Help From The Professionals

It seems that once you get on the roller coaster with the medical profession that there is no end  to getting help. Sometimes it feels that you are just being passed on from one to another. In my case I have received the excellent care I desired and every step to recovery was directed by professionals. It is a long road as I was told from the very beginning but it is nearly completed.

My final stage after surgery is in the hands of a caring professional from Chedoke who is building me a device to enable me to walk normally. I counted 11 specialists who have walked me through the system from pre-surgery to me leaving the system some 12 months in all. Every one played a role and used their expertise to guide me along the correct path. Each specialist  stayed within the framework of their particular talent and all delivered sound healing along the way.

Theresa and I are looking forward to the end of numerous visits to medical offices and consultations. Our final {I hope } visit will come in two weeks when I have my fitting for an orthotic which will correct a walking issue. She explained and showed us what she is going to do so I thought I would get a little jump during the two weeds and make my own. I took one of my old orthotics and built up a layered thickness to the device. I used that great material called duck tape. Today Theresa and I went for a long walk and I must say it worked very well. I just thought that if this helped, imagine how much better  the professionally designed device will work.

I never took any step along the way without seriously following most of the directions and tried to do what was right.Now that the end is near I realize that without the help of Theresa and family who encouraged me it would have seemed like a nightmare. Instead it was a journey of healing that I am and will be eternally grateful for the rest of my life. Certain words resonated with me after I left the hospital. Everyone who was my caregiver said many times, make sure you do not ruin the gift you received by being foolish.

I feel I have been a good patient with not a lot of patience but managed the best I could.