133 – Heather Maillet, M.A., CCC-SLP – The First Wave: From a Frontline SLP in Seattle
Swallow Your Pride Podcast
Theresa Richard, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
4.8 • 899 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In episode 133, Heather Maillet takes us back to February, when patients from a SNF in Seattle first started arriving at her hospital with coronavirus symptoms.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Swallow Your Pride Podcast. I'm your host Teresa Richard. I'm a board |
| 0:06.0 | certified specialist in swallowing and swallowing disorders and I know firsthand |
| 0:10.4 | how much confusing and conflicting information there is out there about how we |
| 0:14.0 | assess and treat swallowing disorders. |
| 0:16.8 | This podcast is all about bringing everyone together, getting on the same page, being open to |
| 0:21.6 | new ideas, and using evidence-based treatment strategies for |
| 0:24.8 | our patients with dysphagia. So let's get into it. |
| 0:29.7 | Just a quick disclaimer that all statements and opinions expressed in this episode do not reflect on the organizations associated with the speakers and are their own opinions solely. |
| 0:45.0 | Good morning Heather. Good morning, Heather. Thank you so much for joining me. |
| 0:47.0 | You're welcome. |
| 0:48.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:49.0 | Yeah, so tell the people a little bit about who you are. |
| 0:52.0 | My name is Heather Myier. I am an acute |
| 0:54.6 | care speech pathologist at Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland, Washington. Not |
| 1:00.2 | new to speech therapy, I practiced for about 10 years down in the Bay Area and recently moved home from my |
| 1:06.2 | childhood up to my childhood home here in the Seattle area to practice. So I'm kind of reentering the medical world up here and and you know walked into the |
| 1:19.8 | ICU at the end of February and found myself surrounded by a lot of quarantine looking suits and saying what's going on around here. |
| 1:31.0 | Wow, wow, oh my goodness. |
| 1:33.0 | Yeah, so obviously you guys, I'm sure where Heather said she is and obviously everybody at this point is probably |
| 1:38.7 | like, oh my God, that's where all this craziness started. |
| 1:42.4 | So I'd love if you could kind of just paint a picture of what |
| 1:45.8 | happened for you guys because I think we're all watching what happened with you guys up there and you |
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