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Kathy
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Kathy
Healthcare Professional
“Some people told us my dad would never recover,” said Hilda
Rangel. “But from the first meeting, Kathy gave my dad hope and healing.
She has helped hundreds of people recover from the devastation of stroke
and other life changing conditions.”
As an occupational
therapist, Kathy has helped her patients to recover and not just function,
but also continue to wonder about life yet to be discovered. People see
results right away when working with Kathy. Stroke becomes not just an
affliction, but a means to discover the world in a new, if sometimes
bewildering, way. People with stroke become invisible if their speech is
silenced. So the clinicians must find other ways to engage.
Hilda’s father has sung, gestured, danced, and scored
soccer goals in treatment with Kathy. She has discovered and brought out
his tremendous physical strength and spiritual stamina. Hilda’s family's
engagement with stroke is ongoing, but she says her father is more
present to us, and more himself because he has known and worked with
Kathy.
“She is the best of all the clinicians and medical professionals
we have worked with,” Hilda said. “Medicine was vital and saved my
father's life, and we are humbly grateful for his physician's life saving
care, but therapy has made it worth living. I am so proud of him, and so
grateful to Kathy for her healing hands and generous spirit.”
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