Week 3 Day 2-3

I'm kinda getting into the swing of things now, and it really feels like I'm working full time!!! We're treated so well here, not like silly young students that get in the way, which is kind of what I was expecting. It all seems to work really well though because we're given so much independence which then leads to more and more confidence with patients, which I needed for today, because I had the foot lady back again...the one from Week 1.

It was her 2nd appointment, and I'd already established from her first appointement that she didn't believe in physio and she just wanted the pain to go away. I thought that we had come to an understanding at the end of the last treatment that it would take time and that she was willing to give it all a go, but I was wrong!!! She came in and absolutely blasted me. Well not me specifically but just let rip about everything her foot was stopping her from doing and that she couldn't wear shoes and that she just wanted he foot to be chopped off because it was annoying that much! I decided that I should just let it go and let her have her vent with a few "i completely understand" 's chucked in there. Once she had run out of things to complain about I just went through and explained all over again that it was going to take time and that having foot surgery was going to permanently change her foot and it would never be normal again but I would try to relieve her pain. She calmed down and listened to me and turned from my meanest pateint into one of the nicest! I took her HEP off WB to stop it from flaring up as WB irritated it. I hoped that if she had less pain during the week I would get her on my side and she would then be more open to treatemnt when I got her back to WB again. I truly do believe that there are some BIG yellow flags going on with her but I just can't work out what they are because it's not something as obvious as a workers comp claim.

Shes coming in next week so I'll have to see if my way of dealing with it worked...