tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42805849037061144012024-03-13T10:35:33.556+07:00Steady Footsteps Tales of an American Physical Therapist in VietnamSteady Footstepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176965622114268599noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280584903706114401.post-19341308233587182942024-03-04T16:13:00.004+07:002024-03-06T09:56:40.875+07:00Silent Sacrifice<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: left;">Last week I was honored to be invited to participate in a
live television event at </span><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Nhà hát Hồ Gươm (the n</span><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">ew Hanoi Opera House) on the occasion of
Vietnamese Physicians Day. I was the only foreigner to be included in the “Silent
Sacrifice” awards, based on the article written about me </span><a href="https://steadyfootsteps.blogspot.com/2023/11/danviet-online-interview.html" style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">here</a><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left;">. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5dZd3dJOrrFRE5kXduTWqsO1wpss0xluLBn1xYqrpbxizixu0sbBW43dqZFYNXEnech4rO8UYUuIp19YZmd19iH0kpLBhJxxtQ2w0X3h00Ey8PJI-j6yfAzLNkNwVEwOsb9QpPgHo058TDfWgsgHt_1o7UFPrvTuo88gLkKGjTvwgRbh5rTSn-2iGApc/s2560/IMG_20240227_093910.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1706" data-original-width="2560" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5dZd3dJOrrFRE5kXduTWqsO1wpss0xluLBn1xYqrpbxizixu0sbBW43dqZFYNXEnech4rO8UYUuIp19YZmd19iH0kpLBhJxxtQ2w0X3h00Ey8PJI-j6yfAzLNkNwVEwOsb9QpPgHo058TDfWgsgHt_1o7UFPrvTuo88gLkKGjTvwgRbh5rTSn-2iGApc/w422-h275/IMG_20240227_093910.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Therapist </span></i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Thuỷ</span></i></span><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">, Translator Huy, and Virginia at </span></i><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><i>Nhà hát Hồ Gươm</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here is the video clip which focused upon my work in
Vietnam:</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyU0qRrhCeEQWQ_dJgCACJhBuktce8Y4ewSKyBJc3_l2CS6IM6oAeDqP_9cUeJNvOl7dfsv4UTVb3cbqt33ag' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">If you wish to view the entire program, which included
many interesting video clips, speeches by the President of Vietnam and the
Minister of Health, as well as a lot of singing and dancing, just go to <a href="https://vtvgo.vn/xem-truc-tuyen-kenh-vtv1-1.html" target="_blank">this page</a>,
choose this date: </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span>T2 - 26 / 02 / 2024 and at time 20:10 you can select this program:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #dc0000; font-family: NotoSansBold, "serif";">Truyền
hình trực tiếp</span></span></p><div style="background: white; border-bottom: solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #CCCCCC .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 8.0pt 0in;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; padding: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #dc0000; font-family: NotoSansBold, "serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lễ trao
giải cuộc thi viết "Sự hi sinh thầm lặng"</span></span></i><span style="color: #dc0000; font-family: "NotoSansBold","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div></div> <p></p>Steady Footstepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176965622114268599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280584903706114401.post-8627523315960585332023-12-28T12:46:00.003+07:002023-12-29T15:44:48.672+07:00IMAGES FROM LIFE TODAY<p><br /><i style="font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; text-align: center;">A special report aired on VTV1 National News on 27 December 2023:</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwDhJ88wPUKFPP9NfSqBVAsjxjh0Glh09Sbb8EXZ-MWKiQwA24CC2t_EDU5XKjsVnRH4hM3Y7tmrHnVfqf8fQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><b><u>English language transcript:</u></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><b><u><br /></u></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MALE ANNOUCER: Ladies and gentlemen, there are people in
their 30s, 40s—even people whose hair has turned gray—who have to learn simple
things from the beginning such as standing, walking, grabbing, holding. They are patients that are being treated at
the rehab unit of the Traditional Medicine Hospital of Da Nang.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">FEMALE ANNOUCER: These rehabilitation specialists do not brag but
they work steadily in those therapy rooms all day long, helping their patients
to recover. That is our story today:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Impact, "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">IMAGES FROM LIFE TODAY</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">PATIENT ON
BICYCLE: At the beginning, when I first
came here, I had to be pushed in a wheelchair.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">FEMALE
PATIENT: I had a stroke and I couldn’t
stand and walk. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MALE PATIENT: I was
admitted to the hospital with half of my body paralyzed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">FEMALE
PATIENT: I was so upset. I thought I would never stand and walk again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">PATIENT ON
BICYCLE: I came here, and then the staff
encouraged me and advised me to cheer up and do therapy. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">FEMALE
PATIENT: My therapist helped me make
every single step at first and guided my arms.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Impact, "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MALE PATIENT: They
gave me hope.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">THERPAIST
THUY: Patients have to make their best
effort to recover. They have to do
therapy so that later they will be able to integrate back into society well. In the gym we have lots of mirrors. Mirrors help the patients see themselves so
that they can do their exercises more easily and more effectively.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">FEMALE
PATIENT: I come here to do my therapy
every day. It has been almost 10 months
since I first came here.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MALE PATIENT: I have made lots of progress already.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">FEMALE
PATIENT: I have recovered and I feel
healthy now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MALE PATIENT: I’m so very happy!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">FEMALE
PATIENT: I feel as if I have been
reborn.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">PATIENT ON
BICYCLE: I work hard at my therapy so
that I will be strong enough to go home to my children.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">VIRGINIA
LOCKETT, PT: My biggest wish for the
patients and for their families is for them to be as comfortable and as
functional as possible and to have meaningful lives.</span></p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><p></p>Steady Footstepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176965622114268599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280584903706114401.post-81270734671383818442023-11-25T08:54:00.003+07:002023-12-05T16:42:24.539+07:00Dân Việt Emagazine Interview<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDmDDwM_UgpuGyZCd17W2FE9nWlM0Kke5JCdyL5WkrVDFE4oc8vWWESwmKMzoVds9VKICcsQ6c7iIHv-C0RXhwGv4P0_PZabjVlTjGnD-kX-C8dKus7o_LlQ5TRy3e1uCfyu6qSBBlHqhC54Qtq2VBAKjVxARcQ8-kLsGpxK3k0FcJKYhLwb0K0hp5InI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4389" data-original-width="1920" height="767" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDmDDwM_UgpuGyZCd17W2FE9nWlM0Kke5JCdyL5WkrVDFE4oc8vWWESwmKMzoVds9VKICcsQ6c7iIHv-C0RXhwGv4P0_PZabjVlTjGnD-kX-C8dKus7o_LlQ5TRy3e1uCfyu6qSBBlHqhC54Qtq2VBAKjVxARcQ8-kLsGpxK3k0FcJKYhLwb0K0hp5InI=w524-h767" width="524" /></a></div><p></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bà đón chúng tôi ở nhà riêng nằm trong một con ngõ nhỏ trên đường Chế Lan Viên, TP.Đà Nẵng và thật may mắn, hoa hồng trắng cũng chính là loài hoa mà bà Mary Lockett yêu thích. Bà </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">chu</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">ẩn bị một m</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">ó</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">n bánh ngọt do chính tay bà làm để mờ</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">i ch</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">úng tôi thưởng thức. Trong một buổ</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">i chi</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">ều dịu nhẹ, có hoa hồng và bánh ngọt, bà Virginia Mary Lockett chậm r</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">ã</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">i kể về </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">qu</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">ã</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">ng thời gian dài bà đến sống ở Việt Nam như một thước phim chậm mà chính bà cũng ít có thời gian để nhìn lại…</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Trong câu chuyện, thi thoảng bà dừng lại, thi thoảng bà đưa tay lên chạm vào kh</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">ó</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">e mắt… Tôi ngồi đó lắng nghe, trong đầ</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">u c</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">ứ hiện lên hình ảnh của Mẹ </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Teresa - n</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">ữ tu người Ấn Độ - người được mệnh danh là </i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">"V</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">ị thánh của những người khốn khổ</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">". T</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">ôi đem suy nghĩ này n</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">ó</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">i với bà, bà Mary Lockett vội xua tay và n</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">ó</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">i: "Tô</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">i ch</i><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">ỉ là tôi thôi"…</i></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nhắc đến Mẹ </b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Teresa, t</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ô</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">i ch</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ợt nhớ đến câu n</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ó</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">i nổi tiếng của bà</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">: "Vi</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ệc tố</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">t l</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">à những mắt xích tạo nên sợi xích tình yê</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">u". T</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ôi t</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ò </b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">m</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ò </b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">muốn biết, tình yê</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">u c</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ủa bà đối với Việt Nam đã được tạo nên từ nhữ</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ng 'm</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ắt xích' như thế nà</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">o? L</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ần đầu tiên bà đế</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">n Vi</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ệt Nam là khi nà</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">o v</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">à mối duyên nào khiến bà muốn gắn bó và chọn quay lạ</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">i?