Hi Everyone,
Today was a “Ginormous” milestone for Corey. She had her first shift at the candy store in 5 years.
Corey worked at the local candy store (Candy for All Occassions) before the car accident. Sue, the owner, was not only the key point person to organize the donated materials and contractors for our home renovation, but she also kept Corey’s name on her employee’s schedule knowing she would someday return to work.
I reached out to Sue a few months ago looking for alternate opportunities for Corey’s community integration and peer socialization. Sue’s response “ABSOLUTELY! just tell me how many days and times and we’ll have plenty of work for her to do”.
Corey would like to tell you about her first day back to work…
hi carepage readers this is corey,
my first shift was from 12-2pm.
1st of all i was very excited to be back.
2nd i walked from the parking lot with my cane and my mom right in to the candy store
today with BOTH hands i folded 100 truffle boxes. the memories of doing this came back like old times, so it was really not that hard. just a little difficult holding it with my left hand while my right hand was doing all the work folding.
next i stood up to put the dark chocolate truffles in each box. that part was really hard because i had to try my best not to give in and eat one. but i did my best and they are all there, i promise!
my last job was to dip ice cream pretzels. do you know what ice cream pretzels are? they are the little pretzels sticks dipped in chocolate that we give each person that orders a scoop of ice cream.
it was fun being in the candy store again. it smells like chocolate. that is a great smell, xoxo