MB the OT

For this neuronote I watched a TED talk called An Aphasiologist Has a Stroke by Dr. Robert Goldfarb and as an occupational therapy student I would definitely recommend this video. He told the story about an experience he encountered while driving one day. He expressed the symptoms that he was feeling including a stabbing pain in his eye, his body felt weird, and his speech was affected so he pulled over. It was later determined that he had a stroke and over the next few days he had several more. He had multiple TIAs and then he had a brainstem stroke. He explained that he had right facial droop, dysarthria which we learned in class as problems with motor production of speech, and paralysis on one side of his body. We had learned about these symptoms in class but seeing him and being able to piece together the information learned with an actual persons experience really helped me to understand the symptoms better. He was later transferred to a rehab facility and he explained his experi...

I watched the movie The Fundamentals of Caring staring Craig Roberts, Paul Rudd, and Selena Gomez and I really enjoyed the movie and would recommend others too watch it. This movie is about the relationship between a caregiver named Ben and a young boy named Trevor with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Ben is on a mission to allow Trevor to enjoy the things that he can in life, so they embark on a journey to see the world largest pit. Trevor was known for playing tricks on the caregivers in his life by pretending something bad was happening to him with his medical needs. Throughout the movie Ben and Trevor were playing jokes on each other and each joke always seemed like a life or death issue for Trevor. This was not always funny to the caregivers, but Trevor seemed to enjoy it. I learned a lot about the lifestyle of someone with muscular dystrophy while watching this movie. I learned how traveling can be such a challenge to some with this diagnosis. Trevor had to sleep with a CPAP machine...