</b></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">- Nhân duyên giữa tôi và Việt Nam từ năm 1995. Lúc đó, tôi và chồng sang Việt Nam nhận hai đứa con nuôi ở Nha Trang. Trong quá trình nhận con nuôi, chúng tôi đang làm thủ tục thì có một anh bạn đến nhờ tôi giúp cho bố của anh ấy. Bố của anh này bị xe tải tông gãy xương đùi, sau đó lại bị tai biến không thể đi lại. Thời điểm đó ở Việt Nam, hệ thống y tế chưa phát triển về phục hồi chức năng.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">Anh ấy nhờ tôi giúp đỡ nhưng tôi cũng không chắc mình có thể làm gì để giúp được. Không rõ anh ta có nói lại với cha mình hay không nhưng tôi thấy ông ấy bật khóc rất to, người con trai cũng khóc theo. Hình ảnh đó cứ in đậm trong tâm trí tôi suốt 10 năm sau.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">Tới năm 2005, tức là sau khi đã nhận con nuôi và quay trở về Mỹ, tôi tìm kiếm thông tin để đi làm thiện nguyện về phục hồi chức năng và vật lý trị liệu. Thời điểm đó ở Haiti vừa có động đất, tôi muốn sang đó, tuy nhiên sau khi liên hệ một số tổ chức thì họ bảo thứ họ cần là chăm sóc y tế ban đầu. Họ giới thiệu cho tôi một số tổ chức khác, trong đó Tổ chức Tình nguyện y tế hải ngoại (HVO) có chương trình kêu gọi tình nguyện viên về vật lý trị liệu đến làm việc tại Trung tâm chấn thương chỉnh hình Đà Nẵng, bây giờ là Bệnh viện Chấn thương chỉnh hình Đà Nẵng, tôi đã đăng ký đi tình nguyện 3 tuần.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">Sau 3 tuần ở Việt Nam, tôi thấy sau khi chuyên gia rời đi thì những kinh nghiệm họ để lại không được ứng dụng nhiều. Vì vậy, tôi nảy ra ý tưởng ở lại Việt Nam lâu dài.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">Tôi về lại Mỹ và liên hệ với Đại sứ Việt Nam tại Washington D.C, trình bày rằng tôi có mong muốn giúp đỡ phía Việt Nam trong lĩnh vực vật lý trị liệu, phục hồi chức năng với kinh nghiệm chuyên môn như vậy. Đại sứ phúc đáp rằng, cảm ơn tình cảm chân thành tôi đã dành cho Việt Nam, nhưng nếu làm việc với tư cách cá nhân thì không đúng pháp lý, tôi nên tìm kiếm một tổ chức nào đó để làm tình nguyện viên cho tổ chức đó thì sẽ hợp pháp về mặt giấy tờ.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">Tôi tìm kiếm không thấy tổ chức nào cùng chung mục tiêu giống như ý tưởng của mình nên tôi đã nghĩ ra cách xin giấy phép lập một tổ chức cho riêng mình để sau này có tư cách pháp nhân ở lại Việt Nam dài lâu. Tôi cùng chồng đã rất nhanh chóng thành lập một tổ chức có tư cách pháp nhân tên là Steady Footsteps.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">Khi đã xong về mặt thủ tục nhưng về vấn đề đi lại, không thể đi đi về về được vì chúng tôi không có nhiều tiền. Cuối cùng, tôi nghĩ chỉ có một cách duy nhất là phải bán nhà mới có tiền để sống và trang trải.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bán nhà </b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">qu</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ả là một quyết định liều lĩ</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">nh. </b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Để có một quyết định như vậy hẳn không dễ dàng gì</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">? B</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">à đã gặp những trở ngạ</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">i g</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ì</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">?</b></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">-<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b></i>Vì vợ chồng tôi xác định ý nguyện như vậy thì chỉ một sự lựa chọn duy nhất, không có lựa chọn thứ hai. Nếu như bạn có nhiều sự lựa chọn thì sẽ phức tạp hơn nhưng nếu chỉ có một lựa chọn thì lại đơn giản.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">Lúc đó vợ chồng tôi sống thoải mái nhưng không dư dả, để thực hiện nguyện vọng thì chỉ có thể bán nhà mới có thể trang trải cuộc sống.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">Lúc bán nhà thì chồng tôi ủng hộ 100%, 2 người con lớn của tôi không có ý kiến gì còn người con trai út thì không vui chút nào.</p><figure allow-zoom="false" class="VCSortableInPreviewMode small-img alignJustifyFull noCaption" data-style="align-justify-full" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; cursor: default; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px auto 15px calc((-100vw + 650px) / 2); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 100vw; z-index: 90;" type="Photo"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="detail-img-lightbox" data-fancybox-group="img-lightbox" href="https://danviet.mediacdn.vn/296231569849192448/2023/11/12/virginia-mary-lockett-pc-version06-16998049245371238700229.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3367d6; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: unset; vertical-align: baseline;" title=""></a></div></figure></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjltNB_whfKwOb6_LWMlaWCDJpEQMaUjvu0rLgDXRgTiS_lZho3XYJo0O408CL8LNBl51ezUZpK7TkzAHUNmURNcUzky954q2bfE92CiB2-WxWNZoaxCxiYd-IwvRyoueZXMMeAIsN2po7poe2wOzDVQgzEkXH4ofovI1W_kkwGw-dQUJ4cT2FudCa09xY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="1920" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjltNB_whfKwOb6_LWMlaWCDJpEQMaUjvu0rLgDXRgTiS_lZho3XYJo0O408CL8LNBl51ezUZpK7TkzAHUNmURNcUzky954q2bfE92CiB2-WxWNZoaxCxiYd-IwvRyoueZXMMeAIsN2po7poe2wOzDVQgzEkXH4ofovI1W_kkwGw-dQUJ4cT2FudCa09xY=w395-h280" width="395" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thời điểm đó</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">, cu</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ộc sống ở Mỹ của bà thế nà</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">o?</b></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Lúc đó, tôi là chuyên viên vật lý trị liệu, cuộc sống ở Mỹ của tôi tương đối thoải mái, có 3 đứa con trong đó có một đứa con ruột và 2 đứa con nuôi người Việt. Năm 2006 thì 1 con ruột và 1 con nuôi đã dọn ra ở riêng. Chỉ có một mình con trai út sống chung với chúng tôi. Mức lương của tôi lúc đó cũng khá, đủ để tôi chăm lo cho gia đình. Tôi không có nhu cầu làm giàu.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Làm thiện nguyện thì không có thu nhập, tuy vậy mức sống ở Việt Nam so với Mỹ thì rẻ hơn. Hơn nữa, khi làm việc ở Việt Nam, do không bị vướng bận chuyện hồ sơ, bệnh án, giấy tờ nên tôi được tập trung vào đúng chuyên môn của mình.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tại sao khi nhậ</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">n con nu</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ôi bà lại nghĩ đế</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">n Vi</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ệt Nam?</b></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Từ lúc còn là thanh niên tôi đã có ý tưởng sau này có thể nhận con nuôi và tìm hiểu một số thủ tục, chính sách đối với việc nhận con nuôi như là độ tuổi, điều kiện có con cái hay chưa…</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sau khi kết hôn, tôi và chồng thống nhất với nhau là sẽ nhận hai người con nuôi. Tôi nghĩ việc nhận con nuôi người Việt sẽ góp phần nhỏ hàn gắn mối quan hệ giữa Việt Nam và Mỹ và mang lại lợi ích cho người Việt. Tôi rất vui khi làm điều này.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thông thường bố mẹ nhận con ở độ tuổi rất nhỏ, nhưng trường hợp của tôi thì khác, lúc tôi nhận con nuôi thì con ruột của tôi đã 13 tuổi và 2 con nuôi, con gái 10 tuổi và con trai 3 tuổi.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Giống như chuyện tôi sang Việt Nam hỗ trợ chuyên môn về vật lý trị liệu, việc hai chị em mà chúng tôi nhận làm con nuôi cũng là một cái duyên. Mới đầu chúng tôi định nhận hai người con trai nhưng sau đó tình huống đưa đến là một cặp chị em thì đó là điều may mắn và chúng tôi đón nhận.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Vì sao bà chọn Đà Nẵng, mà không phải là Hà Nội, TP.HCM hay một địa phương nào khá</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">c?</b></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Có nhiều yếu tố, thứ nhất đó là chuyến đi đầu tiên để giúp đỡ về chuyên môn ở Đà Nẵng. Thứ hai, ở Mỹ các tổ chức thường hay tập trung về Hà Nội, TP.HCM, còn Đà Nẵng tuy nhỏ thôi nhưng cũng là một điểm cần hỗ trợ và là trung tâm của khu vực miền Trung. Tôi thấy môi trường sống ở Đà Nẵng khá thoải mái, thời tiết dễ chịu nên tôi đã ở lại thành phố này.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Như vậ</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">y l</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">à bà đã đến đâ</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">y, l</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">à</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">m c</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ông việc thiện nguyện này được 17 năm - đó là một chặng đường dà</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">i, ch</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ắc hẳn bà đã có rất nhiều kỷ niệm, nhiều sự gắn bó với nơi đâ</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">y?</b></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Như bạn đã biết, trước năm 2007, tình trạng chấn thương sọ não ở Việt Nam rất nhiều.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ngày 15/12/2007 Việt Nam áp dụng luật bắt buộc đội mũ bảo hiểm khi đi xe máy, từ đó tình trạng chấn thương sọ não ở Việt Nam ít hơn hẳn so với trước.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trước đó 6 tháng tôi đã bỏ tiền túi ra mua 3.401 chiếc mũ bảo hiểm để tặng cho toàn bộ nhân viên y tế làm việc tại các bệnh viện trên địa bàn TP.Đà Nẵng, từ trạm y tế đến bệnh viện quận, bệnh viện tuyến đầu.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Có lần tôi và chồng đi ăn trưa thấy tai nạn xảy ra trước mặt, bệnh nhân nằm đó bị chấn thương sọ não, những chuyện đó quá khủng khiếp và diễn ra hàng ngày.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ban đầu chính bản thân tôi cũng nghĩ luật đội mũ bảo hiểm chưa chắc đã áp dụng vì chắc gì mọi người đã tuân thủ nhưng sau này mới thấy sự hiệu quả. Ngày 15/12/2007 tôi rất vui, cực kỳ vui!.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lúc đó tôi làm về chấn thương sọ não, tôi nghĩ nếu có cách gì bảo vệ cái đầu thì họ sẽ không bị chấn thương, số lượng bệnh nhân ít đi thì quá tốt cho xã hội.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Khoảng năm 2013, sau khi tôi về làm tình nguyện viên tại Bệnh viện y học cổ truyền Đà Nẵng được vài năm, bác sĩ Nguyễn Văn Ánh - Giám đốc mới của Bệnh viện thời điểm đó có trao đổi với tôi rằng, bệnh viện muốn phát triển mảng phục hồi chức năng. Tôi đã giúp bệnh viên đào tạo một đội ngũ kĩ thuật viên có chuyên môn tốt, nâng cao uy tín cho bệnh viện.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit;">Tâm lý thông thường của người bệnh khi đ</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit;">au </b><b style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit;">đớn, người ta thường có những tâm trạng yếu đuối, ủ rũ mất tinh thần, nếu không thì lại trở nên đối nghịch không hợp tác. Cộng thêm với việc bất đồng ngôn ngữ</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit;">, l</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit;">àm thế nào để bà cảm nhận/chia sẻ được với nỗi đ</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit;">au c</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit;">ủa họ</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit;">?</b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Tôi nghĩ đó là chịu khó gặp, tiếp xúc với bệnh nhân tai biến, hãy dùng chính tình yêu thương của bạn để cảm nhận họ, sau đó mới sử dụng biện pháp tâm lý kết hợp với biện pháp điều trị.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Một bệnh nhân tốt là bệnh nhân hợp tác và nghe lời nhân viên y tế. Bác sĩ, điều dưỡng mong muốn bệnh nhân hợp tác với mình thì phải chủ động. Tôi làm chuyên môn, anh có vấn đề thì tôi điều trị cho anh, anh phải lắng nghe tôi.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Riêng về vật lý trị liệu lại khác, não có những cấu trúc não rất phức tạp, riêng bệnh nhân điều trị tổn thương não thì không hề đơn giản và đặc biệt là không bệnh nhân nào giống với bệnh nhân nào cả. Tôi cần đánh giá bệnh nhân để xem vấn đề nằm ở đâu để hiểu bệnh nhân, hiểu những vấn đề bệnh nhân đang phải đối mặt. Tôi đã điều trị cho hàng ngàn bệnh nhân, điều đó cũng có nghĩa là tôi đã trải qua vô vàn tình huống khác nhau.