February 26, 2011
This time my appointment is in the morning, since the weekend schedule is abbreviated. I get there at 10:45 am, and it is packed!!! No doctor in sight, but seeing the number of people waiting around, I am pretty confident he will be coming in. When the magnet machine is ready, I get on it for the requisite 10 minutes. Then the routine follows, with the electromagnet for my knee, then the strengthening exercises.
When I get to see the doctor, he just adds a one kilogram weight for my leg exercises, and tells me that's it. No needles today? No, he says, that's for tomorrow. He asks me how I'm feeling. I tell him the swelling is down somewhat and that the leg is feeling stronger. I also tell him that I'm giving it as much rest as possible, so I don't really know if it's healing yet.
Then I want to ask him if he thinks I'm progressing, if he thinks my ACL has started healing, but he looks like he's preoccupied. Perhaps just busy with so many patients to see today. I guess I'll try to get some sign of what he thinks is going on when I come back for my needles tomorrow. I wonder where they're going to be applied. Another finger? In the legs, perhaps? I've a feeling it's fingers and more fingers.
I can't wait to be back for Sunday.
This time my appointment is in the morning, since the weekend schedule is abbreviated. I get there at 10:45 am, and it is packed!!! No doctor in sight, but seeing the number of people waiting around, I am pretty confident he will be coming in. When the magnet machine is ready, I get on it for the requisite 10 minutes. Then the routine follows, with the electromagnet for my knee, then the strengthening exercises.
When I get to see the doctor, he just adds a one kilogram weight for my leg exercises, and tells me that's it. No needles today? No, he says, that's for tomorrow. He asks me how I'm feeling. I tell him the swelling is down somewhat and that the leg is feeling stronger. I also tell him that I'm giving it as much rest as possible, so I don't really know if it's healing yet.
Then I want to ask him if he thinks I'm progressing, if he thinks my ACL has started healing, but he looks like he's preoccupied. Perhaps just busy with so many patients to see today. I guess I'll try to get some sign of what he thinks is going on when I come back for my needles tomorrow. I wonder where they're going to be applied. Another finger? In the legs, perhaps? I've a feeling it's fingers and more fingers.
I can't wait to be back for Sunday.
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