Once upon a time, there lived a woman named Jessie Thigpen. Back in 2010-2018, she had a nice, loveable life where she spent some time with friends such as Emily Smith, Katherine Stein, and Meredith Reda.
One day; on September 3, 2018; she was riding a scooter up a hill and wanting to study the scenery around it. She was riding up the hill at 10 miles per hour. But a 15-year-old guy was driving a truck at 90 miles per hour down the same hill and he hit Jessie very hard, and then she was taken to a hospital. During this period, a man named Kerry Lowell replaced Jessie in the gang of friends.
For the first month or so, she was in either the hospital or the nearby rehab facility, and people were focusing on making her body better before she can go home. By the middle of October, she could finally be back home and she let her friends know this.
After coming home from the hospital, she spent some helping her friends stay caught up with what happened, and by late November, her friends could contact her for free except by e-mail.
For Christmas time, Jessie was showing some people about some of the simplest occupation therapy she could do, including squeezing putties and lifting weights up to 6 pounds. On New Years Day 2019, she finally got to e-mail her friends once again.
Starting then, every Tuesday and Thursday Jessie took occupational therapy sessions in a special building called "The OT Tower". She knew it had lots of floors, and that each floor had a different occupation associated with it.
Jessie tried her best with all the events, and even wanted to make sure her friends knew them.
The floor list starts as follows:
- Putting shoes on
- Buttoning buttons
- Handwriting
- Lifting your fingers so that they can get straighter
- Picking up small things and putting them in jars
- Typing at a minimum speed of 25 words per minute
- Pulling rubber bands (green or purple)
- Typing at a minimum speed of 30 words per minute
- Stacking cups
- Twisting Velcro knobs
- Any skill is okay with the restriction that one of your hands must have a force of at least 30 pounds.
- Playing with pegs.
- Taking lids off of plastic containers.
- Moving your wrists.
- Pulling rubber bands (yellow or red)
- Playing with pegs at a fast speed.
- Turning levers of an exercise machine.
- Driving
On March 4, 2019, Emily Smith (one of Jessie's friends) was wanting to have a funeral drill; an event where she and a population that knows her practice with what to do during a funeral. She was inviting many people to practice with what to do if her mother Lee Smith dies. (No, this is just a practice event; this doesn't mean her mother actually died.) This funeral practice was in Kansas.
Jessie herself would have gone if it weren't for the accident that started her need to practice therapy. (The highest floor of the OT Tower she had been to as of this point was the tenth floor.) But it was a problem, so in her place was her twin brother Timothy Thigpen. Timothy and Emily had a nice time together, the nicest time they were ever together. Timothy's wife Kimberly and son Timothy Junior also went. Emily and Kimberly had the same birthday, only in different years (Kimberly is 4 years younger than Emily.)
On March 20, Jessie (the highest known floor was the twelfth at this point) was starting a new skill; this was getting in and out of a car. She did a good job with that; this was the first step in being able to drive herself. Stay tuned for info on more steps.
One June 12, Jessie finally reached the 18th floor, and she was very happy. She drove a couple of miles and many of her friends were very happy.
However, she didn't yet drive her own car. But on July 23, she started to drive her own car, and in August she took some friends with her to Baskin-Robbins to celebrate.