"Just another manic Monday.....whooooa, whooooa..."

I forgot to mention how eventful my past 2 Mondays have been. First off, I had been at clinic for about an hour the first day when an 87 y.o. grandma decided to hurry back to her son in the waiting room so he could get back to work. In the process of rushing, she tripped, threw her cane at one of the techs, hit her head on the pedal of the bike, and landed on her shoulder. My CI ran out to her and she had an instantaneous bruise on her head from the bike, and when Christie grabbed her hand and the lady moved her arm, Christie felt her shoulder go back in place. I felt so bad for her; she was in the middle of the floor and just kept saying "my arm really hurts." We got ice for her and got her comfortable, and I should mention that Christie called 911 shortly after making sure she was stable. A very eventful morning. Turns out she fractured her humerus and will be back to PT to treat that....we'll see how that goes.

So to add to the drama, today a pt came in that comes to PT from jail (don't ask me how that works bc I dunno). Apparently he's had 3 lumbar spine surgeries and was progressing well, but when he came in today he looked like he was in a lot of pain. He couldn't even lie 90-90 for heat or anything and he had some numbness in his L LE, so the PTA advised him to go to the emergency room since we couldn't do anything for him today based on his sxs, but he wants to wait the hour for his sister to get there so she can take him. So I'm workin w/other pts and walkin back to the office to grab a file, when I see him waving at me in the corner of my eye from a room in the back (he's not my pt so I was wondering what was up). I went back there and the poor guy was leaning to the right, sweating perfusely, and was like "I messed myself and I can't control it, will you get Karen?" I was just like "uhh, yeah hold on I'll grab someone" and of course I'm internally freaking out bc obviously a big red flag. So I see Christie first and tell her and she tells me to call 911. So I'm calling 911 and telling Karen about her pt at the same time and when I'm talkin to the lady on the phone, she's asking me a ton of questions about his breathing, if he's vomiting blood, is he stable, and on and on....and finally I'm like "have y'all dispatched the ambulance yet?" and the lady tells me no that they have to ask some more questions. By this point Christie's comin to the phone bc we were playing telephone bw me on a corded phone, Kelli at the door of the office w/Christie and the pt in her line of sight, and Christie.....just yellin across the room all the questions this lady is askin me. So Christie gets on the phone says "yes, yes, ok, ok, yes, thank you" and hangs up. I was just like - "she didn't ask you more questions?" She said no and that the lady was tryin to tell her what to do so she just agreed w/her since she already knew what to do. It takes them another 10 minutes to get there (the fire department is across the street, literally), and then these volunteer ppl have no idea what they're doing so Christie takes over and tries to transfer the guy to the stretcher. He lost strength and sensation in his L LE, and when she got him on the gurney he was yelling out in pain....I felt so bad for him and all of the other pts were concerned for him, too. They took him to the ER and he got an MRI but we never heard what happened to him beyond that, despite calling at least 5 times. The only thing that was suspicious about it was that he was sitting on the curb outside before treatment, smoking a cigarette, and he looked like he couldn't tolerate sitting at all by the time he came inside. Christie thinks he might have been exaggerating to get out of jail for a couple of days, but I don't know how you could fake losing B and B control....except if he had diarrhea for some reason. I guess he had already conned the PTA once before about some stuff. Who knows, either way, I felt bad for him.

That's my Monday drama. Some of the regular pts were raggin on me that it was when I started comin that this stuff started happenin on Mondays.....so I told them I'd be sure to hang close to them the next few Mondays. Ha. Seriously though, it's a lil crazy. Oh and I made a lady cry during a knee eval today, too, so you know it turned out to be a great day.....right.

Hope y'all are having less eventful weeks....
Rach