Monday, October 13, 2003
THE UPS AND DOWNS
When I'm at work, I'm in a consant struggle between feeling up and down. When I can make a patient feel better, I leave the treatment session feeling great, even if I'm exhausted afterward. It's such a good feeling knowing that you were directly able to affect a patient's pain for the better. But when they don't get better after multiple treatments (or they get worse), I leave feeling so disappointed and hurt. It's such a painful experience for me because I feel like I let them down and disappointed them. But PT can't save everybody and I definitely can't help everybody.
I guess the old sports cliche applies: You should never reach your highest high when things or up or reach your lowest low when things are down.
When I'm at work, I'm in a consant struggle between feeling up and down. When I can make a patient feel better, I leave the treatment session feeling great, even if I'm exhausted afterward. It's such a good feeling knowing that you were directly able to affect a patient's pain for the better. But when they don't get better after multiple treatments (or they get worse), I leave feeling so disappointed and hurt. It's such a painful experience for me because I feel like I let them down and disappointed them. But PT can't save everybody and I definitely can't help everybody.
I guess the old sports cliche applies: You should never reach your highest high when things or up or reach your lowest low when things are down.
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