Lioness ([info]elisem) wrote,
@ 2009-07-08 16:21:00
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amidst the frustration, a very good thing
You guys know what CART is?

Well, they've got it at the hospital I go to. (I could have had it for that damned mandatory joint-replacement class, if they had told me they had it when I called to check on accessibility and transcripts, damn it!) Anyhow, I'm going to have it! I get it all day surgery day, and on discharge day, and (it looks like) for rounds and PT and OT!!!!!


This could be a good thing, I am thinking*. I'll let you know how it works out.


* This is wild Scandosotan understatement, as shown by the fact that I used up a week's worth of exclamation points in the previous sentence.

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[info]haddayr
2009-07-08 09:33 pm UTC (link)
Woah. This is AWESOME.

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[info]elisem
2009-07-08 09:43 pm UTC (link)
Yes. Once I find out if it works well, I am going to make sure MORE PEOPLE KNOW that they have CART AT FAIRVIEW RIVERSIDE -- but that almost none of the individual clinics know they have it, so you have you know to request it. (Incoherent and very fierce grumble deleted, but you know what I mean. But still, they have it. And I'm going to get it.)

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[info]pgdudda
2009-07-08 09:35 pm UTC (link)
!!!Squeees for the Elise!!!

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[info]elisem
2009-07-08 09:44 pm UTC (link)
I know what your icon is!

*grins bigtime in recognition*

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[info]elisem
2009-07-08 10:42 pm UTC (link)
And look! I have a new icon!

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[info]mrissa
2009-07-08 09:54 pm UTC (link)
Isn't that a thing!

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[info]elisem
2009-07-08 09:58 pm UTC (link)
Let me tell you, it is just something!

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[info]mrissa
2009-07-08 09:59 pm UTC (link)
I guess!

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[info]elisem
2009-07-08 10:42 pm UTC (link)
That is quite the hat there.

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[info]mrissa
2009-07-08 11:42 pm UTC (link)
It is [info]matociquala's, but it is a very friendly hat.

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[info]coffeeem
2009-07-08 10:01 pm UTC (link)
I have forgotten much of my Scandosotan vocabulary, so: WOOHOO!!!!!

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[info]elisem
2009-07-09 12:24 am UTC (link)
*grin*

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[info]jenett
2009-07-08 11:50 pm UTC (link)
Wicked awesome!

(as, erm, I am back in the linguistic dialect of my youth at the moment, and it comes more naturally)


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[info]elisem
2009-07-09 12:25 am UTC (link)
Your unfamiliar argot, it charms me.

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[info]micheinnz
2009-07-09 05:26 am UTC (link)
My people would've said "Choooooice!"

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[info]emilytheslayer
2009-07-08 11:58 pm UTC (link)
Oh cool! I can't wait to hear your report on it!

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[info]elisem
2009-07-09 12:25 am UTC (link)
I will do my best to give a full report. And if this thing works, yay in all directions, and am gonna use it in future.

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[info]janetmiles
2009-07-09 01:14 am UTC (link)
I have never heard of CART before, I think it's brilliant, I'm thrilled that you will have the use of it, and good grief that hospital needs better internal communication!

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[info]elisem
2009-07-09 01:17 am UTC (link)
They do indeed. It would be a very good thing.

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[info]hobbitbabe
2009-07-09 01:24 am UTC (link)
What a wonderful geeky gadgety goodness! I look forward to hearing how it all works out.

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[info]madrobins
2009-07-09 01:26 am UTC (link)
Damn! That's totally worth a week's worth of exclamation points! Yay!!! (adding my own, just because I can)

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[info]cjsherwood
2009-07-09 02:58 am UTC (link)
doing the happy Hearing Assistance Dance of Joy in your honor!!!

This will be rather so helpful!!!!

(Gee! Look! More exclamation points!!! Help yourself!!)

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[info]ckd
2009-07-09 04:15 am UTC (link)
A guy could approve of that sort of thing.

Nope, I just can't stay in that mode for long. This sounds great, and I hope it works out even better than you think it will!

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[info]elisem
2009-07-09 04:19 am UTC (link)
*grins at you*

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[info]bridgetj2
2009-07-09 04:16 am UTC (link)
Now, that is one for the win column.

A little story, because I need to tell someone, and I think you'll all understand this better than some:

I am teaching right now (a 3rd year undergraduate course at a large university), and have a Deaf student who attends class with ASL interpreters. This student is so on the ball and willing and able to advocate for herself - and TELL ME WHAT SHE NEEDS, without assuming that I either 1) know, or 2) SHOULD know. It is fantastic, and I'm learning so much. After the first week, she sent me an email to recap how the first couple lectures went for her, and told me about a host of other disability issues she has, in conjunction with the Deaf, that are affecting her. She gave a couple suggestions that would help her - all of them completely, totally reasonable, no issues from my end - and apologizing for not telling me about them before.

As she explained, in previous experience (for her and her counsellor at accessibility services), they've found that when it comes to her course instructors, "I'm scary enough being Deaf." This made me laugh. I told her I don't consider her scary in the least, and even with her other health issues, I'm perfectly happy to do what I can - and she gives me reasonable, concrete requests that will help her and affect no one else's learning experience, so what's to be afraid of?

And then she told me this: Apparently, other departments have actually refused requests as simple as - believe it or not - KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON DURING LECTURES (if they're using a projector) so she can, you know, SEE THE INTERPRETERS. Because "it makes the professor feel like a rotisserie chicken with the lights on." In that situation, her ASL translator practically has to sit on top of her. And then she said, and I quote, "This is what I am used to...I forget the people in the linguistics department actually have souls."

Yeah. Damn. I mean... Wow.

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[info]elisem
2009-07-09 04:22 am UTC (link)
Yes, Exactly. And with the Damn.

which pretty much translates to:

Thank you for telling me this one, and I do indeed get it.

Also, go her! (And go you for being a good teacher.)

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[info]elisem
2009-07-09 04:24 am UTC (link)
(And suddenly remembering: I had a teacher who was brilliant, and I really wanted to learn what she had to teach, but she paced back and forth the whole time, so half of everything she said was facing away from me, on average. And she couldn't seem to NOT do that, even when I talked to her about my desire not to miss anything she said.)

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[info]arielstarshadow
2009-07-09 11:38 am UTC (link)
Some things become so ingrained people don't even realize they're doing it - and even if they are reminded, they'll do better for a while (maybe) until the reminder fades and they slip back into the old habit.

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[info]sethb
2009-07-09 09:26 pm UTC (link)
I understand that. When I taught, I learned a lot about teaching from a blind student. Making things clear to him made me a better teacher for everyone.

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[info]micheinnz
2009-07-09 05:27 am UTC (link)
*happydance* for you! Yay!

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[info]fledgist
2009-07-09 11:09 am UTC (link)
This sounds like a good thing.

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[info]huladavid
2009-07-09 01:48 pm UTC (link)
Yay for that!

Hey, do you know anything about CSD of Minnesota? I ran into a woman I remembered from my days at MRS/DEAF, and I got to talking about getting interpreters for the March On Washington planning meetings.

They also do video interpreting, which I think is very cool! Lemme know if you want info. Also their url is www.c-s-d.org .

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[info]inspirethoughts
2009-07-09 02:20 pm UTC (link)
Very good news. *Hugs and squeezes*

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[info]firecat
2009-07-10 04:21 am UTC (link)
I didn't know about that! Thanks for passing the word.

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