Recreational Therapy Calendar for OCTOBER 12-17, 2009

Uploaded:  October 9, 2009
Running Time:  3:15

SCHMALFELDT:  From the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, this is your Recreation Therapy Update for the third week of October 2009.

Monday, October 12, is the Columbus Day Holiday.  But you can still discover ways to stay fit in the Patient Fitness Center on the 7th Floor Recreation Therapy Room.

On Tuesday, October 13, you can make Paper Mache pumpkins in the Creative Workshop, First Floor Recreation Therapy Clinic Room from 10 until noon.  From 10:45 until 11:45, enjoy the therapy dog visit and from 1 until 3, it's the Recreation and Leisure Connection, all in the First Floor Recreation Therapy Room.  And the Patient Fitness Center in the 7th Floor Recreation Therapy Exercise Room is open from 1 until 3 and 4:30 to 6:30.

You'll have three chances to exercise in the Patient Fitness Center on Wednesday, October 14.  From 10 until 11, then again from 1 until 3 and 4 until 6.  Have some electronic fun with Wii Motion Games in the First Floor Recreation Therapy Clinic Room from 2 until 4, and come back for Bingo at 6:30.

On Thursday, October 15, you can decorate a pumpkin in the Creative Workshop in the First Floor Recreation Therapy Clinic Room from 10 until noon.  The Patient Fitness Center is open on the 7th Floor Recreation Therapy Exercise Room from 10 until 11, then again from 1 until 3 and 4 until 6.  The Recreation and Leisure Connection will be doing business in the First Floor Recreation Therapy Clinic Room from 1 until 3, and you can venture out on a shopping trip to a local mall at 6:30.  Call 301-496-2233 by 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, and then meet in the First Floor North Lobby at 6:25 pm with your NIH Photo ID and a Doctor's pass.

On Friday, October 16, the Patient Fitness Center is open in the 7th Floor Recreation Therapy Exercise Room from 10 until 11.

And on Saturday, October 17, enjoy a trip to the Air and Space Museum at 1 p.m.  Call 301-496-2233 by 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, and then meet in the First Floor North Lobby at 12:55 pm with your NIH Photo ID and a Doctor's pass.  And the Patient Fitness Center is open in the 7th Floor Recreation Therapy Exercise Room from 2 until 3 p.m.

There's much to do and fun to be had, thanks to the crew at the NIH Clinical Center's Recreation Therapy Rehabilitation Medicine Department.  For more information, contact your unit Recreation Therapist or call 301- 496-4733.

From America's Clinical Hospital, I'm Bill Schmalfeldt and this has been your monthly Recreation Update from the NIH Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

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