helper hand building process. Jordan got her swimming arm AND her most amazing elbow arm. Seriously. It’s amazing. Jordan and Mr. David teamed up…
Read More +We're hanging in there
Jordan is having a bunch of fun this morning trying out her helper arm. She was a little hesitant hanging out with it last night. We’re about to head back to Mr. David’s office to finish the fitting for Jordan’s new elbow arm and the swimming attachment that goes with her play arm. Oh the…
Read More +Why prosthetics?
Jordan’s used prosthetics for a long time. We started when she was about six months old. She rolled over for the first time in a prosthetic office room. But the first helper arm didn’t last long and I knew we needed to expand our search for someone who could be creative for Jordan’s needs. At…
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