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Monday, January 7, 2013
Learning how to breath properly during speech
I began my Monday morning at 6:00 a.m. by staying in my bedroom to do my weight exercises. Once I had done so I then focussed on my stretching.Once I had finished my morning workout, I then made my way out into the kitchen to eat a bowl of cream of wheat with some bananna and orange for breakfast. Along with a toasted muffin and my hot cocoa, I was set to go. At 7:30 I had returned to my bedroom to get ready for the day ahead. Once I was ready I had grabbed my lunch and my nap sack and was on my way out the door. United was there to trandport me right on time. I had arrived at WestSide at 10:00 a.m. This gave me enough time to bring my lunch to the kitchen and my coat in my locker. I then went back to the lobby to meet with my casemanager Piper for 10:15. Today Piper had gone over advanced directives with me and my rights as a client. Once I had signed the form and was given the manual, I was set to go. At 10:30 I then had my support session with Deb. Today Deb had helped on how to retreave my email off of my I pad. In doing so she had given me steps to practice with during the week. At 11:00 I then had made my way downstairs to the gym for my P.T. session with Dan. Dan first took my blood pressure reading 100 over 74. Dan then had me walking on the tredmill at 3.1 mph for eight minutes before stopping to check my blood pressure once again. 100 over 74. I then went another eight minutes and it was 108 over 80. Then at the end of my work out it was 110 over 80. I had walked for twenty minutes, burned 99.7 calories, had walked 1.031 miles at 3.1 mph. At 11:30 Dan then had me in the parallel bars standing on and erix cuission. While standing I had to reach for a clothing pin and stick it on a pole on the other side. Dan would move his hand other over the place as I had reached for the clip so as to work on my scanning. At 12:00 I then went to the kitchen to eat my lunch. Once I had done so, I then grabbed my things from my locker and went up to the lobby to wait for my speech session with Carina at 12:30. During this time Carina had me back down in the gym walking on the tredmill practicing my breathing. Inhaling through my nose and exhaling through my teeth so as to make a sssssssssssssss sound. The purpose is to train my brain and to get use to breathing the right way again. which has been pretty difficult to do since I had become more active since starting my theropy at WestSide. At 1:00 Lou from United took me home. I had arrived home at 2:10 thus going straight to bed. I was exhausted. I had slept until 4:30. before my mother had woken me up. I probably would have slept righ through the night. I then went into the kitchen to eat my dinner before taking my shower and getting comfortable for the night. I then had a snack before calling some friends. I then watched some television before sitting down to blog.
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