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Khi hiểu bệnh nhân có những yếu tố như: Bệnh nhân bị liệt một bên; bệnh nhân bị rối loạn cảm giác; bệnh nhân thất ngôn không thể diễn đạt và không hiểu những gì người khác nói với mình, người nhà cũng không hiểu… tôi tìm hiểu hết các vấn đề của bệnh nhân sau đó sẽ giải thích cho bệnh nhân cùng người nhà của họ, bây giờ tình trạng của họ như thế nào, có bao nhiêu vấn đề.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><figure allow-zoom="false" class="VCSortableInPreviewMode small-img alignJustifyFull noCaption" data-style="align-justify-full" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: default; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px auto 15px calc((-100vw + 650px) / 2); overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; width: 100vw; z-index: 90;" type="Photo"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="detail-img-lightbox" data-fancybox-group="img-lightbox" href="https://danviet.mediacdn.vn/296231569849192448/2023/11/12/virginia-mary-lockett-pc-version205-1699805072666476874840.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3367d6; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: unset; vertical-align: baseline;" title=""></a></div></figure><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Trong lúc làm tôi cũng hay hài hước với bệnh nhân, khiến họ vui vẻ, tâm trạng tốt. Chắc chắn không phải với bệnh nhân nào cũng có thể phục hồi 100%, nhưng khi đến với tôi thì thời gian sau họ sẽ có thay đổi, khi họ thấy sự thay đổi thì chắc chắn họ sẽ không bỏ cuộc, họ tin vì trước đó họ không làm được, bây giờ họ làm được.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Xin được mượn lời thơ trong bài thơ của lương y Phan Công Tuấn viết tặng bà "Người đàn bà ngồi may". Thú thực, khi đọc bài thơ này, tôi lại thấy bà không phải là người phụ nữ đến từ miền Đông nước Mỹ</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">- v</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ù</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ng đất mẹ của 8 đời tổng thống Mỹ, mà bà chính là hình ảnh của một người mẹ Việt Nam tảo tần, giàu tình yêu thương và lòng trắc ẩn. Bà có thể chia sẻ cho chúng tôi về công việc thầm lặng hàng đêm này khô</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ng?</b></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Việc may đai cho bệnh nhân là để cho bệnh nhân được an toàn, chống té ngã. Khi mới làm, vì thiếu vải nên số đai tôi tặng cho bệnh nhân không đủ. Thời gian gần đây thì có nhiều vải hơn vì tôi đi kiếm vải rẻ chút xíu để về may thêm. Tôi cũng có một số kỹ năng may vá, áo quần đơn giản tôi có thể tự may được.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Một ngày có 24 tiếng đồng hồ, tôi làm việc ở viện buổi sáng, buổi chiều ở nhà may vá, vừa may vừa nghe nhạc cũng là niềm vui và có thể giúp cho các bệnh nhân. Khi tuổi của tôi ngày càng cao, việc may vá cũng gặp một số trở ngại, nhưng tôi vẫn sẽ cố gắng mỗi ngày, từng chút từng chút một…</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Khi chúng tôi đến đây, đã được nghe n</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ó</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">i về một bức tượng đồng do chính đội ngũ y, bác sĩ trong bệnh viện chung tay tạo nên để tôn vinh tấm lòng cam cả và sự hy sinh thầm lặng của bà dành cho bệnh nhân và bệnh viện trong nhiều nă</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">m qua. C</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ảm xúc của bà khi nhận m</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ón qu</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">à tinh thần này như thế nà</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">o?</b></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Trước đó tôi không biết gì cho đến Ngày Thầy thuốc Việt Nam năm 2021, bệnh viện mời tôi lên tham dự như mọi năm. Khi bác sĩ Ánh mời nhà điêu khắc Phạm Văn Hạng lên cùng ông gỡ tấm màn phủ trên bức tượng, mất mấy giây tôi mới nhận ra đó là mình. Tôi không tin mình được tạc tượng! Tôi không nghĩ có ai đó sẽ đi tạc tượng mình, đây là lần đầu tiên trong đời tôi. Tôi vô cùng ngạc nhiên và xúc động vì món quà quá bất ngờ. Tôi cảm kích tấm lòng của mọi người đã yêu thương tôi.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lúc công bố có một đoàn cán bộ của Nhật Bản sang thăm bệnh viện, họ đứng chụp hình với bức tượng. Tôi nói với ông người Nhật "các ông làm sao giúp giùm, họ ghi nhận tấm lòng của các ông đấy, đây là bằng chứng". Họ cũng ngạc nhiên và nói sẽ giúp đỡ Việt Nam.</p><p></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Những bác sĩ phục hồi có nói chuyện vui với tôi là nếu bác sĩ họ muốn làm giàu thì chẳng có ai đi làm phục hồi cả vì sự họ không có tiền.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">17 năm vớ</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">i c</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ông việc thiện nguyện tại đây, chứng kiến nhiề</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">u c</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">âu chuyện, nhiều cuộc đời và cả những nỗi đau muôn hình vạn trạng, bà thấy sự thay đổi như thế nào trong lĩnh vự</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">c y h</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ọc ở Việt Nam?</b></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Công việc chuyên môn của tôi là phục hồi chức năng, để đến được được phục hồi chức năng bệnh nhân phải cấp cứu ban đầu và sống sót đã. Ngày xưa mà gãy xương đùi thì chuyện mổ xẻ vô cùng khó khăn, bây giờ mà gãy, vào viện là mổ liền. Lúc đó Nha Trang là một thành phố không phải nhỏ nhưng cũng không có điều kiện để mổ, còn bây giờ hoàn toàn khác. Trước đây bị đứt dây chằng làm gì có chuyện mổ tái tạo, thay khớp gối, thay khớp háng, bây giờ có thể thực hiện được rồi. Đó là sự thay đổi lớn ở Việt Nam.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lúc ở bên Mỹ bệnh nhân của tôi liên quan đến chấn thương gãy xương, mổ thay khớp gối, thay khớp háng rất nhiều nhưng lúc đó ở Việt Nam chưa có điều kiện. Nếu bệnh nhân bị chấn thương sọ não thì trước tiên là phải cứu chữa ban đầu cho bệnh nhân sống sót thì mới đến phục hồi. Nếu như y tế ban đầu không đủ thì bệnh nhân sẽ không thể phục hồi được. Bây giờ thực sự cấp cứu ban đầu hơn hẳn so với hồi đó.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nếu, tô</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">i ch</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ỉ giả sử thôi, một ngày nào đó, những người thân của bà ở Mỹ chất vấn rằng, vì sao bà lự</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">a ch</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ọn rời xa họ, để đến một nơi xa xôi như Việt Nam và ở lạ</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">i g</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ần như phần lớn đời người, bà sẽ trả lời thế nà</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">o? </b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Đó có phải là triế</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">t l</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ý </b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">cu</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ộc đời cho đi trong sự thầm lặng của bà khô</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">ng?</b></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Từ năm 19 tuổi tôi đã có mong muốn làm việc thiện nguyện. Sự hy sinh thầm lặng, tôi chỉ muốn giữ cho riêng mình, bởi quan điểm của tôi là tôi biết đủ, chưa bao giờ tôi nghĩ mình cần làm gì để trở nên thật giàu có. Tôi nghĩ những gì mình có hiện giờ là đủ, tôi nên làm một người hữu ích cho cộng đồng, đó là điều làm cho tôi cảm thấy hạnh phúc.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Còn một điều hơi cá nhân chút, khi con cái chúng tôi đã trưởng thành, giữa vợ chồng tôi và con cái không được gần gũi lắm. Chính vì tôi không có sự ràng buộc nhiều nên mới có thể làm thiện nguyện được. Bố mẹ của hai bên đã mất hết, anh em có một người duy nhất mà mối quan hệ anh em bên đó không giống như ở Việt Nam. Số thành viên trong gia đình không nhiều và không có nhiều sự kết nối. Họ sống độc lập và đó là văn hoá ở Mỹ.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Điều ước vào ngày sinh nhật gần đây nhất của bà là gì, thưa bà</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">?</b></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Tôi chỉ có điều ước lớn nhất là có đủ sức khoẻ để tiếp tục công việc, điều ước thứ nhì là làm sao được tiếp tục làm công việc mà mình đang làm, thứ ba là tôi ước được sống ở Việt Nam lâu dài cho đến cuối đời. Bởi vì hiện tôi đang có một số trở ngại về việc làm visa, tạm trú khó vô cùng. Nếu sau này tôi không đủ sức khoẻ làm việc nữa thì làm sao để sống ở Việt Nam một cách hợp pháp.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cơ chế hiện giờ chưa có, nếu không làm thiện nguyện nữa thì không thể dựa vào công việc để xin visa và tạm trú được. Nếu là khách du lịch thì hiện là 3 tháng còn trước đây chỉ có 1 tháng thôi, đó là một trong những điều ước của tôi.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rất nhiều người nước ngoài tìm cách nhập cư vào Mỹ, nhưng từ ngày sang đây tôi chưa lấy một đồng nào của Việt Nam ra nước ngoài, chỉ có chuyện tiêu tiền đô ở đây. Tôi không có tiền lương trong 17 năm. Việc xin quốc tịch ở Việt Nam thì xa vời nhưng đến cả xin thường trú hiện tại cũng rất khó khăn trong khi công việc tôi làm rất rõ ràng.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tôi lo đến tuổi không đủ sức khoẻ làm việc nữa, nhà bên kia đã bán, đốt cầu qua sông rồi thì quay về bên kia cũng đâu còn nhà để ở. Tôi thực sự muốn ở lại Việt Nam, Đà Nẵng thực sự là nhà của tôi chứ không phải là quê hương thứ hai nữa.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202124; font-family: NotoSerif, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Xin c</i></b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">ảm ơn bà về </i></b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">cu</i></b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">ộc tr</i></b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">ò </i></b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">chuyệ</i></b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">n!</i></b></p><p style="border: 0px; 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text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzEtWc8poRUhStTz29J4Zxp4NsD2rf109Eb7B9_9alT0iE7iDgZ_HGqAIcdJFxLGZ6w_3L7--7K5G2cEZoCYA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>Steady Footstepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176965622114268599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280584903706114401.post-23742938580151121262023-09-14T10:21:00.001+07:002023-09-17T10:57:34.092+07:00The Sewing Lady<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis4P8RyrQOkhvfVtv6hxx0aH20aJHCD6pHeQLahyRDPG9HUyran8YWXcCfkJKEaJrdxrGDXWWkh_SOvHiKW6Yzv_7PqHkOkP2b8zgCnohPD44W09kV0Dcls6H4PdOqXt4PWk6hqLclbfzw4VUvcawN4YnSM-yBMyPv8fitnF2q3Aptx1XaXne2b8GKPw4/s1528/received_862036695636004.