To say yesterday could have gone better would be an understatement.
I got through to the clinic around 2.30pm, and was number 2 in the queue.
I only waited about 45min, and then the doc showed up, and i was seen straight away!
A good start i thought. Maybe this was my undoing?
He wrote me a prescription to get my xrays taken, and then i was wheeled through to where you need to pay for the xrays. Then it was off to the queue outside the radiology dept.
This was an hour and a half wait while everyone else went first.
When i finally got to the front of the queue, the woman shut the door, telling me to wait a while.
Half an hour later, with no one else even waiting to go in apart from me, she let me in.
I climbed onto the table where the xrays are taken, and proceeded to sit there for another 20min while other people that had started arriving in the queue, just walked in and chatted to her, then she disappeared off with them to do something else?!
Eventually it was my turn, and the xrays were taken.
As she was finishing up, my doc walked in and looked at the xrays with me.
It was a little strange because normally i would head back to his office to discuss things, and get my cast off on this particular visit...
So, we looked at the xrays very briefly, and i asked him if the gap between the bones on my repaired tibia was a good thing or not.
He replied that i should put full load bearing weight on my left leg so that the weight of my body on my leg pushes the bones together and they can mend properly!!
What???
I couldn't believe what he was telling me!
The specialist in SA had told me that i was to put very little weight on my left side, as my hip was still fragile and should be looked after.
Then he asked me to sit on the edge of the table with my legs dangling over the side, and told me that my exercises i have been doing are not good, as i should have a lot more range of motion in my left knee by now.
In the sitting position, he took one hand and held my quad firmly down on the table, and with his other hand he forcibly pushed my leg inwards, effectively bending my knee.
Obviously my knee did not have this much flex in it, and it hurt like hell, then he straightened it again, and then pushed back in again!
This carried on for about a full minute while i screamed in pain.
He told me that i should be doing proper physio every day.
Well, this is impossible as the physio is in La Romana, 40min from where i stay, and i cant afford to hire a car every day to drive thru for this! Plus find someone to drive me every day!
So i will have to try figure something out at home??
And that was it.
"Thank you for coming, and by the way, pop back on monday to pick up your xrays!"
Yeah, sure, i'll just hire a car, find someone to drive me and pop in again on monday?!!
So, 4.5 hours spent getting 4 xrays taken, and my cast stays on for another month!
I think that the cast didn't come off because he was in a hurry to get home, which is why he arrived early.
And is also why he came to see me in radiology.
So, thats great...another month of this damned cast!
Digna, my helper, is in La Romana today, and i have given her a shopping list to buy me some crutches, and also the pain meds that the doc prescribed to be taken before physio! This evening will be my first "proper" physio session then...
As far as the legal side of things goes, my lawyers spoke with the hospital, and then spoke to me after.
They have no idea whether the driver's wife has paid any money to anyone. They will be investigating this further in the next few days.
They have also advised me to pay the hospital some money. Even though my contract states i have 6 months to pay them even 1 cent, my lawyer said that our case would be better if i paid them something, and we got a signature from them with a receipt...
So, all in all, nothing really positive to take away from this visit.
Apparently my lawyers are having talks with the insurance company next week, but i was told last week, this was happening this week, so i wont hold my breath...
Hopefully the next few days will hold some sort of answers...??
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