Foundations of Occupation Centered Practice

I had the rewarding opportunity to go watch a basketball practice of the Division 1 team named Rolling Grizzlies of Memphis!  I had never heard of this team nor really knew wheelchair basketball was performed at a national level so this was all a new experience.  Before the practice began, the coach came over to us and briefly explained the concept and how they play by the same rules as NCAA College Basketball with minor differences such as two pushes on the chair counts as a travel.  He tells us about some of the players, one of which was on his way to the NBA before his injury.  Another player had some sort of disease where he was once paralyzed and played wheelchair basketball in college but is now able to walk.  Another teammate was also able to walk but we weren't given his story.  I found it interesting they were still allowed to play on the team.  As they all entered the gym, I noticed how they were transferring out of their typical chair to the...

Trans Fatty Lives is a documentary about a man named Patrick O'Brien who was diagnosed with ALS at the age of thirty.  Prior to his diagnosis, his persona was TransFatty and he enjoyed making music, films, and artistic photography and continued his passion of these things throughout his ALS journey.  At the time of his diagnosis, he was making a film about an old restaurant he loved named Howard Johnson's.  He asked his film crew to instead turn the cameras onto him once he was diagnosed with ALS.  Patrick seems to be dedicating several messages and his story to a little boy, his son, who we aren't sure about until later.  This documentary took me on a very emotional ride where I often was laughing while I had tears running down my face.  Patrick had a great way of turning the unthinkable into some odd humor that you couldn't resist laughing at.  For example, in one very powerful scene where Patrick was pleading to not have a tracheotomy as he was gasp...

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