Michelle

I mentioned that Michelle had had a bad fall last Friday as she was on her way to the bus stop after work. She went to Minor Injuries and they said she had injured her muscles and that it could take 6 weeks to heal up. She very rarely complains of pain, even in her hand which is seriously arthritic after her finger was crushed and reconstructed.

She was off duty this weekend but she said she had a lot of pain today and the pain tablets the hospital gave her aren't very effective. Her neck is in a bad way. She is wearing a surgical collar and she can't lift her arms above her head, but she went to work with the intention of asking the manager if she could do lighter duties for a while. They saw that she was trying to accommodate them and that she had come to work so as not to let them down, so they went out of their way to make things easier for her. She was put into one of the quieter houses where the residents are less dependent and she won't have to do their grocery shopping until she is better.

She will be on Leave next week anyway and she will be going on Retreat in Eastbourne.
I hope that will give her the time she needs to heal up. I am worried about the neck though and think she should have a couple of treatments from an Osteopath to reduce the risk of damage showing itself in the future. This sort of injury can seem fine for years and then decades later neck problems arise and by then it is hard to remember the original injury.

I'm really tired after spending 40 min on the computer so I will lie down for a bit now.