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There’s nothing like a good beat down…
on a Friday morning. As if my week wasn’t hard enough but this morning at 8 am I had a meeting that topped it all off. I walked in thinking it was going to be rather easy-going but it quickly turned sour. The first inkling of a beat-down was when the mom said something like, “When he starts his new school we’re going to get a real OT…a really good one.” Awesome. This can’t be good.
When it was my turn to speak, before I could get into my report, the mom said, “You don’t need to go through this I already disagree with your recommendation.” She had flipped to the end of the report to see that I was recommending that we discontinue services. Double-awesome.
THEN!! She says to me, “I know you don’t like me and I’ve never liked you so I guess it’s mutual. But it’s not fair to take it out on a child.” WHAM! Beat down! I was pretty speechless. When I finally caught my breath, I calmly replied with, “Wow. (pause) I’ve never had any negative feelings about you.” She then quickly replied with, “Well, then me too!” Huh?
Anyway, I didn’t finish my report and said to the administrator, “I don’t have anything else to say. It’s all in my report.” After the meeting, the teacher, who was sitting next to the mom, said to me, “I had to do everything in my power not to reach over and sock her in the face. That wouldn’t have been very professional of me.” Aw, *sniff* how sweet. So that was how I spent my Friday morning. I hope all of you had a better Friday.
Avert your eyes!
This has been such a busy week at work. We call it “Kindergarten Transition Week”. In other words, no kids come to school because all the grown-ups are too busy gathering around a tiny knee-high table talking about where they should go next year for Kindergarten and how much therapy they will need. Well, as the only therapist at the preschool, my poor intern and I have been driving from school to school, sitting through meeting after meeting, and looking at documents with tiny print until we’re cross-eyed. I can barely remember whose meeting I went to just this morning! Anyway, it’s Wednesday and I have two more days to endure. I didn’t think sitting around all day could be more tiring than chasing kids around but I think it might be.
Things I’ve thought about during my meetings:
- “I wonder if I could hang our summer jellyfish projects from the clinic ceilings the same way this teacher has: paperclip+string+clothespin…clever.”
- “99 Ranch, tofu, kimchee, soybean juice, mochi ice cream…mmm…mochi ice cream”
- “Did I close the garage door this morning?”
- “This dad looks like the dad in ‘American Pie’.”
- “I wish I could trade places with Koa right now. I could use a long nap.”
- “That lady seated across from me is too large to be wearing a denim skirt that tight and short. I wish the table was higher…eew.”
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