Physiotherapy

[poliphilo]

Ailz's physio says the reason physios are better at giving injections than doctors is that doctors in med school practice on oranges whereas physios practise on one another and themselves.

Ouch.

I don't like needles. I trace this back to an incident in boyhood when we took my baby sister to the clinic to have a jab and at the very last moment my mother sprang it on me that I was having one too.  I have vivid memories of weeping bitterly and having to be dragged out from under a table. 

She meant well.

This morning, while Ailz was getting seen to, I sat  in the waiting room and read a couple of nearly-up-to-date women's magazines. I value these opportunities to mug up on celebrity culture. Today, for instance, I learned about Kerry Catona's cocaine habit and how she's fallen out with her mum and finally discovered just who this Lindsay Lohan character is.

Comments

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

My mother did the same thing! We'd go for a "drive" and suddenly be in front of the doctor's office!

I, too, have a memory of hanging onto a table leg in the waiting room, being horribly embarrassed but also terrified of getting a shot.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Well I never!

My mother only did it the once. She still apologises for the lapse.

It may well be that...

[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

"the reason physios are better at giving injections" is that they are infinitely better versed on exactly where all those nasty nerves are located.

Re: It may well be that...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought of that. It certainly makes sense.

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

My mother NEVER lied to us about that kind of thing. And she used to yell at the nurses, when my brother went in the hospital (as he did quite often, because of the hemophilia). They'd tell him, "It's a shot. It doesn't hurt." And Mom would say "DON'T lie to him. It's a shot. I'll hurt for a minute or so but then it will be over."

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Your mother had the right idea. I think one should be absolutely straight with children.

[momof2girls.livejournal.com]

It's true that physicians practice on oranges in medical schoool, but then I think they graduate to practicing on each other, too.

Aren't doctors' offices a great place to catch up on trashy magazines? I like to say that the reason my kids are in therapy is so I can read "People" Magazine in the waiting room!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There's no reason on earth why anyone should be interested in people like Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton and yet, and yet...

I wish I understood it.

[momof2girls.livejournal.com]

It's like a car crash - you drive by, and you know you shouldn't look, but you just can't help yourself!

[sina-says.livejournal.com]

my mother was/is an x-ray tech in an emergency room of a hospital. she lets the nurses in training practice on her. she used to come home looking like a junkie.

me? i hyperventilate and pass out.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Oh no- I couldn't be doing with that. I turn my head when people are shown getting injections on TV.