James’s Ataxia Blog

Falling for the Doctors

March 24th, 2009

Well, Jim got their attention today.  He was in physical therapy doing his routine on the stairs, surrounded by three doctors, two physical therapists and three translators when he got distracted by one of the doctors, lost his balance and fell.  Boy did everyone come to life.  The doctors are all four feet nothing and they are trying to lift this 6’5″ guy off the floor.  I had to make them get away from him so he could roll onto his stomach, get his knees under him and then we can lift him up.  They hustled him right to his room and put a heat lamp on his fanny.  They want to take xrays – all we need is another broken hip.  We are quite certain that it is just bruised.  Fortunately he had one hand on a railing and didn’t go flat out on his head like he usually does.  All of the buildings here are solid concrete.  They walls, the floors, the stairs.  Everything is poured so there is no soft place to land.

Jim is feeling good.  After his treatment his neck is usually stiff and the back of his upper legs are sore for a couple of days.  The doctors say that is normal.

Roy hooked us up to Skype while he was here and I talked to him on it today.  He was in Tucson.  Could hear him like he was standing next to me.  Aren’t these things wonderful?

It is raining here today and for us, very cold.  It is 39 degrees.  It has been windy for a couple of days.  The wind and the rain don’t have much influence on the polution.  Will be great to breath some clean air again.

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