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1528" data-original-width="1080" height="747" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis4P8RyrQOkhvfVtv6hxx0aH20aJHCD6pHeQLahyRDPG9HUyran8YWXcCfkJKEaJrdxrGDXWWkh_SOvHiKW6Yzv_7PqHkOkP2b8zgCnohPD44W09kV0Dcls6H4PdOqXt4PWk6hqLclbfzw4VUvcawN4YnSM-yBMyPv8fitnF2q3Aptx1XaXne2b8GKPw4/w528-h747/received_862036695636004.jpeg" width="528" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">N G Ư Ờ I Đ À N B À N G Ồ I M A Y</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Kính tặng Bà Virginia Mary Lockett</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Chuyên gia Phục hồi chức năng tại Bệnh viện YHCT Đà Nẵng</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Người đàn bà ngồi may</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Không phải áo cho chồng</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Không phải váy cho con</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Người đàn bà ngồi may</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Giữa mùa đông giá rét</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Chân đạp trên bàn đạp chiếc máy may cũ kỹ</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tiếng xình xịch như vọng từ quá khứ</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Những đường may nhẫn nại</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Đan vào từng thớ vải đêm nay</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Người đàn bà ngồi may</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Để ngày mai</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Mang lên bệnh viện</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Món quà tặng cho bao người cần đến</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Ở đơn vị Phục hồi chức năng</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Những bước chân khập khiễng thăng bằng</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Những cánh tay ngập ngừng đánh võng</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tìm điểm nối tương lai</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Người đàn bà ngồi may</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Những chiếc đai</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Giúp kỹ thuật viên đôi tay bớt mỏi</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Giúp bệnh nhân phòng chống té ngã</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Những bước chân vững vàng</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bện chặt tựa hôm nay</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Người đàn bà ngồi may</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Đến từ bang Virginia miền Đông nước Mỹ</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Vùng đất mẹ của 8 đời tổng thống</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Lại chọn Đà Nẵng làm quê hương</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Người đàn bà ngồi may</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Đã 16 năm trường </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tình nguyện tập phục hồi chức năng </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cho hàng ngàn bệnh nhân chấn thuơng bại liệt</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Người đàn bà ngồi may</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cho bao người lành lặn</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Người đàn bà ngồi may</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Như Bồ tát thị hiện</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Giữa cõi đời thánh thiện </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">An lành mùa Giáng sinh !</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">3.01.2023</div><div id="m_-154688754732928102yMail_cursorElementTracker_1694906937112" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">TUẤN PHAN</div><div><br /></div> <p></p>Steady Footstepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176965622114268599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280584903706114401.post-5019511385780235572023-01-07T12:10:00.035+07:002023-01-19T14:12:18.000+07:00Certificate of Merit from the People’s Committee of Da Nang<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIw8C3fSo6PjBtpBCQWqoVTaVHL0HjS4DAOM0mCh9BDQ3Y6sTS0Eu3Ben6Lbi7RYuQcbkPV6m9PXsaaL4XxxnJAPUC3k34w9i3gVRCi1JjnwZWTwVPolPZmxy8D6iqVkvzVPD2lcqXy1xVS4mwgq6kQ7qE5wAzCMtbpPe85MpRzUjtMSCTZqDjcVz0/s4128/20230106_171304.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3096" data-original-width="4128" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIw8C3fSo6PjBtpBCQWqoVTaVHL0HjS4DAOM0mCh9BDQ3Y6sTS0Eu3Ben6Lbi7RYuQcbkPV6m9PXsaaL4XxxnJAPUC3k34w9i3gVRCi1JjnwZWTwVPolPZmxy8D6iqVkvzVPD2lcqXy1xVS4mwgq6kQ7qE5wAzCMtbpPe85MpRzUjtMSCTZqDjcVz0/w397-h298/20230106_171304.jpg" width="397" /></a></div><p></p><p><span face="Calibri, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Last night, for the fifth time, I was honored to receive a Certificate of Merit from the Peoples'
Committee of Da Nang. It has been an honor and a privilege to have worked
for the past 16 years to improve the quality of rehabilitation provided at the
public hospitals of Da Nang for patients with neurological problems.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuCOXMoVdDeuLSlTH4tvZz3XPtYIhOJTy0mv0jflorQPvhdBLewqXOxdZ0bTogdmNCuTLAph0vlyu2oaq1-xBJjsfrkZcbZJAFrwJ4Qg-495LUlPbwpo33kb8gzEgGktTwWN-DRWNOSHVHcyCQllyZ9bVx9fQBq7UnYn7txPEif6XlbM5EKV5lJwH1/s4128/20230106_171025.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3096" data-original-width="4128" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuCOXMoVdDeuLSlTH4tvZz3XPtYIhOJTy0mv0jflorQPvhdBLewqXOxdZ0bTogdmNCuTLAph0vlyu2oaq1-xBJjsfrkZcbZJAFrwJ4Qg-495LUlPbwpo33kb8gzEgGktTwWN-DRWNOSHVHcyCQllyZ9bVx9fQBq7UnYn7txPEif6XlbM5EKV5lJwH1/w361-h271/20230106_171025.jpg" width="361" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUbrxyJ5Hf14urx-1fIxd0qjmwUdw7m0ODD4YnhPV8QVF6UXNiBEUE7MRLLEvncc24A8K5olWkEe_NrtRFsgdU4ubqDEPQnVJYmcJbrxyXBvXukmiHSfayxA8hMoXo9f_sDvJQnE5aKNxM0eF6aVtbs-GfYgjFkJyby4UZ1SOd5sBwCbPJH7HNg1uR/s4128/20230106_184934.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3096" data-original-width="4128" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUbrxyJ5Hf14urx-1fIxd0qjmwUdw7m0ODD4YnhPV8QVF6UXNiBEUE7MRLLEvncc24A8K5olWkEe_NrtRFsgdU4ubqDEPQnVJYmcJbrxyXBvXukmiHSfayxA8hMoXo9f_sDvJQnE5aKNxM0eF6aVtbs-GfYgjFkJyby4UZ1SOd5sBwCbPJH7HNg1uR/w370-h277/20230106_184934.jpg" width="370" /></a></div><br />Steady Footstepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176965622114268599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280584903706114401.post-32679558833456566932022-10-25T16:05:00.000+07:002022-10-25T16:05:24.701+07:00A Lovely Letter (in English and in Vietnamese)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRWolV4bxo7reX4fbhtQS1bcWIe12iQA6wn6zJYvj9pYFbd6rVzUjo1L2Fxf0PxBwCeCOI6gsdKnwdT7R10ZRms7vYKBibQA2McTi-IgouAF-ZetrZvxtJbtoesJY0QGLiM60iZ0eijKlyIVyQszsGB_uTapcV2m0mffQMkWOiDRnrVWK2FilnWQ5U/s2868/IMG_20221025_082352.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2868" data-original-width="1946" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRWolV4bxo7reX4fbhtQS1bcWIe12iQA6wn6zJYvj9pYFbd6rVzUjo1L2Fxf0PxBwCeCOI6gsdKnwdT7R10ZRms7vYKBibQA2McTi-IgouAF-ZetrZvxtJbtoesJY0QGLiM60iZ0eijKlyIVyQszsGB_uTapcV2m0mffQMkWOiDRnrVWK2FilnWQ5U/s320/IMG_20221025_082352.jpg" width="217" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Kính gửi bà Virginia Mary Lockett!</span><p></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bà Virginia kính mến!</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Khi tôi viết những dòng này gửi bà thì tôi đã ở bv YHCT này được 52 ngày, kể từ ngày khởi bịnh thì là 69 ngày. Thời gian còn quá ít để hiểu sâu sắc hơn về bà.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tôi biết bà không phải qua thông tin từ Việt Nam, đất nước của tôi mà qua con trai của v/c một người bạn thân thời đại học đang ở cách xa nửa vòng trái đất, cháu là một bác sĩ về chấn thương chỉnh hình, hiện đang sống ở Manchester,Anh quốc. Qua đó tôi biết về những đóng góp hết sức to lớn của bà cho khoa phục hồi chức năng còn mới mẻ ở bv này. Tôi đến với bv YHCT từ nguồn thông tin đó, và tôi cho đó là nhân duyên tôi được gặp bà và các cọng sự tại khoa phục hồi chức năng này.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Buổi sáng đầu tiên tôi đã được bà kiểm tra rất kỹ lưỡng tình trạng vận động, trao đổi, bàn bạc với kỹ thuật viên về phương cách tập luyện đối với từng kiểu tổn thương não bộ khác nhau.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tôi có thiện cảm ngay với bà bởi cách làm việc tận tuỵ, khoa học, linh hoạt và nét mặt hiền từ, ánh mắt thân thiện, nụ cười nhẹ nhõm của bà như trấn an các bịnh nhân đang có cuộc sống bình thường bỗng rơi vào cảnh ngộ bại liệt. Bà đến đúng giờ, ngồi vào vị trí có thể quan sát toàn phòng tập để theo dõi, kịp thời điều chỉnh những sai sót nếu có, bất kể ngày nắng ngày mưa.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Qua thời gian một tháng rưỡi luyện tập tôi thấy cơ thể mình có những chuyển biến tích cực, đủ để củng cố niềm tin trong tôi. Buổi sáng, tôi thường được vợ đẩy xe xuống sớm để dạo quanh sân vườn bịnh viện nhằm hít thở khí trời trong lành, bà cũng đến sớm bằng xe máy và vẫy tay chào tôi, tôi thấy bất ngờ và vui vô cùng vì bà vẫn nhận ra tôi trong số bịnh nhân đông đúc ở phòng tập, phải gọi tên cái vẫy tay thân ái và tiếng chào thân thiện đó thì tôi gọi đó là một tấm lòng!</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tôi đã được bà dành nguyên 2 buổi tập để hướng dẫn cách tập bước ngang, cách đi cầu thang, bà đã xoá tan đi nỗi lo của tôi về khớp xương bị đau, thì ra chỉ do thiếu vận động. </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Nhớ ngày nhập viện,từ việc nằm yên, đến nỗi các bạn tôi phải bế tôi từ xe hơi qua xe lăn, giờ tôi đã đi lại được mặc dù phải chống gậy mới thật yên tâm. </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Trong tôi, hôm nay tràn đầy niềm tin vào ngày xuất viện, ngày đó tôi sẽ tự tin bước đi trên đôi chân của chính mình, tôi sẽ vẫy tay chào tạm biệt bằng cả hai tay( ngay lúc này một tay của tôi vẫn còn rất yếu)để cám ơn toàn thể y bác sĩ và nếu được cho phép tôi xin dang rộng đôi tay để ôm tất cả mọi người đã rất tận tuỵ , hết lòng giúp đỡ, quan tâm chăm sóc tôi trong những ngày điều trị và nhất là đối với bà Virginia, người đã gieo trong lòng tôi niềm tin vào một ngày mai tươi sáng,để tôi có được sự “ Nổ lực để trở về” (như một slogan của khoa) với cuộc sống mến yêu. </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Những ngày còn đi làm việc, tôi đã từng quyết tâm xây dựng nền văn hoá doanh nghiệp cho đơn vị và khi đến bịnh viện này tôi đã thấy nét văn hoá của đơn vị thể hiện qua giao tiếp, qua môi trường xanh, sạch, đẹp từ khóm cây, thảm cỏ, qua cung cách quản lí, qua sinh hoạt tập thể của cán bộ nhân viên.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Bs Viirginia thân mến!tôi nghĩ rằng bà đã chọn đúng nơi mình gửi gắm những ý nguyện tuyệt vời của đời bà, được toàn tâm, toàn ý phục vụ bịnh nhân không điều kiện trong một môi trường rất lành mạnh, đầy tình cảm như BV y học cổ truyền ĐN.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Cho tôi xin cúi đầu cảm phục.</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Những điều tâm sự cùng bà chắc chưa nói hết. Tôi hy vọng được bà cho phép được giữ liên lạc cùng bà để học tập đức hạnh từ bà. Cầu chúc bà có sức khoẻ để tiếp sức cho khoa phục hồi chức năng nói riêng và cho ngành y học còn nhiều kiếm khuyết của đất nước chúng tôi. Xin gửi đến bà lời kính chào trân trọng!</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Đà Nẵng 20.10.2022</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bịnh nhân </div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hồ Văn Chỉnh</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Ps: kính nhờ anh Huy dịch giúp bức thư để chuyển lòng biết ơn của tôi đến bà- Xin đa tạ !</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Dear Virginia,<br /><br />I am writing to you on the 52nd day of my inpatient with the Traditional medicine hospital, 69 days from the day got the stroke.<br /><br />I didn't hear about you from the news in Vietnam but from another physio therapist living in Manchester - UK who is the son of one of my best friends from high school. When I first got stroke, he tried to reach out to see if I needed any help and through him, I got to know about you and your devotion & contribution for the lives of so many patients in Vietnam. Since then, I have had a chance to get to know you and other therapists in this department and have been well taken care of, physically and mentally.<br /><br />I still remember my first day at this hospital....you did a thorough check up on me and laid out the best approach given my condition. I can't say enough how much I appreciate your work ethic and the love you give to this place. It is not only just your technical skills but also how you care about our mental status has helped us a lot in making good progress. Your eyes, smiles, facial expression and body language have swept away the language barrier to give us real motivation. It feels like you can feel our pain & frustration. You are always there, everyday, at your seat, watching out for us, for every patients....<br /><br />It has been a month and a half, I can feel I am making good progress, enough to reinforce my belief in a day that I can walk again. Every morning, my wife takes me for a 'walk' in the garden to get some fresh air...and you were there on your motorbike waving at me...it caught me by surprise that you still recognized me among thousands of patients. I guess you know us all - your patients. I guess that is love - to your work and the people here.<br /><br />I have spent 2 full sessions with you to learn how to walk across, walking up & down the stairs and you really made me more relaxed, reinforced my belief in recovery and lifted up my spirit. Still remember the first day coming here, my friend had to lift me up from the car to the wheelchair, now I am able to walk with the cane & some assistance.