WTRC Magazine January 2019
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INSIDE A LOVE LETTER FOR YOUR FAMILY KAYSIE SMASHEY CLAYTON NANCE & MORE ISSUE NO. 5 • JANUARY, 2019 LEADERSHIP LETTER BY STEVE MARTIN, PRESIDENT & CEO I hope patients, we always enjoy bringing you for everyone and I would encourage you everyone the human side of the Center and those to come on out or tune in and help had a very who support us. support the West Texas Rehab Center Merry and our patients. Please see Christmas I am excited to bring you something in information contained herein or visit spent with this issue that is of such signi"cant WestTexasRehab.org for anything friends and importance it can hardly be overstated: Telethon related. family. information about wills. If you and This is the time of year we re!ect on the I want to make certain our We look forward to an previous year and count the many ways wishes are carried out should outstanding year and hope we have been blessed. It is also a time of anything happen to us or our you will always choose the anticipation as we begin another amazing spouse, then having and/or West Texas Rehab Center for year here at the West Texas Rehabilitation updating our wills is of paramou66nt care, should you ever need the Center. Our 66th year promises to importance. My wife and I recently absolute best in rehabilitation or provide challenges, but with our incredible updated our will and it is eye opening to hospice services. donors, sponsors, volunteers and referral learn about what can happen to your sources partnering with our skilled property and other assets without a We wish you and your family a blessed clinicians we will no doubt witness miracles, current will. It is also equally rewarding and healthy 2019. big and small, as more great things to learn how you cannot only protect happen every day at West Texas Rehab. your assets, but also the many unique All the best. ways you can help support your favorite I hope you enjoy reading the Rehab causes for many years to come. Round Up as much as we enjoy bringing it to you. Whether learning about our January 19th kicks off our fundraising programs, such as Hospice of San with Rehab 2019, our 49th annual VIEW REHAB Angelo, our wonderful volunteers, our Telethon. The Telethon will take place at TELETHON & AUCTION referral sources and physician community, the Abilene Convention Center from INFO ON PAGES 15 & 21 our amazing clinicians, or our incredible 7:00pm – 12:00am. There is something TABLE of CONTENTS ©2019 2 Leadership Letter 13 Volunteer Spotlight Publisher West Texas Rehabilitation Center 3 Foundation Spotlight 15 Rehab Telethon 2019 WestTexasRehab.org 5 Patient Spotlight 19 Calendar of Events 7 Donor Spotlight 21 Board of Directors 8 Hospice Spotlight 21 Rehab Telethon 2019 Design & Layout 9 Physician Spotlight 23 Capital Wishlist Zoom Advertising & Design www.zoomtexas.com 11 Staff Spotlight 1 WTRC ROUND-UP Connect with West Texas Rehabilitation Center at WestTexasRehab.org 2 FOUNDATION SPOTLIGHT BY RODGER KENNEDY, SENIOR VP DEVELOPMENT until the time of death, it is you have written a carefully YOUR WILL; merely a plan on a piece of considered letter to your loved A LOVE LETTER FOR paper that you can change or ones may be the best reason to YOUR FAMILY destroy at any time. On your get it done. death, however, it becomes legally Wills are such important things. Most enforceable and very important in Many friends of the West Texas Rehab folks need to revise theirs, but don't want describing your wishes and assuring include a provision in their will for our to do it. Some folks know they need one, those wishes are carried out. work in rehabilitation and hospice but pretend they don't need it now. Still services. It is their way of showing their others dread thinking about it, yet With a will, you have shown your loved loved ones the great love they have for eventually "nd great satisfaction once ones left behind that you cared enough our work, and making special provisions the work has been done. You can live about your life and its accumulations, to assure their love is projected beyond without one, but you certainly don't and your relationship with the loved ones, their time. want to die without one. Yes, wills are to plan for an orderly transfer. Without strange things, but there is a much that last loved letter, you may leave a Do you need suggested language for brighter side. situation that creates unnecessary costs, your attorney? Do you need to talk delays, dif"culties and hard feelings. with