PT Shape

Paslay! I agree, all the PT's I have met stay in really good shape. Guess there is no going down hill for us!!

All good here

I'm at Cooper and Bush Outpatient in Benbrook. People it takes me 8 minutes to get there, 10 with traffic! It is a much needed change in commuting for me. My CI, Van Bush, rocks my socks off. He is a great teacher and fits my learning style fabulously, although I get quizzed a lot, only some of which I have an acceptable answer. I work 11 hours Mon - Thurs and get Fridays off. We see a little bit of everything, most of which is pre-surgery, so we get to play the "where is the pain really coming from" game more than "here's your protocol" game, which is challenging, but fun. Learning a ton and getting a workout....does anyone else feel like they need to get into PT shape?!

Paslay

haha no he didn't think I was her twin but I almost told him the story of how we all dressed up like the faculty...but this man is a retired pediatrician and he talks non-stop....i literally can not get two words in before he starts another story, so I decided not to get him started lol

You're treating Joney Pony's patient?!  Sweet!  Does he/she think you're her twin??  I miss that Joney Pony, shoot, I miss all our bosses.  I'm sad Charlene is leaving!!  And that Billy Crawford...who IS that man?!  He is such an odd cat!  lol  But it's all good.  Nate, you have to expound upon this sexual harassment you are being subjected to!  lol  you can't just lay the hook and leave!!  Speaking of getting some action on the job though, we have this adorable (and when I say adorable, I mean I have tried on multiple occasions to smuggle this kid out under my scrubs and give Baby Mexico a last name of Booth) kid, and when you transfer him from his wheelchair to the mat, he either kisses your cheek or macks on your neck.  lol  He's pretty cute.  On that note I will also add that so far, my CI and I have had only one patient whose first language is English.  She is a native speaker, so she gets a lot of the Spanish speaking eval/treats, which is intimidating and a blessing at the same time.  Hope everyone had a sensational first week! Keep on bloggin biatches!!  lol j/k  Hugs and wubs!

Oh the vestibular....

So I'm at Matrix Rehab in Plano and really enjoying it. My CI, Judy is really patient with me and she is doing a great job with easing me into treating by myself. Basically, each day she sees every type of ortho issue we have ever learned about in PT school which makes reviewing difficult after work. If that isn't overwhelming enough, the icing on the cake is that she likes to do hand therapy, TMJ and vestibular of all things! I must say that I did get kinda giddy when I saw a patient have nystagmus during the Dix Hallpike. Just fyi, the BBQ Spit is really called the Epley Maneuver. Yeah, all I could remember was that we called it the BBQ spit.... Another PT that works there is a former student of UTSW and actually verbalized to me that Blau was his favorite teacher! Tid bits of random info I know but that's what I got so far....and J Can, I am the massage queen these days. Girl, it wears me out!

One week down

Congrats on everyones first week down. Presbyterian (inpatient) has been such an awesome experience thus far. My CI lets me pick the patients that we work with/eval. based on what patient population I want....so I pick all the neuro/oncology patients cuz the post-op ortho patients are so boring (no offense to all you ortho people)! My muscles are getting a workout having to support stroke patients weight all day but it is worth it because I love it!! Anyway, Monday my CI is cutting the umbilical cord and I am in charge of treating/evaluations of all the patients...however I won't ever get total independence because Medicare (which is all our patients) won't pay unless a licensed therapist is present at all times. :(. Also, the Presby clinic is amazing...we have a car inside the clinic, a kitchen, a bedroom, and a mock grocery store!! Good luck to you all and I look forward to reading your blogs. Oh I almost forgot, Guess who's pt. I am working with..............give up.........Joney Pony's!!

Brianne

things have been going pretty good over at methodist as well. had a quasi-awkward moment the other day though. so on Day 2 my CI takes me to this lunchtime meeting with her. the meeting is just to talk about how all the pts are doing to make sure everyone is on the same page. attending were all the physicians, nurses, PTs, OTs, and social workers for the unit. probably about 20+ people in the room. we were going through all the pts one by one and am just sitting there silent. so we came to this one pt that i had done some exercises with that morning. me thinking, that someone else other than me had to have seen her the last 2 days was planning on just sitting there silent. so the Dr. says "okay how is Miss Smith doing?" ..............................silence................................. "anyone?"..................................silence.........................
my CI nudged me and i finally came out with something that i hoped made sense (not quite sure if it did) regardless, it was fairly awkward. oh yea i also am getting sexually harassed by an 89 year old woman on a daily basis.