Wednesday, November 08, 2006

What a waste of time!

Well so much for physio! Got a phone call Monday morning, 20 mins before my appointment, telling me the physio I was booked in to see had called in sick and my appoinment was cancelled. I explained that I was in a lot of pain and my husband had even taken time off work to take me. They called me back 5 mins later and said that they had worked some things around and to still come up.

Got to the hospital, was taken in to a general like ward with about 8 beds with curtains around them, kind of looked like a mini emergency ward. A lady came in, asked me questions about my pain, got me to do some leg lifts to see how far I could raise my legs before the pain set in, got me to stand and bend over, told me to lay down and went and got me a heat pack.

When she came back she spoke to me and told me about 2 exercises I could do at home on my hands and knees to ease the pain a little, gave me a pregnancy support belt and then told me to just keep what I have already been doing by using hot showers and panadol for pain relief and to sleep on my side with a pillow between my knees. Thats it, goodbye, have a nice day!

I was there for a whole 15 mins. It was like they had just got an assistant to one of the physios to deal with me because, as she said to me, I only had 8 days to go anyhow.

So here I am, still in pain and just grinning and bearing it. Am doing very little around the house, which is helping my back, but geez it looks like a pigsty. I so want to get the vaccum out but just moving it into the room hurts, let alone actually using it.

Bubs is really active at the moment, especially at night. As soon as I go to bed it starts rolling and kicking and stretching, no joke for hours. The last three nights I have had to get back up and have not got to sleep until 2am, 1am and 1am again last night. I am soooo tired. My mum says that maybe it is trying to get into position.

So that's my whinge for today. I am sorry it is not more of a happy, positive post, but that requires energy and at 8.15am after just 6 hours sleep I am still to find some. Hopefully tonight will be a better night and tomorrow will be a better day.
Posted by Kim :: 8:12 AM :: 1 Comments:

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