In the beginning, my first couple of appointments, I didn't actually receive anything at all apart from just an information sheet on the drugs and just an information sheet and a couple of website addresses, DIPEx was one of them, just to go an research myself. And probably the research I did was more damaging than anything else. I probably saw a lot more of the negative side of it than, than any positive side of it.
But on my third appointment, the nurse I was seeing at the hospital, [laughs] said, 'How about you come up to [hospital] and we can have an hour or two with you going through, you see a physiotherapist, you see an occupational therapist, you see, you know, different people in different roles who can explain how you can cope with things better, what you can do to help yourself, what exercises you can do.'
And I went up there to do that and, and that was very, very helpful. Really, really helpful. At the time, I was suffering from problems with my wrists as well, carpel tunnel syndrome.
And since, beginning of last year, beginning of 2007, I had an operation on both of my wrists and that's, kind of, helped that, but originally, they were helping me with that as well. And they referred me to a company that dealt with, sort of, disabled people and, and tools and, and things that could help, which was very, very helpful, at the time.
Yeah.
So, you know, I felt I actually got something out of that appointment, but it was only just mentioned in conversation that they could see me at [hospital], and and spend this time with me, but I think it was probably the best thing that happened really. |
