We do make a difference.
This story comes about with abit of help from my grandads god ol' friend Slim Dusty. hence the title. Recently on spinal there was an old aboriginal man who as well as his paralysis had suffered head injury due to chronic alcoholism. he was brought down to physio every day even though he didnt really want and never said anything, just sat there, did abit on the arm ergonmeter and some arm weight, just sat there with a blank look on his face. there was a particular physio ho was working with him and over the 4 weeks he was there I saw him turn into a happy little chappy who was keen to come to physio, and he even brought down his slim dusty cd's which we pt on for him and he loved. I just wtched this physio and it wasnt what she did with him it was how she was with him. In the end on our final week he got discharged. We all thought he was this shy little man but there was a whole gym full of physio's, patients and their families and he rounded everyone uo and said he wanted to say a speech. he thanked everyone for what they had done for him and said he was really happy with his physio sessions. I was in complete shock he had had the guts to say that, and by doing what he did he made our day as much as we made his.
he was the most gorgeous little man
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I think thats a great post and sometimes you can have patients that are really shy the first few treatments but when they become confident can be real characters. Its patients like these that make you really enjoy your work!!
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