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>> The client had had a status post hip replacement,
and in the process suffered a stroke.
And so I followed this patient for 4 weeks,
everyday having therapy with him twice a day.
I was going home one afternoon, we had been working everyday
and I could hear someone faintly saying my name,
but it was a wrong name but I could hear it and it kept saying
"Bernadine, Bernadine," and I turned around
and it was my patient.
After 3 weeks of working with him because he had gone
from mute, unintelligible speech to now having words
and ultimately sentences.
By the 4th week, the speech
and the language skills were starting to return
and what he did was he said,
"You don't know how you've changed my life."
So on the last day of treatment before he left the hospital,
his wife bought three boxes of tissue.
One for her, one for me, and one for him, and we boohooed
because we had connected in such a way that,
I mean, it was unbelievable.
It is priceless.
You cannot even say that you do it
for the money 'cause it has nothing to do with the money.
It has to do with the outcome, and the outcome was
that this patient actually returned back home.