Casey O'Conor is a 31 year old who lives in East Rockford and is a physical therapist.
Date of birth: September 9th
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Bisexual
Biography:
By all accounts, Casey grew up a normal girl. And she was a normal girl, nothing abnormal about her. But that didn’t come quite as easily as it did for other kids around her. Casey suffered a stroke during her birth that left her with impaired vision as well as impaired movement in her left arm and hand. As a small child, it was always frustrating for her to watch how easily things that seemed so challenging for her were to her peers, but one thing that always stood out to her parents was there was never a ‘why me?’ attitude to the girl, even at a young age. Casey quickly took to the things that would be most challenging for her in athletics and while she was able to play a good variety of them growing up, the strength in her arm forced many of them to fall to the wayside as she got older. Still, she met these challenges with a smile and a pivot, taking on competitive running and soccer as her mainstays.
It was never that Casey had this overarching ideal in her head to look to the brightside, it was that she was raised in a loving household, yes, incredibly. But also one that instilled ideals in her that wouldn’t allow her to look for pity or handouts. The way things were was just the way things were, and the attitude of her and her family was always just to make do with what you have and work hard to improve it. And work hard she did. At physical therapy, in the classrooms, on the fields. Everywhere. Not for any sort of praise and not always toward some defined goal, but for the simple fact that it was what she was supposed to do.
The hard work did get her places; a college degree half paid for by the school on an athletic scholarship, something no one would have dreamed to be a reality when she was in the NICU after birth. And it wasn’t decided until she was in college, reflecting on her years and finally beginning to realize all of the work she had put in to get there that she realized what she wanted to do: physical therapy. To become one of the faces in a room with someone struggling, encouraging them and showing them the way they can improve on whatever situation they’re in. Because that was what was so important to her. So, it was three years after graduation that Casey had compounded her degree with a doctorate in physical therapy and began the work.
Her first few years on the job she hopped around from one thing to another, enjoying seeing what it was like in all aspects of PT, but in the back of her mind she knew where her heart laid and it was with babies. It was with a desire to give the youngest of patients a chance to make the most of their lives straight from whatever injury life dealt to them so early on.
Personality:
Casey isn’t the type to depend on anyone else for anything. Independent, at times to a fault, Casey isn’t the type to look back and reflect on things that went wrong or things she accomplished, not one to kick or pity herself, and not one to pat herself on the back, she tries to just live. Whatever that means; chasing after something or enjoying the moment. To Casey, life isn’t that serious. She’s one to laugh through the good and bad times, to make herself the butt end of the joke for the greater good. It’s not something she sees in herself, but she has trouble opening up. There’s no conscious fear, but just an uncomfortability about the more serious things in life