someone about what you want to A will allows you to project love beyond While the horror stories of these messes accomplish? If we can help you project your time. Consider a will as your last may be ample enough to convince someone love beyond your time, give us a call at love letter. Consider it a personal letter to to have a will prepared, the simple 888-861-6385. As always, there's no those left behind of how you wish your satisfaction of knowing that charge or obligation. Just ask; we'll help. property to be disposed of at death. Up 3 WTRC ROUND-UP Connect with West Texas Rehabilitation Center at WestTexasRehab.org 4 PATIENT SPOTLIGHT KAYSIE SMASHEY thought two weeks off would help it reach her goal. And that he did able to wash their face, to playing in Kaysie was able to get her range of dominating on the world stage." heal…she was wrong! It ended up being and more! world championship events and competing motion back to 100%, which is very rare a six month process of letting her slightly at the highest level”, Matt says. for this amount of damage. Her strength This national win quali"ed Kaysie to torn rotator cuff tendon heal before she After four anchors were placed in her and !exibility were back! Seven months represent The United States of America would be able to compete again. So, she shoulder, her bicep tendon was cut and They weren’t joking when they said that later, it was "nally time to test her at the World Championships in October, decided to hang the racket up and get a re-attached to another part of her bone, shoulder surgery is the toughest! There shoulder in real competition. Her "rst 2018. And the rest is history…. A little “real job”. her rotator cuff tendon and labrum was a period of time during rehab that tennis tournament was National Clay over a year after surgery, she can call repaired, and the bone spur shaved off. she had to work her day around her Courts in Houston, Texas. Matt and herself a World Champion! “Matt Fast forward nine years. Kaysie started She was scared and doubtful that she rehab and do exercises "ve times a day Kaysie agreed that she would test it by provided me with the strength physically, to compete again on the “Young Senior would ever be able to play tennis again, for 20 minutes each time! Rehabilitation playing in the doubles draw, skipping mentally, and emotionally to play at the National Tour”. She was having fun was exhausting and painful at singles for this tournament. With much highest level again! I played more tennis competing again, traveling, and meeting times, but she was hoping it prayer and con"dence that she was ready, in two weeks at the world championship old and new friends, when she felt an would be worth it! Matt was she and her doubles partner took the at age 38 than I had in 15+ years, and awkward, but painful feeling in her bicep able to turn her moments of court….and they won it! She was a have never felt better! I am hitting the while competing in a national tournament frustration into positive thoughts, national champion again seven months tennis ball heavier, stronger, and more in 2015. She received treatments for making her see the light at the after a major surgery! precise than before! And I attribute that months with massages, stretching, and end of the tunnel. He gave her to a great surgeon and Matt Wymore! strengthening exercises, thinking it was a the con"dence that this was "Kasey has an extraordinary work ethic, I found the needle in the haystack in muscular strain. The pain would lessen, going to work and that she and coming back from an injury like hers Matt! Thank you!” but would always come back and at would feel better than she has takes a tremendous amount of effort and KAYSIE SMASHEY greater strength. Surgery was not an in years! dedication. Many athletes would have AT THE 2018 TENNIS WORLD option for her because she had heard had to give up playing at the highest Editor’s Note: Kaysie is a Realtor at CHAMPIONSHIPS IN horror stories of shoulders never “He encouraged me every day, level, due to how hard it is to rehab from ERA Newlin MIAMI, FLORIDA being “the same”. gave me con"dence that this this type of injury. Kasey never backed process would work, and made down from any challenge, and I was glad It was recommended for her to get in me laugh in moments that I the adult OT department had the Tennis is a sport that has provided touch with the ‘shoulder guru’, Matt wanted to cry”, says Kaysie. opportunity to help get her back to Kaysie Smashey so many opportunities Wymore at West Texas Rehab Center.