{"id":47,"date":"2004-09-11T10:29:52","date_gmt":"2004-09-11T17:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/index.php\/archives\/2004\/09\/11\/knees-and-nhs\/"},"modified":"2005-04-15T12:31:24","modified_gmt":"2005-04-15T20:31:24","slug":"knees-and-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2004\/09\/knees-and-nhs\/","title":{"rendered":"Knees and NHS<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the CSW<\/span> XML<\/span> Sum\u00admer School<\/a>, there was a rock night fea\u00adtur\u00ading a num\u00adber of Sum\u00admer School speak\u00aders and attendees in the band. I decided dan\u00adcing was more my style (I sing, but my voice is bet\u00adter suited to dif\u00adfer\u00adent music). And then I man\u00adaged, part-way through the even\u00ading, to dam\u00adage my knee. It was still hurt\u00ading a lot in the morn\u00ading, so I decided that I should get it checked out. <\/p>\n

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So there we were in the sum\u00admer school office, me call\u00ading the travel insur\u00adance com\u00adpany and Nata\u00adsha call\u00ading loc\u00adal doc\u00adtors, to find the appro\u00adpri\u00adate place. They all ended up con\u00adver\u00adging on recom\u00admend\u00ading one of the loc\u00adal hos\u00adpit\u00adals with an ortho\u00adpaed\u00adic depart\u00adment, so off we went. <\/p>\n

My impres\u00adsion over\u00adall was good. At 10 am on a Wed\u00adnes\u00adday morn\u00ading the hos\u00adpit\u00adal was almost empty so ser\u00advice was rel\u00adat\u00adively fast; the form-filling sys\u00adtem was extremely inef\u00adfi\u00adcient with lots of redund\u00adant inform\u00ada\u00adtion (e.g., name of the coun\u00adtry you come from as well as a code for the coun\u00adtry you come from which was looked up on a paper list). The care was free (which the travel insur\u00adance did\u00adn\u2019t know; they were sur\u00adprised when I called back later and said I did\u00adn\u2019t need to pay any\u00adthing). The hos\u00adpit\u00adal looked new with lots of nat\u00adur\u00adal light and trees in pots and a photo-mont\u00adage of the 11 moon phases dur\u00ading the lun\u00adar month. And then a pin\u00adboard with ads for the organ donor registry (it appears to have been \u201cNation\u00adal Trans\u00adplant Week\u201d) and bro\u00adchures with titles like \u201cBuddhism and Organ Dona\u00adtion\u201d cov\u00ader\u00ading the major reli\u00adgious beliefs (Buddhism, Sikhism, Chris\u00adtian\u00adity, Juda\u00adism, Hindu Dharma).<\/p>\n

The knee was pro\u00adnounced to be in need of time to heal but no sur\u00adgery; a relief after my pre\u00advi\u00adous arth\u00adro\u00adscopy exper\u00adi\u00adence on the oth\u00ader knee. The inter\u00adest\u00ading thing was that the res\u00adid\u00adent told me to take max\u00adim\u00adum doses of both paracetamol (the UK<\/span> ver\u00adsion of acet\u00adaminophen) and ibupro\u00adfen. Jenni Ten\u00adnison (whose fath\u00ader is a doc\u00adtor) told me this is com\u00admon in the UK<\/span> as the two pain killers have dif\u00adfer\u00adent effects and work on dif\u00adfer\u00adent sched\u00adules, so tak\u00ading both helps in con\u00adtrolling the pain.<\/p>\n

Almost 6 weeks later, after physio\u00adther\u00adapy every week back home in Van\u00adcouver, the knee is almost com\u00adpletely back to nor\u00admal. My physio told me, once the swell\u00ading had sub\u00adsided enough to actu\u00adally be able to judge, that I\u2019d sprained my knee rather than tear\u00ading car\u00adtil\u00adage. So that was the good news. And going back to Pil\u00adates after their sum\u00admer break will help as well.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s funny, the way you learn things about the body only when you have some reas\u00adon to. Like the fact that many women are knock-kneed (the root cause of my knee prob\u00adlems) and tend to prona\u00adtion, simply because of the way the legs are con\u00adnec\u00adted to the hips. I guess in terms of evol\u00adu\u00adtion, hav\u00ading bad knees is not a great disadvantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exper\u00adi\u00adences with the NHS<\/span> after knee dam\u00adage incurred while dancing\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}