Nail Time With Ginny

I've been talking about Ginny with you guys a lot lately and she's been on my mind a lot lately too. If you haven't heard, here is some information about her. My major in college is Therapeutic Recreation - fun stuff that is specifically designed and chosen for each patient to be therapeutic and work on things they need help with. I work with Ginny every Saturday. I call myself her caretaker, and not her babysitter, because it's so much more than that. She is 12 years old and has multiple severe disabilities. She doesn't speak, and eats only soft foods mostly through her G-tube. She sure loves frozen yogurt though; tried that the other day ;). With all these awful disabilities that she has, Ginny still has so much potential for happiness in her life. She doesn't respond to me very often, or seem to enjoy doing much, but nail polish is something she really loves.

I just got my Bundle Monster plates and was excited to play with them. Ginny's mother doesn't like her nails to be polished so that she can inspect them for bruises since Ginny does not express pain. I had the fab idea to take them with me, along with Zoya Areej, and Orly SecNDry and stamp her nails! That way you can still see through it really easily, and she gets to have her nails all pretty too. I used BM16 on her left hand for a full nail design, but decided it was too messy since she wouldn't let me push back her cuticles or rub off the nail polish that got on her skin. I moved to butterflies from the BM4 plate for the right hand and that was just perfect!

Here she is holding them out for me while I dry them haha! How cute is that? She has some issues, but every time I see her I am so surprised and amazed at how much she does understand and care about. I'm just holding her hand up here, but I said I was going to dry her nails and started blowing, and she knew what to do!

I said "show me your pretty nails!" Here Megan lol! She's holding my hands here :). I really don't get much affection from her, so this is a big deal! I was strapping her into her wheel chair for a meal one time, so my face was already close to her head. I kissed her on the top of the head and she pushed me away lol. Moody pre-teens!

Here she is all polished and reading her new favorite book. There is a pony on the front and you can feel its hair :D. The cutest part of the whole thing was that she really liked the stamping. She seemed so distracted in between nails, but when I would be a moment from being ready to stamp her nail I'd say "here comes the butterfly" and she'd hold out her hand for me. She liked it!

I tried to make her sign for you guys, but she wasn't that interested, so I initiated by moving her hand closer to her face and I asked her to say "thank you". She blows a kiss :D! Ginny says thank you ladies for loving her pretty nails!!

See Ginny's other polish adventures: glitter toes, Christmas toes, and her final pedi you voted on!