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blast from 2006?
I stumbled across this from my first semester of OT school.....blast from the past, manI've gotten more used to the cadaver lab - I'm still not thrilled with it and it really makes my back ache but I've gotten more confident in my ability to not ruin anything, and more used to the smell. This past week we cut open the rib cage and took out the heart. During the embalming process some of the blood gets congealed and stuck. There were huge, revolting "sticks" of blood stuck in the holes of the heart. Yuck. Plus our guy's heart was covered in like a brown gravy. One table had a HUGE heart, it looked ...
Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G) - June 14, 2013 Category: Occupational Therapists Source Type: blogs

Sorry for such a long hiatus
Things have not been great here, so I haven't had the energy to post in a long time. I presented at conference and that's kind of the last of my OT passion I have had for a while, but I do know I fundamentally love my profession and just need to find that inner sparkle again. I blogged for six years straight so I guess a little break from blogging isn't the end of the world. Summer starts soon so that will be a good time to try to focus on the blog again, and get my children's book illustrated so I can publish! One thing I recently learned about that I had never thought about is using a LABELMAKER for kids ...
Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G) - June 9, 2013 Category: Occupational Therapists Source Type: blogs

AOTA conference this weekend + presenting on Saturday
(To the sound of Music)THE FEEEEEDSSS ARREEE ALLIVEEEEEE ....wittth the sounddd of........CONFERRRENNNNCEEEEEE......Yep. Every other Facebook and Twitter feed is about getting to San Diego for our 2013 AOTA conference. That either means I am exaggerating, or I have a lot of OT friends.  Or more likely, a mixture of both.I'm going to be going Friday, Saturday, and possibly Sunday morning....but after running around at work all week I think I may be pretty tired. I've decided all treatments on Wednesday and Thursday will consist of supine extension with vision occluded.....aka nap position. hahahaha just kidding. C...
Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G) - April 24, 2013 Category: Occupational Therapists Source Type: blogs

Loved this photo album
http://imgur.com/a/YjHXNhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/17/little-prince-matej-peljhan-photos_n_3102439.html "In a photo series entitled "The Little Prince," Matej Peljhan, a Slovenian photographer, brings Luka's imagination to life by including the 12-year-old in a variety of lifelike scenes." (Luke has muscular dystrophy) (Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G))
Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G) - April 19, 2013 Category: Occupational Therapists Source Type: blogs

The best cheer me up ever, ahahahaha
A friend sent this to me via e-mail  (who knows I have been feeling down). She was trying to cheer me up. It made me smile. Just sending the applicable part.  "Still, I feel like you have an inner strength and light that can't be held back or extinguished. I'm serious! Maybe it's your Miss Awesomeness spirit woman. She is really a superhero to the kids she comes across. And when kids see her, they never forget her. Their hearts cry in joy when she passes by their classroom.  I can describe her for you:On her head: A crown of 1,000 miniature party balls with multicolored glassAround her neck: A sloth, ...
Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G) - April 18, 2013 Category: Occupational Therapists Source Type: blogs

Happy OT Month :)
This photo was done by the University of St Augustine, in FL, for OT Month! (Always April). So awesome!Consider uploading your own versions on Facebook, Twitter, blogs...with OT that you wrote in sand, with rocks, with Wikki Stix, Theraputty, bodies, silverware, anything you can think of.... (Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G))
Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G) - April 18, 2013 Category: Occupational Therapists Source Type: blogs

Believe in Heroes
<iframe width="853" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wrzs_SGH_a0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Erik (OT Army Guy) made this. Amazing :) In case it doesn't work as embedded:https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wrzs_SGH_a0 (Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G))
Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G) - April 14, 2013 Category: Occupational Therapists Source Type: blogs

