kaberett | My GP continues brill

(content note for mention of misgendering with a happy ending!)

Popped in today to talk about additional paperwork for academia purposes. He's perfectly cheerful about writing a letter to the effect that I'm well enough to resume studies, but the amount of physio/medical appointments/etc I have to do isn't compatible with working full-time.

We also got chatting about sports wheelchairs and The New Chair (I've just booked train tickets to go and pick it up and I am so excited) -- I get the impression he's a cyclist, and therefore goes oooOOOOOooh when you point out you've got Spinergy wheels on, and that wheelchair wheels are basically the same thing as high-end bike wheels.

And while he was distracted by all that, he referred to me using an inappropriately gendered pronoun in the notes he was making, caught himself, apologised appropriately, and rephrased entirely without input from me.

I genuinely hadn't even noticed that he'd spent the past however-long-it's-been carefully making sure that he doesn't misgender me in my medical records.

I am doing a small good cry about it, okay.

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redsixwing

<3 for your GP.

This is a lovely story and thank you for sharing it.

shewhostaples

I thoroughly approve of your GP.

davidgillon

It really does sound like you've got one of the good ones.

And yay for new chair pickup!

kaberett

I really, really have. I am really not looking forward to the inevitable eventual shopping around for a new one.

(SO EXCITED about the chair -- the current one really is just... trashing any trousers I wear with it that aren't very tight, and I can't wear very tight trousers for other body reasons, and just -- now that I know I've got the possibility of that not being a problem I'm finding it if anything even more frustrating? BUT. New chair! On the 11th! I really hope it's as much of an improvement as I'm expecting it to be...)

(... not least because I seem to have substantially lost my nerve about chucking myself up kerbs/down slopes since the last couple of times I tipped myself out of a chair, and I really do want to get more confident about that again, but it turns out that's not something I can fix while worrying about how badly I'm destroying the trousers I'm wearing :-s)

tree_and_leaf

That is a good story.

cereta

Yay for good doctors!

syderia

You have a nice doctor.
Thanks for sharing this.

the current one really is just... trashing any trousers I wear with it that aren't very tight

Yeah, the eBay chair is so close to that (not surprising given it's 2" too narrow). I'm using it as the inside chair and leaving the clown chair in the car at the moment. It mostly gets used while putting meals together, but does mean arms/shoulders get exercised even if I don't go out.

BUT. New chair! On the 11th! I really hope it's as much of an improvement as I'm expecting it to be...

Fingers crossed. And fingers crossed I'll have mine sometime around then. (Their window extends til end of June, but they implied it would likely be quicker).

I seem to have substantially lost my nerve about chucking myself up kerbs/down slopes since the last couple of times I tipped myself out of a chair

Unsurprising if one of those was the time the castor sheared! And I can totally understand the loss of confidence, gave up trying to learn to wheelie the clown chair after it ejected me backwards into the door post.

Oh, I figured out what kind of cushion they were talking about giving me, I had the wrong spelling for googling it, but a local wheelie I know put me right. It's this one: http://www.qbitus.co.uk/pudgee/ which isn't quite as basic as I'd assumed, though I still plan on having a hard conversation about it.