Monday 8 September 2014

Day 251 - And so to the Physio - Required 690250, Achieved 696762

So, to the physio, not my usual physio I might add, to take a look into what’s caused this latest round of pain.  It’s not often I have things to say about those who are better qualified than me, but today, well, today proved to be the exception.

My regular Physio, Steve Bailey (Crigglestone Yorkshire if anyone needs a man more skilled at fixing bodies than the surgeons in Chiba), told me the first time he saw me that if he couldn’t find out what was wrong in the first visit and have me most of the way to recovery by the third, he was doing something wrong.  Then he told me the way that most physio’s work, which is by not carrying out a physical examination first and then getting stuck straight in with pressing down on your back, even if the back isn’t the problem to be fixed...

No physical examination and sitting on the bed this afternoon, after having requested acupuncture (Because I know it works), I find myself being told that it’s a problem with my back and that it could be a long time before this gets fixed...

Then they tell me to get some really strong medication to help sort out the pain, because it will take a long time...

Emphasis on the Long time here...

So, I got up after the treatment, and whereas when I go to Steve, I always leave feeling at least a little better, I got up from this one in agony, barely made it to the car, and am currently on the aforementioned strong medication to try and keep from howling at the moon.

Suffice it to say they will have no more trade from this man...

So, to the doctors tomorrow to seek stronger medication and then to Steve next week when he returns from Holiday, the moral of the story here is that sometimes you should just go to the doctors rather than toughing it out and making it worse, and coming from me, that’s something...


This is John Dodd in the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire on a cocktail of things that have too many syllables to pronounce, and goodnight England, wherever you are...