Occupational therapy- I'm in shock

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Well, if her OT gig doesn't work out, she may be able to get a job with Molly Maid.

LOL, I think you are misunderstanding what OT is. It is providing you with compensatory strategies to get done what you need to do. She is not going to be scrubbing your floor and doing your dishes. She will help you organize and prioritize and put things ergonomically correct so they are categorized and easily accessible. I can’t advise you either way, because cleaning up is a nice thing to do, but on the other hand you want her to see how you really live so she gets an idea how you live.

One hour appointments may be able to be increased if she can document a need. Are you sure she is jumping into action on your first visit, or is it paperwork, an in home assessment and planning?

Were you somewhat organized before the BI? Do you see a difference in how you lived prior to acquiring that? Or them?

Next week is my second appt with her. She already did an assessment. She told me she was doing to do the dishes. She said that's what she does. I am also physically disabled because I injured my knee several months ago and about a month ago I broke my foot as if one injury wasn't enough. Pain is part of the reason I have not been able to keep my household in order. And also have doctor appts before work every day hasn't helped either because I'm hardly ever at home. So yes she did say she was going to do my dishes to get me caught up then work with me to schedule my tasks so that this doesn't keep happening.

Watch out Ticker ! ! They may be coming to take you away ! !! (ha ha)

Why is your apartment so messy? Is it because of your physical conditions?

Jumping in, my apartment is messy because I am a slobaholic. (I just made that up.)

Partly its my injuries make it difficult to stand up or walk for more than a few minutes. But also I'm told my inattentiveness to details, allowing clutter and disorganization are common symptoms of someone with the kind of brain injury I have. The occupational therapist says I am very, very normal for someone with a BI as she has worked with such people all over the world.

She's suppose to be here in 45 mins so I will update you all later as to what she really does once she gets to my home. I talked to her yesterday and she said she was "very excited" to be coming over to help me. I don't know if she was just saying that to try to get me excited over the prospects of cleaning or what.

How did you get a brain injury? What happened?

I've had 4 head injuries and I got struck by lightning. I got first brain injury when I was 9 months old where a wooden chest lid slammed down on my head and hit so hard it drove my teeth into the bottom edge of the chest. I was stuck there till my dad pried me and my teeth loose from the wood. It left permanent grove marks in the wood. Then in adulthood I fell on ice and hit back of head, got kicked unconscious during my taekwondo blackbelt test and then a year or so ago I whacked my head on the breakfast bar in my apartment.

Then the lightning caused frontal lobe injuries and also burnt my arm and hit me in the stomach.

Whoever said she wasn't going to do dishes was right, I admit.
I either misunderstood her last week or she lied to me. I think she about had a heartattack when she seen the clutter. But she seemed to be nice about the whole thing though I can't tell if she was lying.

She made me wash dishes and clean the sink though we didn't get all the dishes done in the two hours she was here. She did dry and put away some of the dishes. She also made me sit down and write out a organizer thing for my appointments and stuff. I made her fix my hoodie string though! But she did take away my recycling paper and glass.

She's made me write down I would do dishes 30 minutes a day and 1 hour on Sundays for the next two weeks because she will be out of town. God I hate doing dishes. She's like isn't this fun and I'm like no, not really. I hate all domestic stuff. I am not a typical girly-gurl housemaker type. I would rather work at the computer and mechanical stuff or else do yard work. But I have no yard or garden anymore since I live in an apartment since I moved out her.

So much for my first OT home visit. Well if nothing else you guys are learning what its all about before you ask for it.

I am a slob myself. Strangely, I take some comfort in my mess.

me too. I read somewhere that most people of exceptional intelligence live/work in messy environments.

They obviously do not live with someone with OCD. They won't let you have books and manuscripts all over your bed and write until you fall asleep on top to them. I will never understand that! Tyranny, I tell ya!

lol. Nice way to look at it.

It depends on a person's obsessions or compulsions. I have comorbid OCD, and I frequently fall asleep with disorganized stacks of papers next to me.

Quite right even OCD'ers have their priorities. I'm positive I've had OCD since I was a teenager though it was seriously ten times worse when I was a teen and I wasn't tidy then nor am I now. OCD'ers can obsess on different things.

Actually its become a little game for me to see how long or if my psych kind find out I have OCD. Since OCD is so often comorbid with AS and ADD and so very common anyway I would think she would have quizzed me about it. So far the neuropsych and psych have not mentioned it other than one computerized question of "Do you feel like germs are covering everthing and you must kill them". Course I answered yes because I am a major germaphobe.