GC 1-8-15
At GC this week I was in speech therapy. I got to watch the speech therapist work with the patients who have lost some of their motor skills. She teaches them how to regain the strength has have lost in their lips, tongue, and neck muscles. I asked her why these patients have to receive thicken liquids to drink instead of normal and she informed me that because their neck muscles are weak the liquid could slip into their lungs causing pneumonia. She taught me a lot about the importance of helping them regain back their strength.