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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Saskatchewan
Posts: 237
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Saskatchewan
Posts: 237
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This thought has occurred to me many times over the last four months.
Without this forum I would still be even further in the dark with respect to what I should be doing to recover because my medical care has been atrocious.
I cannot fathom earning a degree and emerging from schooling as clueless as the doctors I have met. It just floors me. The audacity to suggest every other possible cause under the sun for the symptoms when a patient presents with classic PCS... Maybe it's depression, maybe it's this, maybe that. Anything BUT the pink elephant in the room.
I have to fight the urge to say maybe it's a direct result of a brain injury, you absolute moron. I may not be firing on all cylinders right now but I can connect dots.
Anyway, I digress into ranting when this topic comes to mind. Any respect I once had for the medical field is down the tubes since injury. And the so called awesome socialist medical system we have in Canada really affects quality of medical care... With no motivation to keep patients, doctors get even lazier. If it can't be cured with antibiotics or blood thinners, they are truly stumped and apathetic to try harder. They have more than enough patients (easier to treat than us) to keep them feeling justified in their Lexus.
Any progress I will make in recovery will be due to my own strength and the information I've learned from here. So thanks everyone.
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About it: October 26, 2012 I fell backward on an icy parking lot at work. I was on Workers Comp for 9 months. My PCS : everyday headaches became once in a while headaches, and neck pain became manageable. Still have occasional mild dizziness, sometimes fullness in the ears, convergence insufficiency, sequencing struggles, short term memory struggles, verbal processing delays. CT neg, MRI neg. Therapies: prism glasses, acupuncture, icing neck, resting, supplementing, Elavil 20mg at bedtime.
NEW: Completed 12 weeks of physical therapy and returned to work full time.
About me: I'm a marketing manager, a mom with a blended family and wife to a heart attack survivor. I believe my brain injury taught me more than it cost me. I'm grateful to still be me!
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