Cathy Swan places her greatest foot ahead on daily basis, and she or he’s seeing to it that most of the residents of Riverton do the identical. One foot pillow at a time.
Fifty years in the past, Cathy started stitching foot-shaped pillows for her household. “I discovered the sample in a craft journal. I made them for my youngsters,” of which she has three, in addition to 15 grandkids and 35 great-grandkids and one great-great-grandchild.
Ultimately, she started giving the pillows away to folks exterior of her household, together with her therapists at Teton Remedy. Through the years, she’s seen members of each the Bodily and Occupational Remedy groups. “I like all of the folks I’ve labored with,” she says. They usually have been recipients of her particular foot-shaped creations, too.
Cathy has all the time been a caregiver, whether or not caring for her late husband, George, or throughout her profession as a healthcare supplier: “I did ambulance for 18 years in Riverton, and I used to be a nurse for 11 years earlier than that,” she says. “Within the ambulance, you’re the carer.”
“Caregivers have particular wants,” says Riverton clinic-based Licensed Occupational Remedy Assistant Don Scott. “Caregivers can expertise bodily accidents related to caring for a cherished one, like again and shoulder pressure brought on by lifting or transferring a cherished one utilizing improper methods. They will additionally expertise repetitive stress accidents from duties they should repeat on daily basis.”
Other than the bodily toll, there’s additionally the psychological and emotional stress of caring for a cherished one. “Self-care and hobbies can typically present a launch for caregivers,” Scott says.
These hobbies might embrace one thing like making foot-shaped pillows.
Cathy says making the pillows is her method of fulfilling a better goal. However whereas she refuses any glory for what she does, her affect on the Riverton neighborhood is undeniably heartfelt, leaving footprints that many will try to comply with.
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