Currently my right heel is swollen as I have a stress tear
on my Achilles. So far no real problem except tennis is not really on the
menu. I have six physio sessions booked with a company in MK, and each time I
have been I have seen someone different. The first physio was brilliant. She
told me how to take care of my heel with simple and easy to understand
instructions. I really thought I was on the road to a quick recovery.
The second time was an utter disaster. The man who saw me
didn’t know what he was doing at all. He couldn’t answer my queries about what
exercises to do. He tried to tape up my foot and got more of the binding stuck
to his fingers than on my heel. By the time I got home, the tape came off with
my sock! The worst of it was that I felt no confidence in him at all. He could
have been seconded from a supermarket checkout for all the knowledge of
physiology he displayed.
Then by the third session the overall manager of the company
dealt with me. Apparently, she had had complaints about the physio who I had visited
the second time. She had travelled up from Essex to cover the sessions in MK
until she found a replacement. She said I wouldn’t need to pay for the previous
session, and she would add another one to make seven sessions in all.
Now this brings me to the most recent of my visits. The latest
physio was confident, knowledgeable – I hope(?) but her English was so awful
she called my toes -fingers! I picked up on that quite quickly. She told me she
didn’t like “tapping” – I repeated, “taping” with rising intonation as a
question. She said “tapping” again… I just hope I understood her. She also said
my heel was “swolled”. Probably with everything else she said, I would have
given her IELTS 5. I was genuinely challenged on the comprehension front. Errrr.
Oh, how I miss the “torture-ess”. She was my physio in Singapore,
and she was amazing. When I visited, I knew it would hurt but I also knew it
would do me good. I genuinely think that there should be a minimum standard for
physios to practice over here in the UK. They should have sufficient standard
English and know what they are doing. My experience of physios in this country
has been patchy to say the least. God help us… this is 21st century
Britain.
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A wet world! |
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My very comfortable son! |
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Taking Lucky out - glorious sunshine |
On other matters, I had a visit from Sammi and Lucky. Always lovely to have them round. Sammi arrived and instantly wanted to sleep – such good company to have. Danielle brought Ezra-Mae round this week too. My little grand daughter – three years old - walked through the front door, took her shoes off and then shoo-ed her Mum away. She wanted Nana all to herself. It’s nice to know that my family can feel comfortable and settle in my little place!