<br />I can now see the day I can really walk out of the hospital on my own legs and wave at you with my both hands (only one working now <img alt="😊" aria-label="😊" class="an1 CToWUd" data-bit="iit" data-emoji="😊" loading="lazy" src="https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/e/notoemoji/14.0/1f60a/72.png" style="height: 1.2em; vertical-align: middle; width: 1.2em;" />) to thank all of you. If allowed, I would love to give all of you a big hug for what you have done for me, especially Virginia, who have seeded in me the belief on a brighter day, just like what you have done to so many patients. I commit to be a good part of your program 'Nỗ lực để trở về', back to a beautiful life outside of the hospital walls.<br /><br />When I was still working, I had tried to work hard to build a good corporate culture for my company. I see and really appreciate what Mr Anh and everyone have achieved here: clean and green environment, efficient management, friendly and warm manner from all doctors, nurses and even staffs. I haven't seen this in any other hospitals I've been.<br /><br />Dear Virginia, allow me to say I think you chose the right place to devote your mission in life, a place where your can help your patients in a healthy, wholehearted environment like the Traditional Medicine hospital. Words have a limit to say how grateful I am to what I have received from all of you. I hope to still keep contact with you so that I can learn from you, not just as a patient, but as a person - to live a fullest life and be a good person. I wish you all the happiness and good health to continue your journey to help out with the healthcare environment in our country. I believe kindness has a superpower!<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />Patient Ho Van Chinh<br /><br />Da Nang, 20/10/2022.</div>Steady Footstepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176965622114268599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280584903706114401.post-14905918117876180892022-02-27T15:06:00.093+07:002022-07-07T15:47:57.826+07:00The Greatest Honor of My Life <p><br />On Vietnamese Doctors' Day, in recognition of my years of volunteer work at the Traditional Medicine Hospital of <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.95); color: #222222; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.2px;">Đà Nẵng</span>, I was presented with a bronze portrait sculpture created by the artist <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.95); font-family: inherit;">Phạm Văn Hạng. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.95);">Phạm Văn Hạng</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.95); font-family: inherit;"> is well known as the designer of the famous <a href="https://www.treehugger.com/vietnams-fire-breathing-dragon-bridge-will-make-you-do-a-double-take-4862473" target="_blank">Dragon Bridge of </a></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.95); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><a href="https://www.treehugger.com/vietnams-fire-breathing-dragon-bridge-will-make-you-do-a-double-take-4862473" target="_blank">Đà Nẵng.</a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyJHSY7TwMeIciK8HdMHyxxBfnk1QzTFuIEh9m7sptlBPs0BDxuT5OfDCe8A__66BTGYfXMFGmUDCQACU2W6pEWri6LttO3nDfK0EOMOS_10won8mlfWsjmtSoC4hXM4CQMEl2GbbSRAPGc-Gs-GE9VrxMYzzFfln_K_VhZ0Y7xHijx9yIRgvtYaon/s4128/Bronze.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3096" data-original-width="4128" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyJHSY7TwMeIciK8HdMHyxxBfnk1QzTFuIEh9m7sptlBPs0BDxuT5OfDCe8A__66BTGYfXMFGmUDCQACU2W6pEWri6LttO3nDfK0EOMOS_10won8mlfWsjmtSoC4hXM4CQMEl2GbbSRAPGc-Gs-GE9VrxMYzzFfln_K_VhZ0Y7xHijx9yIRgvtYaon/w357-h268/Bronze.jpg" width="357" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Virginia with her translator/assistant <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.95); font-family: NotoSans-Regular; font-size: 17.6px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: start;">Nguyễn</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #434756; letter-spacing: 0.1px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hữu</span></span> Huy.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is a <span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303;">Tuổi Trẻ article about the event:</span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"><span style="color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://tuoitre.vn/nha-dieu-khac-pham-van-hang-tac-tuong-chuyen-gia-vat-ly-tri-lieu-nguoi-my-20220226205120925.htm">https://tuoitre.vn/nha-dieu-khac-pham-van-hang-tac-tuong-chuyen-gia-vat-ly-tri-lieu-nguoi-my-20220226205120925.htm</a></span></span></p>Steady Footstepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176965622114268599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280584903706114401.post-87975778351458607802021-12-25T14:31:00.062+07:002022-07-07T14:57:47.651+07:00Scenes from Our New Hospital<p style="text-align: center;">Physical rehabilitation in our big new gym</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDaKM05AYkeHEnAGnpiPDuWNa2no3SLxcRRDYuEpEFv43Lc7zNboz-BlutuTf-IMlotvltsn3Ad5UAJ4vfKZTJsvPpHZ_2wu0glECkSSulxN2DRS81TDSX3jJ5P3YbXfn8zlcINGGVNbFGWt_FwNSY73B-EH0N5CdOh7dkw9EU7Pn8LB_bFM-GcyMI/s4128/Lady%20marching.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3096" data-original-width="4128" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDaKM05AYkeHEnAGnpiPDuWNa2no3SLxcRRDYuEpEFv43Lc7zNboz-BlutuTf-IMlotvltsn3Ad5UAJ4vfKZTJsvPpHZ_2wu0glECkSSulxN2DRS81TDSX3jJ5P3YbXfn8zlcINGGVNbFGWt_FwNSY73B-EH0N5CdOh7dkw9EU7Pn8LB_bFM-GcyMI/s320/Lady%20marching.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Physical therapy at bedside</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC0gUGqIZBxxTuCfnP6mrKaUrOrVuVofaMlrhWFpuS9hexCm0w2nNgNVAxhUUQMxiez8o1SEL456vYdc9epcSc2YdjDtegg_fS0YFYpZYBV6o_aI5odNa8cG9Pjp7KGTKLLc-vvpbry-goJXlzAFOPaH06b08f1kHEg0QmPxJvjy_BGLLdibXvE9hT/s4000/Transfer%20training%20in%20pt.%20room.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1824" data-original-width="4000" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC0gUGqIZBxxTuCfnP6mrKaUrOrVuVofaMlrhWFpuS9hexCm0w2nNgNVAxhUUQMxiez8o1SEL456vYdc9epcSc2YdjDtegg_fS0YFYpZYBV6o_aI5odNa8cG9Pjp7KGTKLLc-vvpbry-goJXlzAFOPaH06b08f1kHEg0QmPxJvjy_BGLLdibXvE9hT/s320/Transfer%20training%20in%20pt.%20room.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Occupational Therapy</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFqnRu2oSoaJPa2gu7qX6GhSpCm_clWIQw85-Ox2J1iud-AwLENRO14CDJGruLl0P3QIuQ193XgtH0qV82FISlZYppBpTLVZOUxtRUm_QikaEf9LDIilCY0QuPp6EfQf_Dbi9nyM2d2t0hYM-Hg8ZMsjsLExQq9hSkLvhxwKw1danQgln2mAg_x2Mz/s3975/OT%20table%20activities.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1953" data-original-width="3975" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFqnRu2oSoaJPa2gu7qX6GhSpCm_clWIQw85-Ox2J1iud-AwLENRO14CDJGruLl0P3QIuQ193XgtH0qV82FISlZYppBpTLVZOUxtRUm_QikaEf9LDIilCY0QuPp6EfQf_Dbi9nyM2d2t0hYM-Hg8ZMsjsLExQq9hSkLvhxwKw1danQgln2mAg_x2Mz/s320/OT%20table%20activities.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Speech Therapy</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUoBr0k_mGK-9xGRkszF9T-vh_RRkDEFEWQkKciuVapPn8X5mTJsx1rPNc8a9cS8G4hhTtqqLD9ORAmT65dEWxMQZsLcqNlznUWM3PyLs_2kxI0sb6gN5gaEha501WFtNuYcwkK9ErJ6-_cBOelzgjk6-LrRtaA-kQ-3fVscbfT3isAOXnkQgyCRAw/s4000/HOA%20SPEECH%20THERAPY.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUoBr0k_mGK-9xGRkszF9T-vh_RRkDEFEWQkKciuVapPn8X5mTJsx1rPNc8a9cS8G4hhTtqqLD9ORAmT65dEWxMQZsLcqNlznUWM3PyLs_2kxI0sb6gN5gaEha501WFtNuYcwkK9ErJ6-_cBOelzgjk6-LrRtaA-kQ-3fVscbfT3isAOXnkQgyCRAw/s320/HOA%20SPEECH%20THERAPY.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<b><span style="font-size: small;">4 August 2019</span></b><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Here is a documentary produced and aired by the Vietnam television station VTV4 about our work in Vietnam:</span></i></div>
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<br />Steady Footstepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176965622114268599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280584903706114401.post-52337018723795234022019-07-30T19:08:00.000+07:002019-08-05T19:51:41.113+07:00Danang Today<h2 class="title" id="title">
Kind-hearted and dedicated US physiotherapist</h2>
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July 30, 2019, 11:51 [GMT+7]</div>
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<li> <img alt="Mrs Lockett enthusiastically offering a patient hand rehabilitation" height="640" src="https://baodanang.vn/dataimages/201907/original/images1522078_Nhung_tam_long_2.jpg" style="height: 743px; width: 620px;" width="534" /></li>
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With
over 40 years of experience, US physiotherapist Virginia Lockett, 66,
has given up her home and career in her homeland to realise her big
dream of helping patients who suffer from traumatic brain injury and
stroke in Da Nang. . .<br />
<a href="https://baodanang.vn/english/society/201907/kind-hearted-and-dedicated-us-physiotherapist-3229595/">https://baodanang.vn/english/society/201907/kind-hearted-and-dedicated-us-physiotherapist-3229595/</a>Steady Footstepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176965622114268599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280584903706114401.post-65905601481386149622019-07-14T19:31:00.000+07:002019-08-05T19:47:34.686+07:00American expat volunteer physiotherapist is saving lives in Vietnam <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7940234@N08/9634129797/in/dateposted-public/" nbsp="" title="Virginia with our Littlest Patient"><img alt="Virginia with our Littlest Patient" height="400" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/7369/9634129797_16f8bf3fd5_z.jpg" width="333" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br />
An American woman who sold her home 10 years ago and came to Vietnam to
volunteer as a fully qualified and experienced physiotherapist has now
been celebrated in a local TV documentary. . .<br />
<a href="https://www.expatsblog.com/news/1407177726/american-expat-physiotherapist-is-celebrated-in-vietnam-">https://www.expatsblog.com/news/1407177726/american-expat-physiotherapist-is-celebrated-in-vietnam-</a>Steady Footstepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176965622114268599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280584903706114401.post-61016172373777661532017-07-28T12:43:00.000+07:002017-07-28T18:57:09.493+07:00American Physical Therapist Volunteers To Save Lives In Việt NamJuly 13, 2017<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Virginia Lockett has
worked as a volunteer at Đà Nẵng Traditional Medicine Hospital for seven years.</span></div>
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Footsteps website (http://www.steadyfootsteps.org) , a non-profit organisation
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shared her desire to change <span style="background: white;">physiotherapy in
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is an American physical therapist with 40 years of experience. She and
her husband David, who is an artist, first came to Việt Nam in 1995 to adopt
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to Việt Nam in 2005 for a short-term volunteer project. She saw the
improvements in Vietnamese medical care and economy had made helping the
disabled more feasible. And yet many foreign-run assistance projects seemed to
be ineffective, due, in large measure, to minimal oversight by absentee
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2005 trip convinced the couple that the efforts of two middle-aged,
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quit their jobs, sold their home, founded Steady Footsteps, and moved to
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">An
extraordinary generosity</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Phạm
Phùng Chiến, former director of Đà Nẵng City’s Health Department recalls many
stories about Lockett. What is the most extraordinary about this woman, he
said, is that she considered saving patients’ lives the meaning of her life.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“In
2005, we were surprised when she came to see us to propose to work as a
volunteer. At that time, Vietnamese law didn’t require motorcycle riders to
wear helmets. But she bought 3,400 helmets to offer to employees working in the
medicine sector in the city. She said that the money to buy helmets is part of
the money from the sale of her house. We were deeply touched by her generosity.
