Galen

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Gender Female
Occupation Occupational therapist
Location MO, United States
Introduction I worked as a pediatric occupational therapist for 30 years, in both the public schools and in the home health setting. I was on long-term disability for 2 years, but it ran out. I'm hoping to open a new type of practice within the year. I'm a single adoptive mom of 10 children (all now adults) with special needs, including cerebral palsy, spina bifida, dwarfism, developmental delay, traumatic brain injury, and schizophrenia. I am also a dog lover, heart attack survivor, proud Boomer, occasional poet, progressive Democrat, and a pretty nice person.
Interests Dogs, gardening, writing, exploring state parks, Russian language, Obama, schizophrenia, adoption, liberal politics, traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, occupational therapy, retiring overseas, mountains, rivers, coonhounds, cohousing
Favorite Movies Father of the Bride, The Thief (Вор), East-West, Awakenings, Les Miserables, The Killing Fields, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Regarding Henry, Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, The Sum of Us, A Beautiful Mind, Shawshank Redemption
Favorite Music Don Henley, Travelling Wilburys, Pete Seeger, Cyndi Lauper, Willie Nelson, zydeco, Wayne Toups, Lyube, Belyi Orel, Tatiana Bulanova, Golubyi Berety, Oldies
Favorite Books To Kill a Mockingbird, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Adam Bede, Far From the Madding Crowd, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop, The Chosen, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Facilitating Developmental Attachment, Dreams from my Father, North Towards Home, Cancer Ward