Wet on wet. Wet on dry. Dry brushing. Scraping with a blade. Sand pebbling, and even introducing a little rock salt into the paints. That’s what was happening in artist Lee Hayden’s watercolor class with Lake Terrace residents this winter. “It’s so rewarding to introduce the residents’ minds to something new. That simple act…
“They really know what they’re doing here,” Shorehaven rehabilitation graduate Jo Rotondi smiled. “When you come in you’re a stranger. When you leave, you’ve become family.” Rotondi recently spent four months at the health care facility, “developing a success formula for getting back home again.” “Everyone, from the therapists to the CNA’s, the nurses, activity…
Stephanie C. Brand thought the world was ending for her when she had to enter rehabilitation after a brief stint in the hospital. Two weeks later, she discovered it was just beginning. “I didn’t want to go, I didn’t want to go. I wanted to go home. I was scared to death,” Brand said, looking…