As I observed her during her 10 years working for free to save Vietnamese
patients, she has extraordinary generosity,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“After
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correctly. Gradually, their normal activities are rehabilitated. In addition,
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<![endif]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nguyễn
Văn Ánh, the hospital’s director praised her experience and professionalism.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“She
breathed new life in terms of physiotherapy into our hospital. She has
significantly changed practice here. The prestige of the hospital has increased
and the number of patients treated by physiotherapy has increased in our
hospital. She helped rehabilitate 300 patients over her first three years at
our hospital. Since then, she also trained many young therapists,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lockett
recalls that when she started working at the Đà Nẵng Traditional Medicine
Hospital seven years ago, she had exactly one stroke patient.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The
other day, our staff treated 71! Obviously, I am not personally treating
each patient every day. The young Vietnamese physical therapists that I
have trained are doing this, with my occasional assistance. And yet the
results that we have been achieving with these patients are so good that we are
attracting new patients from all over central Việt Nam, primarily through
word-of-mouth from previous patients and their families. I think that
that is the big story here,” she said.</span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Changing
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One
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a student and his legs and arms became paralyzed.</span></div>
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helped him in physical rehabilitation. Seeing that he loved painting,
Lockett bought his paintings to encourage him. Then, he decided to become a
painter. His paintings have been now sold and displayed across the world.</span></div>
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I have today is down to Lockett and her husband. I respect them very much and
see them as part of my family,” Hiền said.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lockett
said she and her husband enjoy their life in Đà Nẵng that has become “their
home” and want to stay here for the rest of their lives.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “I
feel that the work that I do here is important and effective and that gives my
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<span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">— </span><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">VNS</span></b></div>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What is fifty years of suffering
worth?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forget about the millions of
gallons of toxic Agent Orange herbicide and the tons of explosives dropped on
Vietnam, a tiny country once considered by the World Bank to be one of the
poorest in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forget about the
millions of Vietnamese people killed in what Vietnamese call "The American
War." Here is the result of one careless and malicious kick by an American
soldier fifty years ago:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This is what results from 50 years of
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pressing down on a plastic stool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
even that was becoming impossible due to the worsening arthritis in her "good"
knee and in her arms, she came to the <a href="http://danangtraditionalmedicine.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Traditional Medicine Hospital of Da Nang</a>
in a desperate quest for help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this
point, her entire body appeared twisted from the decades of maladaptive
ambulation to which she had been reduced. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no quick fix available for her.</span></div>
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so we did two things:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>first we assigned
Vu, a young Vietnamese therapist who had recently completed a course in
Myofascial Release therapy conducted by Joni and Roger Edmonds at our hospital,
to help stretch out her tortured body so that she could sit and stand erect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And now, Vu and Hien, two of the young
therapists that I have been training for the past two years, are working with
this elderly woman in order to help her regain her ability to walk on two feet, with the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">support</span> of
her new brace and a walking frame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What was the cost to Steady Footsteps, our
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Steady Footstepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176965622114268599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280584903706114401.post-14858157684298535622015-09-13T20:12:00.000+07:002017-07-28T18:57:56.293+07:00Photos From Our New Out-Patient Facility<b><span class="post-footers">September 13, 2015</span></b><br />
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regain functional use of his hand and arm under the care of American and
Vietnamese therapists at the new out-patient facility of the
<a href="http://danangtraditionalmedicine.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Traditional Medicine Hospital of Da Nang</a>, located at 342 Phan Chau Trinh
Street. In addition to neuro-rehab and treatment of chronic and acute
pain, this facility also provides effective and affordable treatment of <a href="http://www.thanhniennews.com/health/da-nang-doctors-claim-to-have-homeopathic-cure-for-heroin-addiction-32388.html">heroin addiction</a> via acupuncture and other traditional remedies.</i></span></td></tr>
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right arm and his ability to balance on a two-wheeled vehicle with the
help of Thuy, an American-trained Vietnamese physiotherapist. More info
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<b><span class="post-footers"> </span></b><i>Tea shop at the new out-patient facility of the <a href="http://danangtraditionalmedicine.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Traditional Medicine Hopsital of Da Nang</a>, located at 342 Phan Chau Trinh Street features the
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<br />Steady Footstepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176965622114268599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280584903706114401.post-19300325942272406042015-04-14T19:57:00.000+07:002017-07-28T18:58:21.240+07:00Recipe for Success<b><span class="post-footers">April 14, 2015</span></b><br />
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I've been a physiotherapist in Vietnam, volunteering in four
different hospitals, a school for disabled kids, and out in the
community in Da Nang, Hoi An, and rural Quang Nam since 2005. And while
my first years here were certainly educational for me and afforded me
the opportunity to personally help countless disabled Vietnamese people,
I--like every other foreign therapist I have spoken with--was unable to
make any significant impact upon the way in which Vietnamese-trained
physiotherapists practice physical therapy. As you can see from earlier
blog posts, I had in fact given up on trying to change practice here
and instead, since 2010, been focused solely on providing hands-on rehab
for patients at the <a href="http://danangtraditionalmedicine.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Traditional Medicine Hospital of Da Nang</a>, a 140 bed
non-acute facility that had an abundance of stroke patients, but not
much to offer in terms of physiotherapy.<br />
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However, when Dr. Nguyen Van Anh became director of the facility a
year ago, everything changed. Not only did he immediately begin
renovating the sadly deteriorated hospital and grounds, he also
initiated several new projects, including a widely acclaimed <a href="http://www.thanhniennews.com/health/da-nang-doctors-claim-to-have-homeopathic-cure-for-heroin-addiction-32388.html">drug rehab </a>program.
And--of particular interest to me--he brought in a large number of
newly graduated Vietnamese therapists on a probationary basis and told
them that if they wanted to work in this hospital, they would be
required to follow and learn from me. This has made all the difference
in the world! Although neuro-rehabilitation is an especially
challenging aspect of physical therapy and although their earlier
training had left them without the ability to evaluate, plan and
implement effective treatment regimes for individual stroke patients,
our young therapists have been doing their very best under my guidance.
I would not say that they are "world class" therapists at this point,
but they are head and shoulders above any other therapists that I've
encountered in the ten years I've been volunteering in Vietnam. And
they continue to improve with each new patient that they treat. I am so
very proud of them!<br />
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Remarkably, word of mouth has already brought us an ever increasing
number of patients from the city of Da Nang itself and also from Hoi An,
Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, and Hue, as well as from the mountainous region
to the west and the off-shore islands of Cham and Ly Son. In fact, in
the days immediately following the Tet holiday this year, 45 stroke
patients were admitted to our service while other nearby rehab
facilities received but a few. Our patients now include not only those
who had been frustrated by ineffective rehab treatment they had received
elsewhere, but also new stroke patients, transfered to us directly
following their initial acute stay at the General Hospital of Da Nang.<br />
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Dr. Anh has a new vision, and I'd like to help him achieve that as well.
We would like to create an effective Early Intervention program for
children with cerebral palsy and developmental delays. Existing child
rehab programs in Da Nang attempt to deal piecemeal--with very minimal
success--with older children who have already developed contractures
and/or maladaptive movement patterns. We want to catch kids early and
work together with the child's family to guide them on a developmental
path which holds the best potential for their optimal development.
Thanks to our open-minded therapists and to our supportive
administration, we have a wonderful opportunity to do something great
for the disabled children of Da Nang and their families. Now all we
need is an experienced foreign paediatric physiotherapist to guide us in
our efforts. If you know of anyone who might be interested in such a
long-term volunteer opportunity, please send them our way!<br />
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Steady Footstepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176965622114268599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280584903706114401.post-45676011429422344192014-04-03T19:39:00.000+07:002017-07-28T18:58:39.457+07:00Slow and Steady Wins the Race<b><span class="post-footers">April 3, 2014</span></b><br />
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An unusual journey from the US to Vietnam took physiotherapist Virginia
Lockett and her artist husband David Lockett 11 years, but it is not one
that they regret one bit.<br />
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In 2006, they sold their house in America and moved for good to a
country they’d only visited twice earlier, the first time in 1995. <br />
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During the process of making this momentous decision, they’ve been
helped by their ability to change the lives of many disadvantaged
Vietnamese people for the better. <br />
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After settling down in the central city of Da Nang, Lockett started
volunteering as a physiotherapist at several local hospitals.<br />
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Meanwhile, Steady Footsteps, a non-profit organization that they’d
founded prior to their moving, has worked to provide walkers, canes and
pump-action carts for poor patients. Funds for this work have come from
their savings and donations from other individuals and charities. <br />
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Sometimes they provide more than just a piece of equipment. <br />
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For instance, a man who had his legs and part of his arm muscles
weakened by a spinal cord tumor was helped to open a small grocery shop
at home and given a used three-wheel motorbike. <br />
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They have also distributed 3,400 helmets for healthcare workers in Da
Nang, winning recognition and praise from the city’s Department of
Health. <br />
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<b>Fateful encounter</b> <br />
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Lockett said they first visited Vietnam to adopt children in 1995. <br />
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The trip not only helped them find a daughter and a son but also made
her, a professional trained to work with physically impaired people,
realize how “hopeless” the situation was for people with disabilities in
Vietnam. <br />
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Upon learning of her expertise, a man who assisted them with adoption
paperwork in the central resort town of Nha Trang took them to meet his
65-year-old father who had been bed-ridden for five years after a
traffic accident and a stroke. <br />
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The old man’s circumstances would have been much different had he been
in the US or Canada, where he would have undergone orthopedic surgery
for his injury soon after the accident, and walked again with assisting
devices and therapy in a few weeks, she said. <br />
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Therapy would have also helped him recover from the stroke, Lockett said. <br />
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It struck her then that “there must be thousands and thousands of
disabled Vietnamese people, spending their lives on floors and in beds,
simply because they lack the medical and rehabilitative care that we
take for granted in the west.”<br />
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“I didn’t know what I could do about it, but it haunted me.”<br />
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Ten years later, in response to a call from a North American non-profit
organization, Lockett flew to Da Nang as a volunteer clinical instructor
at the Da Nang Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Center. <br />
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For the second trip, she packed a variety of devices that she knew was
unavailable and unaffordable in Vietnam so that she could give them to
her future patients. Many of pieces of equipment were adjusted by her
husband, who was also travelling with her, to fit Vietnamese recipients.
