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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's tragic.  I'm a SAHM and was just browsing around the different forums.  Can the mom do anything like paint, play with playdough, write, or draw? It almost seems like her doing the same activities with the kids would help give her something to do and share with what the children are doing.  Is she ever out of the wheelchair? It seems like if she could be on the same level as the kids playing on the floor it might help as just something else to try for variety, if she's able to, since she can't hold her kids.  4 year old boys usually don't listen to their mothers anyway, if that is any consolation.  It sounds like a very hard job, and it sounds like you're doing the best you can.[/quote]

She likes to paint, but it's hard for her to hold the brush.  Right now her OT has her finger paint, and that's something her and her son both enjoy.  She will get frustrated when he does really well and she can't keep up.  Sometimes it's like watching her go in and out of the mindset of a very sick mother and a child.  She doesn't have the muscle control to be able to write or draw yet, she literally has to relearn her pincer grasp.

She has to be lifted out of the wheelchair, she can help but doesn't have great balance.  She is often on the floor but has to have some support.  She get's dizzy very easily.[/quote]

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