Never wanting to be pushy I asked Dawn, a cash-paying PT client of mine, "Would you like me to continue coming to see you?" Her face lit up as I asked her that important question. It was OBVIOUS (confirmed by her private caregiver and her power of attorney niece) that she had been really enjoying our therapy sessions even though she speaks with difficulty. Dawn also grins when we do our "balance, endurance, and gait training" via "dancing" around the halls of her high-rise assisted living facility in downtown Mesa, AZ. Dawn also does quadriceps strength training with ankle weights I bring with me.
How I Got Paid to Learn to Dance
A few weeks ago I treated a non-cash "standard" home health client named Cy, who lived on the 11th floor of the same complex. Cy had once been a dance instructor for Fred Astaire (TM) and had said he wished he could "shut off the switch" on life. Realizing that learning dancing could boost my career and give him purpose I looked in his eye and told him I really wanted him to teach me some steps. This really seemed to work. Pretty soon I truly told him that his influence had spread throughout Mesa as more than one of my frail elderly female clients had really enjoyed doing some of his dance steps with me.
Cy recently has had a turn for the worse and has had to move into a small group home with his wife. He's currently on 5 liters of O2/minute via nasal cannula, has been put on hospice, and wears a hospital gown. Currently I am finishing a series of therapy to improve his wife's stability so I saw to them both today. Cy's wife Jo also loves dancing exercise too. "Mind if I dance with your wife?", I questioned Cy as he gazed back at me from his lift chair. "Sure. Go ahead" he allowed. I then FIRMLY grasped both of Jo's forearms, and began a waltz. "You've got the steps right but the counting wrong", Cy piped. He was right! Cy pressed on, "Now open that right hand door down below that desktop and hand me one of those boxes". I reached down and handed him a few of the boxes that were about the size of a pen set. I grasped Jo firmly again and counting aloud resumed the steps. Moments later over the roar of the O2 concentrator streaming from just below the hiss of the nasal cannula a 3-beat melody from Cy on his harmonica put a smile on MY face.
Now what about that $799? That is what Dawn's loved ones invested in her health with me today. A few clicks of the credit card terminal's keys and she had paid me for 8 more sessions to be performed in her assisted living facility.
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