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Lockett said the trip was long enough for her to realize why
physiotherapy in Vietnam was almost ineffective, even with the help of
experts from international NGOs.<br />
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Instead of being instructed to do functional activities like getting out
bed, patients were asked to perform “very simple passive exercises,”
she explained, adding assistive devices were also insufficient. <br />
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Helping some patients “truly” recover during the time she worked
convinced Lockett that she could use her skills and training to improve
the lives of many people with disabilities in Vietnam. <br />
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<b>Better work </b><br />
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Lockett said in an interview with Vietnam Television that in the US, a
physiotherapist can get tied up with lots of administrative tasks
including documentation and limitations related to insurance, but here
in Vietnam, she is free to do the best she can to help her patients
recover.<br />
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Her dedication has won her a lot of respect and admiration from her Vietnamese colleagues. <br />
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“Rain or shine, she always comes to work on time and is dedicated to
treating her patients,” said Nguyen Van Anh, director of <a href="http://danangtraditionalmedicine.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Da Nang Traditional Medicine Hospital</a>, where Lockett has worked for over the
past three years treated some 300 patients so far.<br />
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Dr. Nguyen Kim Dieu of hospital praised her treatment methods, saying
that depending on each patient’s condition, she would design suitable
exercises that can help the patient regain his or her ability to do
particular, practical tasks. <br />
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While there is an interpreter to help with the language barrier, Lockett
is also admired for her ability to communicate well with patients who
suffer speech and brain disorders caused by strokes or traumatic brain
injuries sustained in road accidents. <br />
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She first establishes eye contact with them, and then directly
demonstrates what they should do instead of explaining it verbally. <br />
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“I love this work and what I’m doing now is what I wanted to do when I
first came out of the physical therapy school,” Lockett said. <br />
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She said although it might seem “very noble and selfless” of them to
leave an American lifestyle for living and working as volunteers in
Vietnam, their life here is “so much less stressful and more meaningful”
than it was in the US. <br />
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<b>Artistic talents</b><br />
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The Locketts now also run the <a href="http://danangartists.com/">Da Nang Artists Company</a>,
which markets paintings and embroidery works made by people with
disabilities that the wife meets during her volunteering work. <br />
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Lockett said they were inspired to establish the company after meeting
Nguyen Tan Hien at the Da Nang Rehabilitation-Sanatorium Hospital in
2007. <br />
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Hien, who hails from the Central Highlands town of Buon Ma Thuot, had
been in the hospital for three years then. His legs and part of his arms
were paralyzed after he was hit by a bus. <br />
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The accident forced him to stop his university studies as a mathematics
major, but it did not prevent him from pursuing his dream of getting
into an art school and becoming a professional artist. <br />
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He asked Ho Viet Phuong, an architecture student who was paralyzed by a
spinal cord tumor, to teach him to draw during free time, so that he
could pass the school’s entrance tests. <br />
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However, to his dismay, Hien discovered that all drawing classes were on
the school’s second floor, meaning that he could not access them on his
wheelchair. <br />
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Lockett said her husband recognized Hien’s talent and told him that he
could become a real artist without going to school, because many famous
artists in the world were self-taught. <br />
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They asked him to draw pictures that they could use for printing
postcards and greeting cards for Steady Footsteps. He was offered US$10
for each picture, and in the end he earned $100 for works that he drew
with a pencil tied to his fingers with rubber bands. <br />
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Hien said that later, Lockett returned after a short visit to the US and told him two stories that he could illustrate for her. <br />
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“She kept encouraging me to continue drawing, and buying my paintings to
hang them in her house or give as gifts to others,” he said. <br />
<br />
With continuous support from the Locketts, Hien was slowly able to grow
from drawing with pencils to doing water colors and even acrylic
paintings. <br />
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The American couple helped market his paintings online and found buyers
from different parts of the world like Canada, Hong Kong and Singapore. <br />
<br />
Hien’s works have since been displayed at a couple of local and
international exhibitions. The appreciation and acceptance that he
received for his works have given the artist a lot of self-confidence
and belief. He is now happily married and works as a consultant for
other people with disabilities. <br />
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“Throughout my journey, Ms. Virginia and her husband are always by my
side. I respect them and love them as my family,” Hien said. <br />
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“We’ve helped and worked with lots of people since we were in Vietnam,
but Hien is very special to us,” Lockett told Vietnam Television. <br />
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“It’s a rare thing when you can have such a big impact on somebody’s life. It’s an honor.”Steady Footstepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176965622114268599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280584903706114401.post-53434230119384948472013-12-13T19:32:00.000+07:002017-07-28T18:58:56.803+07:00VIỆT NAM TRONG TIM TÔI (Vietnam in my Heart)<b><span class="post-footers">December 13, 2013</span></b><br />
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<b><span class="post-footers"></span></b>Well, it’s been over a year since my last post on the Steady Footsteps
blog, though there’s quite a bit of new material on my other blog, <a href="http://vietnamview.org/">A View from Vietnam</a>. We’re still in Da Nang and we’re still busily engaged in trying to make life better for disabled folks in Central Vietnam.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7940234@N08/6452084087/in/photostream">Trang</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7940234@N08/6452082485/in/photostream/">Huy</a>,
and I have been working together at the <a href="http://danangtraditionalmedicine.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Traditional Medicine Hospital of Da Nang</a> for more than a year now and hope to continue for the
foreseeable future. The majority of our hospital patients have
suffered strokes, though many at a younger age than I had been
accustomed to seeing in the States. (Our <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7940234@N08/6452103799/in/photostream/">most recent</a>
is only 17 years of age!) We’ve also worked with divers from Quang
Ngai who sustained spinal cord damage due to decompression sickness
(aka: “the bends”) and--of course--victims of traumatic brain injury
due to motorbike accidents.<br />
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Our work in the community has continued as well. In Dai Hiep, four year old <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7940234@N08/6452091809/in/photostream/">Phuoc</a>,
who has cerebral palsy, has started to speak and continues to try
valiantly to perfect his head control and gain functional use of his
arms. Tiny ten-year-old Nhon, who has what appears to be a pituitary
disorder, has transformed himself, with our help, from a weak and
listless waif into a dynamo on wheels! Farther afield in Quy Son, Trang
has been traveling an hour each way via motorbike to become, in
essence, a Guardian Angel for Hoa, a head-injured young woman with
coordination problems that I’ve been following intermittently for the
past four years. Under Trang’s care, Hoa has started speaking, doing
more and more activities of daily living independently in her home, and
even getting out into the community for the first time in four years on
the back of Trang’s three-wheeled motor bike.<br />
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Finally, our efforts to promote the financial success of disabled
artists of our acquaintance have led us to formalize a business called <a href="http://danangartists.com/">The Da Nang Artists Company</a>. (A Vietnamese language version of the site can be seen <a href="http://hoasidanang.blogspot.com/">here</a>.) Through our efforts, paintings by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7940234@N08/6452240421/in/photostream">Nguyen Tan Hien</a>,
our quadriplegic artist and friend, are now offered for sale not only
by us, but also via another on-line gallery based in the UAE: <a href="http://www.liborius-xu.com/index.php?option=com_artists&view=artists&Itemid=52">liborius-xu.com</a>
Hien’s proudest, however, of two very different accomplishments this
year. He and his wife Ly now have a baby son and a little one-bedroom
house of their very own!<br />
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I’ve been trying, in every way that I can think of, to share my
knowledge and love of physical therapy with young Vietnamese therapists
since I first started volunteering in Da Nang more than five years ago.
Regretfully, neither I nor any of the other American, Canadian, German,
Australian, or New Zealander therapists that I’ve encountered have had
any significant success in that regard. Even with our best efforts at
demonstrating and explaining, with the assistance of the best
translators that we can find, we still have not been able to light a
fire under these marginally trained so-called physical therapists. What
a pity. And what a puzzle, as well. <br />
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The question I’ve been wrestling with for the past year or so is: what
can I do in the face of this seemingly intractable obstacle to providing
decent rehabilitative care for the disabled folks that I encounter here
in Central Vietnam? The answer that I finally settled upon is to just
provide the care myself, with the help of some intelligent,
compassionate, bi-lingual young assistants.<br />
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So, for the past six months, Trang (a lovely young disabled woman who
initially signed on as our cook) and Huy (my trusty translator) have
been working directly with disabled kids out in the countryside, along
with me and an occasional foreign volunteer. And it’s been great! What
a difference to work alongside young people who are open to new ideas
and enthusiastic about helping disabled folks and their families have a
better life! Instead of merely talking about rehabilitation, we’re
doing it. (Following our lead, the <a href="http://www.kianh.org.uk/blog/" target="_blank">Kianh Foundation</a>
hired Trang’s little sister, newly graduated from high school, to work
alongside Danielle, their Aussie PT, and found her enthusiasm, diligence
and openness to new ideas a breath of fresh air after working for seven
years with typical Vietnamese therapists.)<br />
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Steady Footsteps has now initiated a new formal relationship with the
<a href="http://danangtraditionalmedicine.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Traditional Medicine Hospital of Da Nang </a>and an informal one with a
brand new school for disabled kids in Da Nang. Trang and Huy are
working alongside me with the blessings of the administration of both
facilities. What a relief to give up on “Talking the Talk” and finally
just focus on “Walking the Walk!”<br />
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Steady Footstepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176965622114268599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280584903706114401.post-13081138675816317282010-10-16T18:29:00.000+07:002016-08-14T19:04:11.779+07:00Tao's Story<b><span class="post-footers">October 16, 2010</span></b><br />
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When Tao showed up at the rehab hospital where I was volunteering
last year, he told me that he fell down frequently because of weakness
in his legs. From the doctors, I found out that Tao had an inoperable,
but slow growing, spinal cord tumor in his neck. Upon examination, I
determined that Tao’s legs were actually quite strong. His problem was
that he could not feel them. That’s why he often tripped and fell and
it was also why Tao was unable to travel by motorbike as nearly all of
us do in Vietnam. Not only could Tao not control a standard motorbike,
he was even afraid to ride on the back as he feared that his feet would
slip off the pegs and get caught in the rear wheel.<br />
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With that insight into Tao’s situation, I worked with him on
developing a safe and consistent gait pattern while cautioning him that
he would always have to pay close attention to his feet, especially when
walking on uneven surfaces. I also bought him a pair of shoes with
clearly defined heels and had him practice keeping his feet on the
pedals of a stationary bicycle. As a result, Tao was finally able to
travel on the back of a motorbike with confidence and so was able to
travel home on the weekends to be with his wife and three daughters.<br />
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Months later, I encountered Tao as he was vigorously pumping a
hand-powered cart up a blazing hot, steep stretch of road in the
countryside southwest of Da Nang. I cringed to watch him, covered in
sweat and with veins bulging on his forehead, struggle up that hill. I
knew that the spinal cord tumor in his neck not only blocked sensation
to his legs, but it also caused unremitting pain in Tao’s right arm. Tao’s
Herculean effort was surely exacerbating his arm pain. The sort of cart
that Tao was using is actually rather brilliantly designed. It needs
no fuel and moves as fast as a bicycle on level pavement. In fact,
Steady Footsteps has purchased <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7940234@N08/4345871098/">quite a few</a>
of them for impoverished disabled folks in the Nui Thanh district of
Quang Nam province. Unfortunately, Tao lives in an exceptionally hilly
area and was trying to eke out a living by selling newspapers and
lottery tickets at various coffee and noodle shops in that hilly region.
