dialogue on a physio appointment
Physio: "Hello, so how are you getting on?"
Me: "Really bad, my back's getting worse."
Physio: "Oh dear, what sort of activity is it affecting?"
Me: "I can't do more than half an hour on the computer without being in agony."
Physio: "And how long do you stay on the computer?"
Me: Long silence... "What?"
Physio: "How long do you stay on the computer after it begins to hurt?"
Me: "Do you mean how long in terms of time?"
Physio: "Yes."
Me: "About, oooh, it depends about.... amdsn."
Physio: "What?"
Me: "About, erm, an hour or two. Sometimes a bit longer."
Physio: "You stay on even after it starts to hurt?"
Me: "Very occasionally."
Physio: "How often is very occasionally?"
Me: "About, every day."
Physio: "Every day? Even though it puts you in agony?"
Me: "I have a blog, and I read a lot of blogs."
Physio: "What's a blog?"
Me: "A web-log, a log on the web, I've got a politicalish log web."
Physio: "Do you think doing hours of something a day that puts you in agony is a good idea?"
Me: "In what context?"
Physio: "In context of the fact you have painful muscular-skeletal condition?"
Me: "S'pose not."
Physio: "Do you think it might be a good idea that you take a break from the computer?"
Me: "Take a break? As in, not go on it?"
Physio: "Yes, leave off it completely for about a week?"
Me: "Leave off it for a week? But why?"
Physio: "Because it's putting you in agony?"
Me: Long silence... "Can't you just give me pills or inject me with something?"
Physio: "No, listen, you don't have to give it up forever, just take a break."
Me: Long silence.... "Okay."
Physio: "Good. Now you will do it won't you?"
Me: "Yes."
Physio: "You won't go home and go straight onto your web-log will you?"
Me: "No."
Physio: "Promise?"
Me: "Yep!"
13 comments:
The blog is king. I am just as bad. I will get home from work at 10 tonight, and be up for work about 430 tomorrow morning. Those are just the hours right now... wil i find a half hour to check a couple of blogs? Mais bien sur!
And you tell me off for doing too much! Scribbles, take your own advice. Whilst the web is a much more boring place without you (you too cbc!), I'm sure we can cope with less posts if it means you are in a lot less pain.
I second that sassy!
Helen, I don't even have a blog but I do read them, and I do have back pain. I could not have kept it up except that I found a piece of furniture at a store called Levenger, which sells products for readers/writers. I have an adjustable wooden tray which hangs over my bedside like a goose neck lamp, attached to a wooden stand. It is pretty and easy to move out of the way, and it allows me to read and write while lying in bed. It can be bought online.
I hope your health clears up soon.
Something that would enable me to write without leaving my bed sounds a damn fine piece of equipment. At the moment I sit on the sofa-bed, with the lap-top on my lap, propped up by pillows, and this did me well for a while, but now my neck seems to be complaining that it has to hold up my head, which is a damn cheek because most people's necks seem to manage that job, which is after all one of its main functions, without getting so arsey.
I'm better today anyway, thank you everybody.
Get a slave! That will allow you to write from the comfort of your bed, whilst someone else types your thoughts for you! Can that husband of yours not type?!!
Glad you're feeling well. You free for beer in about 3 weeks? 3 weeks. How scary! see you soon!
I'll have to ask my neck if it's up for going for a beer, but tipping lots of beer down it might actually cheer the f*cker up.
This is getting surreal.
Very funny post...
Thank you - I'm hoping my physio therapist never googles me!
I think the word is an amanuensis. You need one of them. Monk's are good at that.
Strike that rogue apostrophe. My apologies.
I've just looked up the meaning of amanuensis, and I think you could be right. Anyone know where I can get a monk?
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