u/AstronomerDouble4478

Wondering if anyone else is having a hard time in PT. I normally live a pretty active lifestyle. I’m about 4 months post op, 4 anchors placed and a huge resection of CAM impingement, also had an iliospoas tenotomy. Never really realized that PT would kick my ass. For the first month I was thinking to myself “oh this is light work”…. Boy was I wrong. It has challenged me physically and mentally. My PT is a former college athlete and she is absolutely awesome and has my best interest at heart. I will say though, it feel like she pushes me VERY hard. Granted I am 24 and I should be able to do most of these things but I came out of PT today genuinely soaked in sweat and thinking “can I really do this?”. Wondering how to stay motivated to finish PT. I keep telling myself I need to do this to get better. It will make me better. I used to lift weights and have an active job that I have not returned to yet. Hopefully by the 6th month mark. Anyone else feel like the surgery was the easiest part?

Just generally curious. This is a question for If you are someone working in the ER (nurse, doc, tech etc). Does a paramedic or an EMT checking in as a patient concern you or make alarm bells go off? As someone who works in the 911 service, we have a similar version of farmers or blue collar people calling that makes us automatically more suspicious as they only really call when something serious is going on. Me personally, I know I’d have to be dead or dying to go to the ER because I know how much BS I bring into the er on a daily basis. Curious to know if it’s the same with people who walk into the ER who work in the field. Is that an automatic “oh shit” moment?