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earlymorningechoesUnder a cut for discussion of mild medical issues and anger with a mildly neglectful provider and a racist one.
I've had issues with my shoulder for about five and half or six years now, and started having issues with my hips earlier in the year. As such, I decided I wanted to go to physical therapy, because I've had some luck with it before. I've been going since March, and I'm just...really not impressed with this at all.
It's common consensus that my medical group/insurance is terrible with chronic conditions (my mental health shenanigans can attest to that, which included my therapist sending the same form three times, including on Thanksgiving morning a few years ago, because they kept losing it), and that you have to be very pushy to get anything useful out of it. I'm not good at being pushy with strangers, and I seem to get the short end of the stick a lot at medical appointments. They've pushed me off on physical therapy residents, who rotate between locations, which means I end up having to get used to a new physical therapist every few months.
The new one last week? Didn't listen to me at all when I explained that I was having new pain in my feet, and just completely ignored it. I ended up going to urgent care today, and guess what? I have plantar fasciitis. On top of everything else. Which I could've known a week ago, if my physical therapist had just listened to me, instead of going on and on about how since I've been in therapy so long my tissues are surely healed (which matters So Much when I'm still in so much pain I can't wear a messenger bag!).
And also the guy at urgent care, who was quick and able to tell me what was wrong, was super racist, apparently feeling comfortable being so because I'm white and speak English? I froze and ended up just not saying anything, which I am working on being better about, but I'm thinking I'm going to email the urgent care center to let them know that that was not okay.
Basically it's been a few weeks of a lot of mild medical nonsense, and I'm one of the least likely people to experience all this and still do, and I'm just so frustrated on everyone's behalf who is receiving even poorer care for various reasons.
I've had issues with my shoulder for about five and half or six years now, and started having issues with my hips earlier in the year. As such, I decided I wanted to go to physical therapy, because I've had some luck with it before. I've been going since March, and I'm just...really not impressed with this at all.
It's common consensus that my medical group/insurance is terrible with chronic conditions (my mental health shenanigans can attest to that, which included my therapist sending the same form three times, including on Thanksgiving morning a few years ago, because they kept losing it), and that you have to be very pushy to get anything useful out of it. I'm not good at being pushy with strangers, and I seem to get the short end of the stick a lot at medical appointments. They've pushed me off on physical therapy residents, who rotate between locations, which means I end up having to get used to a new physical therapist every few months.
The new one last week? Didn't listen to me at all when I explained that I was having new pain in my feet, and just completely ignored it. I ended up going to urgent care today, and guess what? I have plantar fasciitis. On top of everything else. Which I could've known a week ago, if my physical therapist had just listened to me, instead of going on and on about how since I've been in therapy so long my tissues are surely healed (which matters So Much when I'm still in so much pain I can't wear a messenger bag!).
And also the guy at urgent care, who was quick and able to tell me what was wrong, was super racist, apparently feeling comfortable being so because I'm white and speak English? I froze and ended up just not saying anything, which I am working on being better about, but I'm thinking I'm going to email the urgent care center to let them know that that was not okay.
Basically it's been a few weeks of a lot of mild medical nonsense, and I'm one of the least likely people to experience all this and still do, and I'm just so frustrated on everyone's behalf who is receiving even poorer care for various reasons.
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