"liz"

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My first field work was at a local hospital in acute care. I had the pleasure to meet “Liz” she was a young woman who had two below the knee amputations due to an autoimmune disease. “Liz” was married, with a young child and use to be a ballerina but since her illness she hasn’t been able to dance.
Prior to her surgery, she met with the OT team and the prosthetist to discuss what her goals were and how they would go about reaching them. Liz’s first treatment session was the day after her surgery; we were making knee splints for her residual limbs. While we making the splints Liz talked about how hard things have been at home; her husband left because he could not cope with his wife’s condition. It seemed as if she had reconciled the fact that he had left, as if he was put in a box in the back of her mind to be dealt with at a later date. Unfortunately, I only saw her at the one treatment session. She was doing so well that she went to rehab the very next week. During the last year I have thought about her often, hoping that she remained strong and some day she would be dancing on her new legs.

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