I was sent to facilitate at an agency that works with long term mentally ill out patients. I was there to help them with computer lessons. What a blast I had! I was very busy with back to back clients all of whom I liked very much!
- First up was J....he needed step by step instructions on how to access the Internet. J is a severe Schizophrenic and has a hard time concentrating on one topic and therefore has learned to talk and read very quickly. We surfed, You Tube Videos, Make Your Own Word Searches, The Weather for the week, London, England's weather, Who built the London Life Tower, dogs, more specifically Cocker Spaniel dogs, The Oakland Raiders, Food Basics online flyer, A Channel News, America's Next Top Model, and a few I can't remember, in 3 minute increments, reading each page at warp speeds. It was like Speed Surfing! What fun!
- Next up was P...he is pretty proficient with a computer but likes to print things and needs help with this. P has severe OCD, and a need for things to be neat and orderly and precise and printed out! We printed out each of his emails that he received just in case he lost the ones he saved on the computer and then, he printed out by hand and with the precision of a printer itself....the email addresses and names of the people he received emails from...just in case he lost the computer copies and the printed copies of the emails. Then, we re-arranged the mouse pad several times, the chair several times, and the printer several times. What a fun guy!
- Then came D....he was very excited over the purchase of a new digital camera and wanted to know how to take 3 pictures he had taken off of it, and how to print them off. I was excited too as cameras and photo taking is one of my hobbies as well! Once we mastered the art of using the camera we moved on to more serious matters...playing Spider! D is extremely good at this game and makes his own sound effects to go along with it!
- Finally there was R....who showed up in the midst of a winter storm wearing shorts! and boots and a winter coat! He informed me he does not like to wear pants as he does not like the way they feel on his legs! Our whole session was about finding recipes and cutting them and pasting them into Google Folders. R informed me he does not cook, he just likes the Recipes! On that day he was on a quest for Rancher recipes...some of which I told him sounded like road kill to me...which he got a big kick out of!
Here is the Recipe for Mouse Pie!
Hardship Recipes
Mouse Pie
5 fat field mice
1 cup macaroni
1/2 thinly sliced medium onion
1 medium can tomatoes
1 cup cracker crumbs
salt and pepper
Boil macaroni 10 minutes. While it is cooking, fry the field mice long enough to fry out some of the excess fat. Grease a casserole with some of this fat and put a layer of macaroni on it. Add onions, then tomatoes, salt and pepper well. Add field mice and cover with remaining macaroni. Sprinkle the top with cracker crumbs. Bake at 375 degrees about 20 minutes or until mice are well done. (Don't have any field mice? You could use 10 little sausages)
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