I thought I would post an update as I was able to see the results of the MRI for the patient who ruffled my feathers last week.
Turns out she has a perineural cyst just outside of the neural foramen as well as multilevel degenerative disc disease in her thoracic spine (she's only 46!). After consulting with other PT's with more experience and orthopedic specialties they agreed that they would have been very conservative with this patient on the first day.
At any rate, it was nice to see that indeed I just might have made the right clinical decision.
In other news.....
Chris FINALLY had his review for his Engineer test.....turns out, as expected there was some shady/unfair practices put into place with his scoring. To make a VERY long story short.....his scoring boxes dictated that he had not made any "critical fail" mistakes, however it was comments left in the "comment section" (which is/should not be scored) were taken into account and a zero was given for the entire portion of the test, rather than the portion he had a problem on.
It was really hard to watch him go back to day one in dealing with the situation. It has been a rough few days since then with lots of phone calls, discussions, debates, etc.
We are still trying to figure out where to go from here. In all fairness, if he takes a zero only on the portion that was troublesome, he would be on the list....lower than desired, but at least.....ON the list. In order to get a zero he will have to file a grievance with his union, etc., etc., etc. and could be a big mess and go so far as to need a lawyer.
We are planning to do some more work at the house this weekend, should be good to mix up our routine and do a project together!
I will hopefully post some before and after pictures after we are done....this was all expedited for BUBBA'S VISIT HOME for the 4th of July weekend
Can't wait!
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