Things were not going well for him—he was racked by pain and he often
did not even break even financially on his daily newspaper sales. <br />
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We followed Tao to his home that day and listened to him talk about his
dream of having a little shop of his own. And we made that happen:
Steady Footsteps not only supplied Tao with initial merchandise and
start-up funds, we also provided him with a used three-wheel motor bike
and lessons in how to drive it. Tao’s life is still no bed of roses—his
arm still gives him fits and he’s nowhere close to middle-class—but
he’s got the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7940234@N08/5085571305/">shop of his dreams</a> and he’s able to provide for his family and that’s not bad.<br />
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Steady Footstepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176965622114268599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280584903706114401.post-90846482408942105342010-10-03T18:17:00.000+07:002016-06-03T15:33:49.242+07:00For Better or Worse, Till Death Do Us Part<b><span class="post-footers">October 3, 2010</span></b><br />
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We finally got the phone call we’d been anticipating for more than a
year and a half. Dung’s wife Linh has been admitted to the General
Hospital of Da Nang, having at last reconciled herself to the idea of
having a tube surgically placed through the wall of her abdomen to
prepare for a life-long regime of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peritoneal_dialysis">peritoneal dialysis</a> in the hope that she will be able to continue to raise her two young sons and care for her husband Dung.<br />
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I met Dung and Linh in 2008 at a rehab facility near my home in Da
Nang. There, amidst all the stroke and brain-injured patients, Dung was
a rarity. He was entirely coherent and independently ambulatory. He
had recently survived electrocution on a construction job and had only
one major handicap, but it was a big one. <br />
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He had no arms.<br />
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We do have a shop in Da Nang that makes artificial limbs. It’s
actually pretty darned good when it comes to making practical low-cost
artificial legs--in large measure because of the work done here during
the Vietnam/American War by the <a href="http://afsc.org/our-work">American Friends Service Committee</a>,
a Quaker organization. Unfortunately, no one in Da Nang—or in Hanoi,
for that matter—had the expertise or the components needed to make a
functional arm for Dung.<br />
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Dung soon left the rehab hospital, realizing that no one there was in a
position to help him, but we stayed in touch. For the next year, I
sought an answer to Dung’s dilemma. Finally, the Limb Center of
Wellington, New Zealand, came to Dung’s rescue. They not only donated
the necessary components to compensate for the restricted range of
motion in Dung’s left elbow (his right stump is too short to accommodate
a functional prosthetic arm), but they also sent a technician, Malte,
to help the local prosthetic technicians fabricate this unusual
prosthesis.<br />
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During the following year, Steady Footsteps staff and volunteers worked
with Dung to help him become as functionally independent as possible
with his new arm. We had a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7940234@N08/4345852396/">three-wheeled trike</a>
designed and fabricated for him so that he could become more mobile.
His cousin, who is a welder, designed a cup with a swivel grip made from
bullet casings so that he could enjoy drinking coffee with the friends
and neighbors who came to the little coffee shop that Dung and Linh
opened in the front room of his parents’ house. (Dung’s own house had
been demolished in an urban renewal project just before his accident and
the compensation money they received was eaten up by medical costs
after his accident.) As Dung regained the ability to feed, dress, and
bathe himself, he began to pull out the deep depression that had
enveloped him ever since his accident. Unfortunately, fate dealt this
family yet another cruel blow.<br />
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While Dung was learning to operate his new arm, Linh finally sought
medical treatment for the severe abdominal pain that she had been
suffering. Not surprisingly, considering the stress she had been under,
tests showed that she had a duodenal ulcer, for which she subsequently
received treatment. The surprising news, however, was that tests
inadvertently revealed that Linh had only one kidney. The devastating
news was that that one kidney was failing.<br />
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Linh has been wrestling with that news and its implications for over a
year. She’s been hospitalized numerous times since then for palliative
treatment and each time the doctors advise her to have surgery and get
started on regular dialysis, pointing out that, should she wait until
her kidney fails completely, she may very well not survive the surgery.
The surgery is more than Linh and Dung can afford, so Steady Footsteps
is paying for it. The monthly cost of the dialysis regime is also
beyond them and I don’t really see how, in good conscience, we could
back away from helping them with that as well.<br />
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What do you think? Could you help us out with this project? Of all
the adaptive devices that we could ever give Dung, what could we do that
would ever replace Linh?<br />
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Steady Footstepshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08176965622114268599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280584903706114401.post-90960707830675620092009-06-07T17:53:00.000+07:002016-06-03T15:33:20.664+07:00Re-Imagining Rehabilitation in Vietnam<b><span class="post-footers">June 7, 2009</span></b><br />
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While health care technology has rocketed into the 21st century in
Vietnam, with cardiac bypass surgery, total hip replacements and
in-vitro fertilization available now to those who can afford it,
physical rehabilitation remains mired somewhere in the 1950s. I,
myself, studied physical therapy a mere thirty-five years ago in the
States, but this observation was offered me by a New Zealander who
actually did become a therapist in1950: <br />
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“The situation you’re describing sounds just like New Zealand when I
first became a therapist. Don’t worry,” she said, “the Vietnamese will
gradually figure things out, just as we did over the past fifty years.”<br />
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That seems a rather depressing prospect for the 86 million people living in Vietnam today, don’t you think?<br />
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In America these days, the American Physical Therapy Association
advocates that new entrants to the profession of physical therapy be
educated at the doctoral level. Yet USAID-funded programs, such as
Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO), routinely send American and Canadian
volunteers to Vietnam for two to four weeks at a time to offer clinical
instruction to graduates of two-year PT tech schools. Even without
looking closely at the results of such a program—which I can assure you
are abysmal—could any reasonable person suppose that Vietnam will ever
“catch up” to the standards of rehabilitation offered elsewhere in the
world?<br />
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Vietnam and America’s histories are closely intertwined, in ways that
many Americans would prefer to overlook. Even as Vietnam emerges from
the grinding poverty and isolation of the bleak decades of US-imposed
embargo, parts of that shared history bequeath a twisted legacy to the
future.<br />
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Most significantly, Vietnam is isolated by language. When you
consider that most of the fluent English-speakers in Vietnam were
associated with the losing side of a long and bitter civil war, it’s not
surprising that they would subsequently be excluded from the
educational system and the government of Vietnam. Thus, there are very,
very few people in Vietnam today who are truly fluent in English—and
those who are most assuredly are not Vietnamese physical therapy
technicians! Translators--even those who are graduates of university
level programs--may have had little or no previous exposure to
foreigners. Even if a foreign volunteer should be lucky enough to be
assigned a translator who is actually capable of conversational English,
the sorts of things that physical therapists need to talk about are not
in the normal English language curriculum. Indeed, there is not even
Vietnamese vocabulary for much of what we need to say. How is it
reasonable to expect that anything productive will come from this doomed
attempt at communication?<br />
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Physical therapy in Vietnam is not a high-status occupation, nor is
it a highly paid one. Only the top 10% of Vietnamese high school
students are admitted to university, and these therapists were NOT in
that top 10%! Physical therapy training in Vietnam consists of learning
certain well-defined “techniques” and then practicing them under the
cursory supervision of similarly trained therapists. Evaluation and
treatment planning are NOT part of the curriculum. Neither, for that
matter, are transfer and gait training. And yet therapists emerge from
this minimal training program convinced that they know absolutely all
there is to know about physical therapy. They are invariably polite to
visiting foreign volunteer therapists, but foreign therapists who return
on subsequent visits to Vietnam are universally disappointed to note
that their educational efforts have had no enduring effect whatsoever.
It’s important to note that the physical therapy supervisors have had
the same minimal training as the rest of the therapists and that they
view their role as ensuring that PT continues to be practiced
“correctly.” The most promising Vietnamese physical therapy student I
ever worked with (the only one who ever “got” the idea of gait training)
told me--through a translator--the following:<br />
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“You know, I really like what you are trying to teach me. I can see
that it is much more effective than what we usually do here. But I have
to tell you that if I get a job in a Vietnamese hospital and I attempt
to do this, I will be corrected. And, if I continue to use your
techniques, I will be fired.”<br />
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That statement stunned me, as it is so hard to perceive what is
really going on when you stand outside of both the language and the
culture of a place. But now, two years later, I know that that physical
therapy student was telling me the truth. Even after two years of
working continuously at one facility, with one dedicated translator, I
cannot honestly say that I have been able to significantly change
practice there. On the other hand, I recently had the opportunity to
work alongside two volunteer occupational therapists in the
rehabilitation department of a different hospital, under the dynamic
leadership of two progressive, open-minded physicians and what we were
able to accomplish there in a mere two months was simply amazing. Those
two physicians had--many years ago--studied <i>about</i>
rehabilitation: one in Israel and the other in Philippines. They were
ready, willing and able to support and implement new ideas introduced by
foreign therapists. Had they actually had full training as therapists,
they would have implemented those changes themselves, over ten years
ago.<br />
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So here’s what those progressive MDs and I want to propose for the future of rehabilitation in Vietnam:<br />
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We believe that young, government-employed physicians with a special
interest in rehabilitation should be provided the opportunity to study
for an entry-level doctorate or masters degree in physical therapy in
America. (It goes without saying that they would first need to study
English for a year in America to enable them to get the best results
from their studies.) Right now, most Vietnamese hospitals are fully
staffed with minimally trained PT techs that are going to stay in those
positions until they retire, decades from now. It’s actually difficult
for new graduates to find a position. Trying to change practice through
the existing school system is futile in the short term as new PT
technicians would rank below everyone else in seniority and be unable to
“buck the system.” Fully trained, Vietnamese physical
therapist-physicians, however, would be able to step into any existing
physical therapy department in Vietnam with the knowledge, skills and
the authority to ensure the delivery of good quality rehabilitation.<br />
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There is an idea in America that any Vietnamese person would never
return to Vietnam, should they be permitted to enter the US. This is a
very simplistic view, which does not begin to take into account how much
life has changed for the better in Vietnam recently and how much more
comfortable it is to live within the circle formed by one’s own family,
culture and language. Government positions in Vietnam are highly sought
after, even considering the low salary levels of both Vietnamese PTs
and MDs. Employment by the state assures one of job security, health
care, four month paid maternity leave, disability pay and a full pension
after thirty years (at age 55 for women and at 60 for men).
Additionally, therapists and physicians routinely develop private
practices to supplement their government salary. I’ve lived in Vietnam
for the past three years and I wouldn’t care to live anywhere else. The
cost of living is low and the pace of life here is very, very pleasant.
It’s simply naïve to assume that any Vietnamese person would willingly
abandon such a life.<br />
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