Yesterday was a very stressful day, but left me with an interesting story to share. My husband has been having stomach pains for a while, his primary doc, thought it was a prostate infection, and gave him some broad spectrum antibiotics, well it kept coming back, so after trying to get in to see a GI doc, not able to get an appt till late next week, he opted to go to ER. We were sitting there a long time, eventually they took him in, and long story short, he was admitted and has diverticulitis that they are treating with targeted antibiotics, hope he will be ok,. but...
The interesting part, related here is while they were doing traiage/intake on him, I was in the waiting room. A very nice lady, administrator of some sort, came over to me, offered me a coffee, (which Id never refuse) and we just got to talking about hospitals, etc. She was informing me something about this particular group, which I said I knew well, as I had brain surgery there in March, and am scheduled for a knee replacement in August. She said, oh, hope you do well. I had my knee replaced here about 8 months ago. So of course we had a long discussion about knee surgery. She was a few years older than me, but said she did well. BUT... the interesting part was, she said, (offering what she thought was considerate advice) , just make sure you PUSH thru the pain, and do ALL the exercises that PT tells you, it makes all the difference in the world for a better recovery. I told her about the Bonesmart, way and how painful PT does not really guaranty a better or less painful recovery, and that I plan to have either gentle PT on my terms, or none at all. She thought that was unwise, and we agreed to disagree. Just thought it was interesting how people react to something that seems so logical, but conventional ways are looked at as status quo and in no need of change, to some.
It did NOT change MY mind however
I will doing it the Bonesmart way, The End
New Zealand
He obviously didn't know how to do a TKR properly!
