Yayes!!...wait...oh...maybe just yay?
Went to my osteo. He decided that today would be the day that he would test my pain threshold, I think. I channeled Ray and Malcolm and all those other stoic boys I love.
It hurt a lot. He was doing deep-muscle work for both my back AND my shoulder. (I now have an interesting range of bruises on my back, bum, shoulder, hips and ribs)
I held my breath. I clenched my jaw. I squeezed my eyes closed. I gripped the edge of the bed in a white-knuckle manner. I shook. I sweated a lot. When I couldn't hold my breath anymore I panted a bit. Then held it again. All whilst he dug his elbows into various parts of me and tried to free me up a bit.
He had to pop my entire spine again (crunchycrunchy!) and do my neck where all my vertebrae glue together.
However, he did diagnose my shoulder FAR better than the NHS nurse. He took my arm and told me to make it go floppy, then waved it around a lot, squidging my shoulder area with his other hand.
I haven't injured my rotator cuff (YAY!) Neither have I strained my pec (yahboosux to you, NHS clinic) instead I have managed to tear and generally mangle all the good bits that hold my collar bone onto my shoulder joint (Hmm, not so yay). Hence why it hurts when I just let my arm hang to the side, why I still have full range movement in my shoulder and why it hurts so damn much to move anything (and why it makes such great crunching popping moving noises occasionally). He says to get more done if it's not better in a week. Anyways, that meant that my bicep and across my chest had gone rock hard to compensate and try to hold my joint together, which was pulling my back out of line again...rahrahrah.
In other news...work was useless today. Ph was off sick and I got another new contract - the problem with having so many on the go at once is that you HAVE to keep an encyclopaedic knowledge of every one of your jobs in your head until you KNOW it's been fitted correctly. I think I have five on right now, and if someone asks me 'what fixings do we need for ROK 7667?' I must know immediately. Likewise if someone asks what the internal diameter for 7892's top rail are, I must also know this...I must also know exactly what our stock of material is and be able to calculate if I'll have enough for all the jobs. (today I 'lost' 42 metres of 60.3dia 2mm 316) ...seriously couldn't fnd it anywhere. This was something of a disaster. SiBorg doesn't help these situations by marching off to the office, finding the delivery note and showing it to me "4 weeks ago it came in - someone signed off on it, if it didn't come in then you're in serious trouble" (Someone did sign off on it - quite possibly me, but we make sure we only sign the sheet we give the delivery driver so that our names never appear on the sheet that goes to our office - for exactly this reason! If you put your name to anything in our place then you've admitted liability for the stuff. (And I don't want liability for over £500 worth of stainless tube!) Anyway - I found it in the end, not in the usual rack. And had a moan about the fact that half the time we don't even see the delivery notes as we're not in the yard.
Gee, I'm ranty today. I'll shut up and leave now. If you made it this far, well done. Have a prize. Dunno what, award it to yourself.
It hurt a lot. He was doing deep-muscle work for both my back AND my shoulder. (I now have an interesting range of bruises on my back, bum, shoulder, hips and ribs)
I held my breath. I clenched my jaw. I squeezed my eyes closed. I gripped the edge of the bed in a white-knuckle manner. I shook. I sweated a lot. When I couldn't hold my breath anymore I panted a bit. Then held it again. All whilst he dug his elbows into various parts of me and tried to free me up a bit.
He had to pop my entire spine again (crunchycrunchy!) and do my neck where all my vertebrae glue together.
However, he did diagnose my shoulder FAR better than the NHS nurse. He took my arm and told me to make it go floppy, then waved it around a lot, squidging my shoulder area with his other hand.
I haven't injured my rotator cuff (YAY!) Neither have I strained my pec (yahboosux to you, NHS clinic) instead I have managed to tear and generally mangle all the good bits that hold my collar bone onto my shoulder joint (Hmm, not so yay). Hence why it hurts when I just let my arm hang to the side, why I still have full range movement in my shoulder and why it hurts so damn much to move anything (and why it makes such great crunching popping moving noises occasionally). He says to get more done if it's not better in a week. Anyways, that meant that my bicep and across my chest had gone rock hard to compensate and try to hold my joint together, which was pulling my back out of line again...rahrahrah.
In other news...work was useless today. Ph was off sick and I got another new contract - the problem with having so many on the go at once is that you HAVE to keep an encyclopaedic knowledge of every one of your jobs in your head until you KNOW it's been fitted correctly. I think I have five on right now, and if someone asks me 'what fixings do we need for ROK 7667?' I must know immediately. Likewise if someone asks what the internal diameter for 7892's top rail are, I must also know this...I must also know exactly what our stock of material is and be able to calculate if I'll have enough for all the jobs. (today I 'lost' 42 metres of 60.3dia 2mm 316) ...seriously couldn't fnd it anywhere. This was something of a disaster. SiBorg doesn't help these situations by marching off to the office, finding the delivery note and showing it to me "4 weeks ago it came in - someone signed off on it, if it didn't come in then you're in serious trouble" (Someone did sign off on it - quite possibly me, but we make sure we only sign the sheet we give the delivery driver so that our names never appear on the sheet that goes to our office - for exactly this reason! If you put your name to anything in our place then you've admitted liability for the stuff. (And I don't want liability for over £500 worth of stainless tube!) Anyway - I found it in the end, not in the usual rack. And had a moan about the fact that half the time we don't even see the delivery notes as we're not in the yard.
Gee, I'm ranty today. I'll shut up and leave now. If you made it this far, well done. Have a prize. Dunno what, award it to yourself.