Activities (Ryan’s Friend)
- Putting on Shirt
- Takes longer but able to do it
- Tying Shoes
- Unable to tie with one hand
- Contacts
- Difficult but possible
- Unable to do it in a reasonable amount of time
Activities (Ryan)
- Brush Teeth
- Putting toothpaste involves setting down the toothbrush
- No problems otherwise
- Putting on Clothes
- More difficult but do-able
- Opening dresser drawers angled and gets stuck
- Contacts
- Unable to keep eyes open and put in contact with one hand
- May be possible with practice
Emily’s Friend
- getting shirt over head was harder, but putting arm in sleeve wasn’t bad
- buttons were again trickier–pants and shirts
- tying shoes was impossible
Emily
- difficult to blowdry hair–had to take many breaks to brush out knots
- straightening hair was more difficult because couldn’t really do it piece by piece had to just lean over and try to do large layers
- ponytail was impossible
- opening makeup tubes, bottles, etc was difficult
- putting on eyeliner difficult–typically pull eyelid downwards with one hand like when putting in contacts
- clasping jewelry
Matt
- Putting on Shirt / Clothes
- Doable with extra time
- Socks were annoying to put on
- Buttoning pants were hard
- Tying Shoes
- Was not able to do
- Brushing teeth
- Was not too hard, maybe took a little longer to do
- Showering
- Annoying to dry off with one hand but possible with longer time
Matt’s Friend
- Putting on Shirt
- Takes more than double the amount of time but definitely still doable
- Tying Shoes
- Extremely hard … eventually just used slip-ons
- Hair / Makeup
- Straightening hair was a challenge but putting on lipstick was not as hard as expected
Kimberly
- Washing Hands
- Difficult to wash the back of the hand
- Getting Dressed
- Not as difficult as expected, would have been painful and more difficult if the collar bone was broken
- Most difficult due to inability to fully dry hair, specifically bra clasp
- Putting in contacts
- Very difficult to open the foil package
- Difficult to apply solution while holding the contact
- Relatively easy to put the contact in the eye, however would have given up previously under regular circumstances
- Showering
- Proportioning soap was difficult
- Drying off was difficult, specifically drying hair
- Could not shave under arms
- Hair
- Unable to perform ponytail