Our team
As the last week of my internship has come to an end, I look back at the great people I have met and all the things I have learned, and quite frankly I don’t want to come home.
The thing I’m going to take away most from this experience is to always look at the bright side of things and never give up. A few of the people who came into the Wellness Lab were told that they will never be able to stand, walk, or talk again, but that didn’t stop them from trying. These men and women came in there to get better and slowly but surely they are!
One gentleman had a stroke in the left side of his brain which caused him to become paralyzed in parts of the right side of his body. His doctor told him that he would never be able to walk or talk again. Mr. Clearance walks in every morning and asks everyone how they are this morning and tells us that he is “super!”
One of our patients
Another gentleman that I have gotten the pleasure to know is paralyzed from the waist down. He really likes to shoot his bow and hunt so his buddy at the archery range made him a stand that he can get his wheel chair into in order for him to still be able to do something he loves. Mr. Monty rode a bronc in the Norwood rodeo and he and his buddies did a lot of hunting up by Meeker. He always tells me, “I can’t walk around yet but I will, and as soon as I can I will be out hunting.”
In the Better Breathers Club, I got to know this one lady very well. Mrs. Sandy has had two heart attacks but if you were to look at her you would never guess. She comes in almost every day and walks at least three miles. Since she’s been coming in she can tell she’s getting healthier and just feeling better in general. While I was walking with her, I learned a lot about her family and her job. Her and her husband own a restaurant called Natty Flat Smokehouse, coincidently my host family had taken us to this restaurant.
The rodeo
It’s crazy how small of a world it is. I have met people who have been through my home town. I have met people who know my host family very well. I have met people that I will never be able to forgot. I have met people who have given me a different outlook on life. I am so thankful for this opportunity and sad that it went by so fast.
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