TOVA

Therapeutic Options of VA. I'll be teaching the class on Friday. Teaching with supervision/assistance. It'll kinda be like my final exam. TOVA is a very good philosophy/program for our field, mental retardation. Michael Partie is the creator and he draws from other programs. He does not seek to take credit. He makes sense. He spent years investigating abuse claims. The website is www.therops.com. Like all things I do, I'm not too good at the beginning - quite nervous, very easily frazzled, tend to blank out, freeze. But, I get better. And better, and better. And eventually I'm quite good, even respectable. Friday will be a not so good, an easily frazzled time, a time when I will blank out in front of the class and look like a scared puppy. No matter. It's my process. The good news is that Jim Hall will be there with me to fill in gaps, to save me, to clarify, so the people in the training will STILL get the necessary, very good, info that the class has for them. It's the next class for which your prayers are especially needed: the first class I teach completely on my own. That will be the one where we need your prayers to ensure that the class is not merely a growing experience for me but also, a positive learning experience for the attendants. I dread the thought of wasting their time, of not helping in this limited time we're given. This is such logical, humane, common sense, decent, ethical "stuff." It NEEDS to be out there.

Switching gears, do do do do, and now...for a cancer update... My dad started his chemo pills last night and has suffered NO nausea so far! Yay!

Be well all.

Thank you God.