>> I like being able to see the progress in a patient.
And knowing that what I'm doing on a daily basis with that patient is going to make an impact
in their life and their level of functioning and their quality of life.
If it's a stroke, a patient is typically not going to be 100 percent.
But we teach them strategies to overcome and compensate for what their deficits are.
And so in a stroke we can see, you know, progress within a week.
And then with a cognitive patient it may take two weeks, it could be two days.
It just depends on the patient, how willing they are, how motivated and,
you know, how in depth their deficits are.
And the most challenging part is getting a patient doing an x-ray of their swallow
and telling them that they can't have anything by mouth.
They need a feeding tube.
That's hard.
A lot of times, well most of the time I'm able to leave work at work.
But in the beginning when I first started out, when I would brain injured patients
and brain injured teenagers and it hits close to home.
And then you see patients whose families want to hang on to them but,
you know, the patient is, is ready to go.
And that's, that's difficult to see too.
And in the families and the patients want good outcomes and
but your job it to be honest with them.
And so that's difficult not to give them any false hope.