This morning I volunteered at a Trauma Prevention Program at Children's Hospital. They have them approximately every other month and teen drivers with repeat speeding ticket offenses are sentenced to attend. There were about 15-16 kids there today. First they have them take a pre-test assessing their knowledge about car accidents and MVA related injuries. Then they have them go through the ED and talk about what happens when a child comes in from a wreck. Then they brought them up to the PT/OT department (that's where we come in!) and we talk to them a little bit about therapy and assign them each an "impairment." Some of them have to wear knee immobilizers and arm slings, some have to be on crutches, some on walkers, some in wheelchairs but only able to use one side of their body, some in neck braces, helmets, etc, etc. They go through the rest of their morning with their "impairment" which consists of a visit to the PICU and listening to former trauma victims (or parents of trauma victims) talk to them.
So, they are teenagers, so a lot of them were trying to "cheat" with their impairment or were talking about "how all they did was run a stop sign, why did they have to be here?" etc. It was really a good experience and if we got through to at least one of the kids, I'll be happy.
This evening we went out to a local Mexican restaurant, La Paz for some drinks with co-workers. The purpose of the outing was to celebrate the End of Wednesday (Wednesday was a rough day!) It was pretty fun. Tomorrow we're hosting Sunday night dinner at our house. I'll post about it soon!
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