It was my 15th physical therapy. In the morning, I was supposed to leave house at 7 a.m. when I turned on the engine, my car emitted a weird high pitch tone from the engine room. I instantly thought I should not go to this appointment. But then again, good moral of me came in and told me I should go. After thought about it for a while, the sound calmed down, so I decided to go.
It was raining and a cold morning with low air pressure. Maybe my car made an unusual sound because of the low temperature. That affected humans too. I was feeling lazy and dizzy, and the young female doctor seemed to be unhappy for some reasons. She asked me how was my last 2 sessions with the male doctor went. I mentioned after his 2 treatments, my sleep quality and length have gotten much improved than before. When she heard that from me, she obviously hurt her feeling. I instantly felt that she was jealous to the male doctor who was her supervisor and the employer. I don’t think she should feel jealous because the male doctor has 20 years more job experienced and skilled than her. But I can tell she didn’t like when I praised the male doctor.
At the last moment of the physical therapy, she applied dry needling on my right foot. When she applied electric stimulation, all 5 fingers of my right foot curled inward without my will and got stiff. I got panicked and felt scared. The female doctor already left the room, but I called her out loud and asked her to stop the electric stimulation right away. When she turned down the electric stimulation, my toe fingers got back to normal. The young female doctor also got scared, so that she ended the dry needling session within 3 minutes or so.
After came back home, I was filled with shock, anger, and sadness. I shed tears a lot. After that, I needed to take a nap for some hours.
After I woke up from nap, I strongly felt I should stop taking the physical therapy. I should graduate from it. I asked advice from my daughter and husband. They both agreed with me. They encouraged me to follow my strong intuition. With their encouragement, I cancelled the next physical therapy appointments.
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