FMyLife #10 : Docs & Biceps

Annual visit to doctor for sports certificate to get French Federation licence.

Door of waiting room opens, doc calls my name. Backpack on shoulder and skates in hand, I head towards the doc with free arm straight for a handshake...

... Guess who kisses me hello on both cheeks? I know it's very French, but I can assure you that no matter how long you've known your doc (for yearly visits) even in France, it feels like "err-- okay" awkward.

Welcomes me in and follows me to his desk when he adds in a confessing tone that "[he] ha[d] always been jealous of [my] biceps". Eyebrow rising. Haha. Thanks!

Let's do the physical test, shall we?

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Bad timing...

Lately, I translated an article on the optimal moments of the day to go skating, according to your body rhythms.

FRENCH and ENGLISH versions
on online-skating.com

Obviously, it works for skating as well as for any physical activity: the article breaks down the different times of your body's circadian cycles (internal clock) as well as its chemical reactions to those different phases... and concludes with the best time slots to be active according to your body's awakeness.

The specific vocabulary is obviously explained with everyday words, and the article highlights the main ideas of the concept.

I am not writing a post to advertize for it, though:

As soon as the first lines, it re-activated forgotten memories carefully filed in a corner of my brain.

FMyLife #6: Glad I Called

-- Phone call, me calling.

Me: "Hi, I'm calling to find out if you have any news about the agreement for the bearing of the medical cost of my 3-week rehab stay, for which I gave you my surgeon's prescription on September, 5th..."

Health Insurance Operator: "Let me check... Mmh yes, our doctor gave his tacit agreement on the 22nd. Why, do you want a written document vouching for the agreement?"

DUUUUH... Glad I called! FML.

FLASHBACK Had been harrassing surgeon since mid-July to get prescription which finally received on Sept., 5th. Immediately rushed to health insurance agency to leave it. Seeing no news coming, harrased insurance for 10 days before they announced me they had passed prescription on to official doctor on Sept., 22nd. Kept on harrassing insurance... got doctor's number fifteen days later. Did not call because could do more harm than good. Decided to stop stressing over all that. Called out of curiosity today. Hopefully.
 

Think Positive: Shoud receive letter *soon* and will be able to contact rehab center to get my dates at last!

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FMyLife #5

Surgeon: Unreachable since mid-July despite my chasing up by phone and mail.

Doctor: Stuck with a cast for two weeks and unavailable before the end of September.

These are the two only persons on Earth who can deliver me a prescription for my final three-week physiotherapy stay, which ideally should have taken place... right NOW.

If ever I manage to get the two-line letter with a signature (even a mail would work!) then I will be able to go to my health insurance fund and make my file examined (for the 3rd time -- yep, 3rd stay) by the official doctor who will consequently give the green light to the insurance to agree and bear the medical costs of my 7.000€ 3-week stay (hopefully) but not the cost of the transportation (for which I should ask my surgeon or my doctor for another prescription and bring it to my insurance for a prior agreement, without which I would never get refunded afterwards). Then, eventually, I will call the Center back, send my file with the paperwork, and wait for them to contact me and give me the dates when they have vacancy. FML.

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CERS

First day at the CERS*.

Put my clothes in the cupboard. Single room with ocean view. Met the nurse. Met the doctor. Met the physiotherapist. Had a look around. Showered. Ate.

Now waiting for the real thing to start: physio-physio-physio from 8am to 5pm. Alternating with proprioception, balneotherapy and work-out. Every day. 4 weeks. Back in March.

Deep breath: GO!

 

* European Physiotherapy Center for Athletes.

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Thank God it's NOT my measurements, but my results for a physical recovery test.

This morning I went to the doctor for the annual appointment to get my medical certificate proving I'm allowed to do sports...

He made me do the Ruffier-Dickson Test to ckeck my capacity to adapt to a physical effort. The test is very basic and you must have experienced it at least once in your life.

The test is run following three steps :

1. Take your Heart Rate at rest on 1 minute (sitting or laying down) (P1)
2. Make 30 up & down knee flexions within 45 sec with the feet flat on the floor.Take your HR on 15 sec (P2)
3. Rest 1 minute, and take your Heart Rate (P3)