This is How You Buckeye
Meet Audra Marie O'Dair. Like a lot of other babies, Audra must temporarily wear a corrective helmet – the process is called cranial orthosis – to treat plagiocephaly, or "head flattening" that will sometimes occur due to the soft skulls we all have when we start life.
The corrective helmets have been in use since 1979 and have an established track record of safely and successfully treating plagiocephaly. Thousands of babies each year will wear the helmets for a few months to start their lives, but only Audra is earning helmet stickers for her progress.
[Thanks to Katie for sending this in.]
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As someone who works in the medical field with medical devices, seeing things like this makes me appreciate my career and what I've learned as student even more. Using technologies to improve the lives of humans and having a helping hand in devices like this is a very rewarding experience for both the user and developer. Plagiocephaly is a medical condition I haven't heard of but is very interesting to know they have helmets like this for stabilization during the bone growth phase in development. I'll make sure to forward this on to my friend at Georgia Tech who is in grad school for orthotics. Those Buckeye stickers are cool too! Thanks for sharing staff.
Ohio State's band SLAUGHTERED Michigan's band. If this were a football game, it would have been Florida State vs. Savannah State. - SB Nation following OSU vs. UM 2012
Best thing I will see all day.
Lol, cute kiddo.
Little cutie and love the Buckeye stickers! I noticed she is also wearing an amber necklace. My little guy wore one through the whole teething process and seemed to help.
Swing and a miss for the accidental down vote... Especially, for a topic like this
Tom Crean listens to Nickelback...
That's why we're here: to put a lot more upvotes to cancel it out!
"I like to kick Michigan's ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of gum."
Smile promised, smile achieved.
Like a BOSS!!!!
Seriously, what a cute little badass.
I wouldn't cheer for Michigan if they were playing the Taliban.
Awesome start to my day ! Go Audra and Go Bucks !
Beautiful.
*via Internet, necessitated cheek pinch*
Tom Crean listens to Nickelback...
Day = brightened.
I wouldn't cheer for Michigan if they were playing the Taliban.
#love
#EARNED
Go Audra! Go Bucks!
Keep Calm and Ignore the Trolls.
Have you earned your buckeye today?
Audra has!
This is awesome!
"Have you earned your buckeye today?"
Didn't take her long to lose her black stripe either. Audra sure seems to be way ahead of most Buckeye newcomers already.
That expression cracks me up.
Pretty awesome. Lil' cutie.
Those who stay will be CHAMPIONS!
~Bo Schembechler
I think my head exploded from cuteness.
"if irony were made of strawberries, we' d all be drinking a lot of smoothies right now."
The personification of BUCKEYE TOUGH! GO BUCKS!
I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.
That Is Great!! Made My Day!!
You have to hate losing more than you love winning! GO BUCKS!!
That breaks my heart, what a cutie!
Run_Fido's favorite word is strawman.
We know of a guy who would probably tell us all --
"Did you beat Audra's desire to progress today? Did you work as hard as her to get better today?" And if the answer is yes, good, get up tomorrow and continue it and get better. If the answer is no, then you have to ask yourself, Why not? Why not?"
Wonderful story and I wish the best to Audra and family. God Bless
"It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close."
Jesse Owens
Ugh... I am so sorry. My dominant arm is in a cast after surgery and I accidentally DV'd ya. This I my 2nd time with a down vote via accident on this thread. My prayers
Tom Crean listens to Nickelback...
I gotcha
I will give him an upvote to help you. No worries. Get well.
It's all good friend:) and get well soon
"It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close."
Jesse Owens
Adorable. Big smiles to start the day!
Its 11:09 and this little cutie already made my day :)
Sorry Urban, Woody is still my favorite
Thank you...needed that smile
cute kid!
"You win with people." - Woody Hayes
Perfect and thanks for sharing! Now if they could only make the helmet silver...
Beautiful little angel.
vacuuming sucks
Good stuff! Thank you 11w staff for keeping us grounded and reminding us what is most important.
Yep - that's beautiful for sure! Great post - thanks!
The world is full of kings & queens who'll blind your eyes & steal your dreams - it's heaven & hell - Ronnie James Dio.
Adorable! Those helmet stickers just melted my heart.
Btdubs, the condition is usually not serious, and the orthosis is mostly for cosmetic reasons, since nobody wants a deformed head. With protracted labor from the mom, could be worse, but looks like our little trooper will be just fine. :)
"There is a force that makes us all brothers, no one goes his way alone." --Woody Hayes
Tear.
"Because the rules won't let you go for three." - Woody Hayes
THE Ohio State University
Every Buckeye is in your corner, Audra! Best wishes!