[Magdalen] Mom update (Elicits "Whew!").

[Sal]

Been meaning to say...thinking of you Mike and praying for a smooth transition. 

Apparently, it's Occupational Therapy month! I now work in an interdisciplinary team with OTs and really appreciate their amazing skills especially with kids and frail elders. 

To add my cents worth from this experience, an OT assessment is invaluable especially wrt falling. The patients do fall in frail care/assisted living and if someone has a history of falls, it's useful to know why they lose balance. It could be due to one or more of several possibilities. 

Sally D 

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On 11 Oct 2014, at 4:12, "M J [Mike] Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>>>> It should be good from the point that she will see more people, too. That's
> always a plus.<<<
> 
> With the proviso that what I'm about to relate was last month, before the current news, I will say that exec dir told me that last month during the September Birthdays special party/meal (she's 86 now) she was especially chatty and engaging, much more than he'd ever seen her be (and he's had meals with her every now and then over time to keep at least a little tabs on such things).
> 
> Indeed, more people will be good.  And if anything, I'm seeing the need for a quick visit finally one of these days.  Hey, Christmas is right around the corner, and the County shuts down between Xmas and New Year's ("Eco Recess"; what I call "Carbon Holiday"), so that would be perfect.
> _________________________________________
> "O perplexed discomposition, O riddling
> distemper, O miserable condition of man!"
> - The Rev Mr John Donne
> (in a not-so-chipper moment)