What good is Voice Therapy if after a 40 minute session you ask your loved one what they did during the lesson and they can’t tell you? 🤪
It is a 45 minute drive one way for a 40 minute session and it takes awhile to get out the door. On the upside, I get 40 minutes to myself to run some super quick errands. I’m trying to decide if I should continue treatment. It doesn’t seem to be helping hubby’s speech at all, but it gets us both out of the house.
Does it cost you anything ? If not, I would say that getting out of the house is worth it while you still can. Go for it !!
I echo what Caro2132 says. Getting out and about is more important. My husband hated speech therapy and it was a chore trying to get him to do the exercises but it was done at home after a couple of sessions at the hospital. He did, however, love going out which we did several times a week until nearly the end. An effort but well worth it for both of us. I always asked him first though to get the thumbs up. Many happy memories made. At the beginning we would do the exercises in the car together. I was given a sheet of instructions. He wouldn’t do them at home. It then became such an effort I couldn’t keep putting him through something he hated and found so difficult doing. Going out though, he never tired of doing.
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I stopped speech and physical therapy a few years ago. Larry was getting nothing further out of either of them. I did sit in on both of them when he was more active and learned what he was suppose to do. That did help at home. I could prompt him. Up until the end he managed to get a thought verbalized. It sounded like another language. I had to figure out what he was saying.
We had access to a transit van to get to and from his sessions. The vans weren’t very reliable. The whole thing was an ordeal some days.
For your own health I would say stop if it isn’t useful any longer.
Think you answered your own question, you got 40 minutes of "me" time, you both got out, plus hubby got somebody's undivided attention and he would have used the muscles that these exercises are aimed at, for 40 minutes, which is better than not. Voice Therapy is not only for speech, it helps with swallowing as well, therefore vital. Shame nobody pushes that point across.
Carry on as long as you are able, though next time, plan something a little more exciting for yourself!
Lots of love
Anne
I would continue it until either the therapist says there's no more benefit to be had OR it becomes to much work getting your husband in & out of the vehicle safely. It is outside time and you do get a short break.
Ron
I agree totally with dads helper. Big hugs
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