Graduation presents?
We have OT students graduating right around now...what are good graduation presents for OT students????? I was just asked and I was stumped. For those of you about to graduate, or who have graduated, what are presents you wish you could receive, or have received??? Any suggestions appreciated.I have ONE more day of work to get through - one more meeting, a presentation, and some odds and ends - and then two weeks to get my act together! Phew! I think I can I think I can!  (Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G))
Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G) - March 29, 2013 Category: Occupational Therapists Source Type: blogs

Spring break fever...
Spring break starts next weekend and I'm glad about that, because I desperately need a break. This last month or so has been rough! It's all I can do to go to work each day. I'm so tired. On the weekends I'm doing very little besides sleeping most of the day and then all night too! I just can't seem to get enough rest. Just worn out. I think I'm starting to burn out. I've been warned this would happen. I just hoped it wouldn't happen so soon, seeing as how I'm only in my third year of being an OT, and my second year in the schools. I'm behind on everything - my blog, my e-mails, clea...
Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G) - March 25, 2013 Category: Occupational Therapists Source Type: blogs

Dried rice: An OT's best friend for weighted items and I Spy...
                Making weighted hedgehogs, weighted tube socks, I Spy stuff...all with dried rice. (Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G))
Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G) - March 17, 2013 Category: Occupational Therapists Source Type: blogs

I think I have too much paperwork
  Y'all think I got enough paperwork? :) Organizing... (Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G))
Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G) - March 17, 2013 Category: Occupational Therapists Source Type: blogs

Sorry for the quiet...
Two articles I'm glancing at...Chewing Gum Aids Concentration (I totally agree with this one - I frequently recommend letting some of my OT kiddos be allowed to chew gum in class, either for concentration or to keep them from putting other things in their mouth...some teachers are skeptical at first but become believers...pretty high success rate...) http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breakingnews/offbeat/chewing-gum-aids-concentration-29116803.html (A comparison between Section 504 and IDEA)http://www.ncld.org/disability-advocacy/learn-ld-laws/adaaa-section-504/section-504-idea-comparison-chart =====Sorry for the qu...
Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G) - March 10, 2013 Category: Occupational Therapists Source Type: blogs

My newest OT blog love ;) + missawesomeness.com about to get a facelift
We've got a new OT blog in town....Anonymous OT. I saw Tonya over at TherapyFunZone.com link her on Facebook and curiously clicked. I've gotten a little lazy about exploring my OT blogosphere and haven't seen any new OT blogs in a long time (the newest ones I can think of that I like are MamaOT and Embrace Your Chaos for pediatric blogs, and OTpotential is a great new addition for non-pediatric, serious blogging)I really enjoyed AnonymousOT....here is her link and I also linked to a few of her "test pins" that I may try out soon. http://theanonymousot.com/http://theanonymousot.com/2013/02/18/pinned-on-pinterest-t...
Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G) - March 2, 2013 Category: Occupational Therapists Source Type: blogs

Child by Sylvia Plath
Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing.I want to fill it with color and ducks,The zoo of the new The start of a poem by Sylvia Plath that I recently received in my daily "The Writer's Almanac". I loved the first few lines that I copied over...it goes on, but I don't know all the details about copyright and such so I stopped there. For those of us that work in pediatrics (or have kids), the purity of our children can be astounding. :) I love the idea of their "clear eyes". (Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G))
Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G) - February 28, 2013 Category: Occupational Therapists Source Type: blogs

LetterReflex: Review + Give-Aways of Dexteria and LetterReflex!
I was recently given the opportunity to review LetterReflex - "Overcoming Letter Reversals & Backwards Writing in Early Childhood Development & Dyslexic Children". It's considered a medical app and was developed by BinaryLabs, Inc. It's part of BinaryLab's "trilogy of essential apps for OTs" along with Dexteria and P.O.V. I've already reviewed Dexteria here and I'll review P.OV at a future date. I received these apps for free (which cost $3.99) in exchange for writing an unbiased review on my blog.I also get to host a give-away! You can win your own free downloads of Dexteria and LetterReflex! You need to...
Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G) - February 25, 2013 Category: Occupational Therapists Source Type: blogs