Akua,
Finally you are getting the help you need and deserve. That is truly
wonderful. I have a feeling your life is about
to turn around and be much more pleasant for you. Wonderful!
Janice
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From: "Akua" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 2:17 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [TMIC] Dr. Visit Brings Hope
This is the first time in 4 years that I have spoken to a medical
professional who understood
everything, it seemed.
Let's begin with access: his nursed pushed me along the carpet ---
carpet is a shoulder buster and most folks just watch me ache and
struggle.
His office had a table that i could transfer to. First one I've seen in
four years.
He ordered tests no one had suggested:
bone density
pulmonary function
ultrasound of kidneys
because sitting in a char affects all of these
He's WORKING ON GETTING ME AN IN HOME THERAPIST
When i pulled out the STANDER literature he praised me-- yes that was
something he envisioned me using to prevent osteo_____ something.
I told him about the Flexiciser, he waited for me to follow him (uber
points for that, too, treating me
like I am a grown up who can go from point a to b) and showed me something
VERY similar,
a leg moving machine.
Then show me the heated hydro therapy pool that i could lowered into--- if
i could get transport there, which i can't with regularity SOOOOOOOOO he
said our goal is to get me driving
and help me transfer into my car....
Why don't all doctors have dentist chair type tables? In that they go low
enough for someone
from a wheelchair could possibly get on.
He said where we are is backwards and that he had brought that table with
him.
I think i love this guy-- who SHOOK MY HAND.
which just reminded me how i have not been treated well at all, but maybe
this time
I can really be on the road to help and healing.
He praised me and celebrated me saying he was delighted to have a patient
who was motivated.
He had read my file and knew i was a vegetarian and fodd conscious and so
understood my desire
to lose weight was about raising metabolism, not telling me about not
eating stuff that hasn't touched my lips for 40 years.
I left with 3 appointments already set up for me--- this has never
happened before....
my last blood test was at my OWN insistence. I think I've found a REAL
DOCTOR.
My bus driver, who I like a lot (but hadn't been getting because his firm
declined
medical rides for a time) knew this doctor and also praised him.
Akua
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