Living the Hard Times Out Loud
[vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%231e73be” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”By Naomi D. Williams and Noah S. Williams ” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23000000″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1683042070130{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Download the article (pdf)[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] 2014. A challenging, life-changing year filled with sickness, hospitals, trauma. Summer was a tailspin. Uncanny, unsavory. Something was definitely wrong. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] 2009. Five months in NICU. How […]
“The Hat”
[vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%231e73be” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”By Mary Swiggum, PT, PhD ” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23000000″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1681405484517{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Download the article (pdf)[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Introduction” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]My husband was so strong, athletic, caring. I fell in love with him when I witnessed how gently and lovingly he cared for clients at a residential facility. We ran races together, finished a […]
Ascents
[vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%231e73be” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”By Woods Nash, PhD, MPH” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23000000″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1681404596493{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Download the article (pdf)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Rock-hobbled pace: praise proud, profane. Slow strolls around each missing mountain.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_id=”author-about”][vc_column][vc_column_text] This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”About the Author(s)” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Owed to the Fingers
[vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%231e73be” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”By Steven C. Cramer, MD” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23000000″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1681404069753{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Download the article (pdf)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Fingers make our lives go around They snap and tap out daily sounds They wave on a fetal ultrasound And lower a coffin to the ground They peel and poke and prod and pluck And point with glee […]
Little Gestures
[vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%231e73be” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”By Seth Peterson, PT, DPT” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23000000″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1681403072414{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Download the article (pdf)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]You turned the broken door handle, went inside, and here we are. The tools I have to help are few. But you don’t know how we can be bulls in china shops, thrushes thundering overhead, sometimes snapping crocodiles. […]
The Fight
[vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%231e73be” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”By Diana Early, PT, PhD” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23000000″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1678998374625{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Download the article (pdf)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]We didn’t understand when the doctor said “I’m sorry,” the day you were born. It didn’t matter to us. You were our beautiful baby. One extra chromosome made no difference. We vowed to give you the best whatever […]
Gutted
[vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%231e73be” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”By Tiffany Bystra, MS, OTR/L” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23000000″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1675782004033{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Download the article (pdf)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Going through old files I received a firm slap in the face Sinking back into the reality I lived not long ago enduring chemotherapy. They transported me to the pain anticipation anxiety relief of finishing treatment at […]
Three Poems: Lost in Translation
[vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%231e73be” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”By Marta Tymchenko, BS” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23000000″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1664916032027{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Download the article (pdf)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The Patient’s Perspective I don’t want to be a burden an inconvenience an individual known to take the doctor’s time and throw it in the wind. I don’t want to be a burden an inconvenience a mother who relies […]
Profiles in Professionalism With Bruce Greenfield
[vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%231e73be” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”By Bruce Greenfield, PT, PhD, FNAP and Melissa McCune, PT, DPT, MPH” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23000000″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1665631980107{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Download the article (pdf)[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Introduction” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The Profiles in Professionalism series featured in the Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation seeks to explore the elusive yet crucial concept of professionalism and its role in the […]
Afflicted With Wishes for Change
[vc_row content_placement=”top”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%231e73be” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”By Dustin Willis PT, DPT ” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23000000″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1646949716032{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Download the article (pdf)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]I’m so frustrated… too many doctor’s visits seem to end like this– Being sent away, little said about what might be going on & what to do about it. Don’t get me wrong, I know as […]
