Posts Tagged ‘Prosthetic’
Reunited with Helper Arm
After a long delay, Jordan was reunited with her helper arm yesterday afternoon. It’s the same arm, but with extra sparkle power! Check it out! See that extra strip of pink sparkle? That covers up the spot where Jordan snagged onto playground equipment at school and tore up the arm. The sparkle power will protect…
Read More +#onehandedproblems
The fun thing about being different is having fun with it! I was on Twitter yesterday when I discovered Born Just Right friend, Caitlin, mentioning this: I tweeted how it was a perfect reason to use #onehandedproblems on Twitter. Why not have fun about limb differences? We started a list on Twitter. But we should keep…
Read More +Broken is actually good
It’s hard to celebrate a broken helper arm… but having it break is a sign that Jordan is using her arm a lot more at school. Yesterday she was playing on the playground when she fell down and broke her helper. I got a call from the office asking if I knew how to fix…
Read More +VIDEO: Fun with Jordan's helper arm
This morning at breakfast, Jordan discovered another fun thing she can do with her helper arm:
Read More +That Overwhelming Feeling
You know the feeling… when you start to realize all the things you need to get done and all the things your kids need… and it starts piling up and all you want to do is crawl into bed and take a nap because that just seems much easier? I had one of those moments…
Read More +VIDEO: Meet Jordan's swim paddle
Introducing Miss Jordan’s new swim paddle! Before we left Chicago we had a chance to hop into a hotel pool and test it out. The paddle is attached to her arm with two rubber bands and velcro. It’s very different for Jordan since it holds on tightly and she’s not a fan of how it…
Read More +Building Jordan's new arm – Day 1
I feel like we’re total pros now that we’re working on Jordan’s sixth ever prosthetic arm process. The very first one when she was four months old was done the old-school way. It’s when you go in to have the arm measured and casted, then you come back every week to check a fitting, test…
Read More +VIDEO: Special gifts
We have had a very exciting weekend in our household. Jordan and I are gearing up to head back to Chicago to build her next helper arm. She had the challenge this weekend to pick out the next design for her arm. The cool thing about the type of prosthetics she uses is we can…
Read More +Tying shoes a little differently
Over the summer Jordan had figured out how to tie her shoes under the guidance of some really wonderful friends at Camp No Limits. The challenge for me was taking those skills and extending it into the real world. Jordan didn’t really own shoes with laces when we got home from camp and I didn’t…
Read More +Amazing
Jordan, her friend Ashlyn and Jordan’s brother, Cameron, had an experience of a lifetime. They got to meet Winter the Dolphin in person and spend some special time together. I promise to write more… but I have to pack, get a little sleep and return home for all kinds of work that’s needed! We had…
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