CF diet - I'm not sure how much longer I can do this

ostrich · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 3718 Location: Nebraska

Let Sean choose! It can be his reward for putting up with all that crap. Very Happy

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jsb · Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 13 Location: Florida

Ice cream sundae over here, too, please!
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celiacmaine-iac · Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 412 Location: Maine

Colleen- How's Sean doing?

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cruelshoes · Joined: 23 Sep 2005 Posts: 2139 Location: Washington State

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mrsppmrxky · Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 1393 Location: GF Kitchen

Colleen, when my MIL was in PT last year, they had a big rubbermaid bin filled with rice. (I am sure you have some of that around the house. LOL) they then dropped small objects in the rice and she had to fish them out 1 at a time until she had recovered a certain number and then she had to do the other hand with the objects mixed back in the rice.
(a jack, penny, marble, paper clip, a plastic ring, plastic bugs........anything small.)

If you son does this, he gets little resistance from the rice and the finger action to pick up builds strength in the finger muscles. (It is no fair to scoop or corner the object. You have to pinch together your fingers to pick it up.)

I do not know how old your son it, but you might be able to pick up a stress ball (you might even be able to buy one from a PT place) While watching tv or listening to music, he can play with the ball squeezing it to strengthen his hands and wrists. (the balls from the PT come in different numbered strengths. You could get the least resistant and be working your way up until you could get in to see the OT.

I would not think that any of this activity would do anything to harm your son at all.

You might even try playing with chopsticks to eat snacks such as GF Cheerios or berries if he can eat them.

You might could get ahold of a Mavis Beacon teaches typing. It plays with certain letters practicing so that he has to move two or three of the same fingers time after time.

Maybe playing jacks?

Painting sun cathers.............or those marker velvet pictures from the craft store.

Scissors to cut things out.

Just suggestions on playful things to help until you can get him into OT.
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