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Don & Rosella Kvernen

Don & Rosella Kvernen. Thank you. Thank you. for the sacrifices you have made to help people like us. Today we want to:. Tell you a patient and care partner’s view of rehab Tell you what you do that helps us Encourage you – that you make a huge impact in people’s lives

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Don & Rosella Kvernen

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  1. Don & Rosella Kvernen

  2. Thank you

  3. Thank you for the sacrifices you have made to help people like us

  4. Today we want to: Tell you a patient and care partner’s view of rehab Tell you what you do that helps us Encourage you – that you make a huge impact in people’s lives Questions or Comments

  5. Our Family Don, Rosella, Jon, and Josh

  6. Monday morningMarch 18, 1991 Don had a TIA and another

  7. Tuesday morning March 19, 1991our lives changed forever

  8. Left Internal Carotid Dissection

  9. Don’sMRI November 2009

  10. Thank you For your skilled care that helps your patients survive For your kindness

  11. Thank you For assuring families but not forcing them to go home For letting them decide

  12. Don &Rosellabefore Don’s Stroke

  13. In one day, we left a good lifeand headed intoa huge unknown

  14. Rehab!

  15. Thank you For not forcing your patients and their families too quickly into the realization of what lies ahead

  16. HOPE

  17. Thank you For creating a pleasant environment for your patients to heal and to begin to hope

  18. Thank you For crying with your patients For showing compassion alongside your professionalism

  19. Thank you For balancing humor with your compassion and knowledgeable care

  20. Thank you For sensing your patients’ and their families’ discouragement For encouraging them about their progress and their future

  21. Thank you For treating your patients like regular people, not just a certain patient diagnosis

  22. Thank you For creating opportunities for your patients and their families to interact with and encourage each other

  23. Tragedies happento families

  24. Thank you For your medical expertise For your wisdom to help families pull together toward their loved ones’ recovery

  25. Thank you For letting spouses come to therapy sessions

  26. Thank you For letting children come to their parent’s therapy sessions

  27. Thank you For showing – not just telling – your aphasic patients what to do in therapy

  28. Thank you For allowing your hospitals to support chaplaincy programs

  29. Thank you For easing your patients into their new lives by arranging home visits

  30. The Orton-Gillingham teaching method uses learning elements that are: Visual Auditory Phonetic Kinesthetic

  31. VisualDrillsAuditory Drills Say name & sound (e.g. F & fff) Feel mouth Trace in rice Repeat name & sound See the letter Hear the letter

  32. Don with Kay Hawley, his tutor from the Dyslexia Institute (aka)Reading Center of Rochester

  33. TouchMath

  34. Thank you Speech Therapists Kay Hawley, Don’s tutor The Orton-Gillingham method The TouchMath method Don’s practice friends

  35. Thank you For “taking it” when patients say horrible things to you

  36. Thank you For teaching your patients to take responsibility for their own well-being

  37. Thank you For training your patients how to accomplish their ADLs For helping them become independent

  38. Thank you For tending so diligently to all of your patients’ complex health issues

  39. Thank you For persisting until you find anticonvulsants and other meds that work well for your patients For giving hope For being kind

  40. Patients slough off your suggestions because of Denial Pride Embarrassment Too much – too soon

  41. Thank you For continuing to gently present resources to your patients and their families Keep on offering help Perhaps on the “6th time” they will respond

  42. Don, enjoying his John Deere

  43. Don and a friend

  44. Thank you For helping patients navigate the myriad of issues involved in integration back into life

  45. We Needed Counseling

  46. Overcome by Recovery

  47. Thank you For your wise counsel For directing your patients and their families toward a more healthy way of living

  48. Thank you For inviting patients to work with your PT students For letting survivors give back

  49. Don chose not to get bitter He did not have to deny our pain He just did not want to let our losses fester and control our lives

  50. StrokeSurvivor-StoryofHope.com

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