Today, the children's center at the hospice went on an outing. I'm not quite positive where we actually went, but it was in the mountains and there was lots of open space and a stream where people sat in their bathing suits and babies splashed in the water. I got to spend a lot of time with the kids, and I'm starting to understand what they're saying.
I'm going to have super selective hearing when I get home because I am becoming a pro at zoning out of a conversation when it is in Romanian.
Yesterday I got to observe a little more PT. I got to help with a boy who has spastic tetraplegia. He was super adorable. Anda (the PT who I'm working with), was explaining to me that if we don't work on stretching out his muscles, that he's going to need surgery as he grows to increase the length of the tendons. Anda had me holding his one leg straight while she stretched the other. While this might sound like a simple task, for someone who is spastic, they have their muscles super tight and all their joints closed. I felt like I was putting all my weight on this three year old's knee. We also worked with a boy who has advanced muscular dystrophy. We were trying to make him cough, because he cannot do it himself and it's important to clear his airway. I'm really enjoying all that I'm seeing here, for it's quite different than the disorders I've watched being treated at home.
Tonight we were lazy and sat at home and skyped and watched so you think you can dance. We're working out our plans to go see castles this weekend, and are deciding what other things we want to do in Brasov. Besides Dracula's castle, here are the other things we want to do:
-Rasnov Castle
-Peles Castle
-The citadel above the city
-Ride the cable car up mount tampa (though I want to hike it!) and take pictures from the top of the city, and go behind the Brasov hollywood-esque sign
And here are some pictures from my picnic!
My friend Yonella! Playing with bubbles =)
This is the pretty place we went.
This is the kite I worked for like 2 hours to get to fly so that a girl in a wheelchair could fly a kite. This is a difficult task when there is little wind...
te iubesc,
Alyssa
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