Owie on camera, again

This is take two of this post. The first version got eaten by some electronic hiccup. This second round is various reflections on HIPAA boilerplate, apps used in more than one platform, and healing amid the risk due to ongoing exposure to crap sidewalk. If RantWoman gets really carried away, there will also be some meandering around to climate change and sidewalks and walkability on the forefront of the battle to save our planet.

Recently RantWoman had her followup visit for the shoulder injury. RantWoman acquired said injury tripping over a crack in the sidewalk, a crack she knew was there, a crack Ambassador Thwack WOULD HAVE FOUND if RantWoman had not been allowing him to lase away folded up in her hand on familiar ground. Sorry. RantWoman will now CALM DOWN.

RantWoman does not mind sharing with the universe: the doctor is please by healing and by range of motion. RantWoman is basically pleased as well. RantWoman can do many more of the exercises she does to stretch and start her day than right after the injury. RantWoman is still out of balance trying further to pare down what she carries. RantWoman is also definitely feeling enough better to attempt things like weight bearing, carrying a purse or leaning on Thwack while getting on and off the bus; this is a mixed blessing. RantWoman's arm tends to remind her it is still healing.

RantWoman is also doubling down on her fall prevention stand on one foot exercises from another fall and adding a climb fingers up a wall stretch. RantWoman also has another followup appointment.

Various additional moments:
--RantWoman did her best pathetic blind person impression about the inaccessible form so during the visit the doctor went through part of it in his online charting tool. RantWoman had noticed some questions specifically about hand and shoulder function on the form that the doctor did not ask. Sigh.

--RantWoman has now changed her password at least twice in the app. Somehow in the password change sequence RantWoman kept getting presented with the privacy page so RantWoman finally broke down and read it. Among other things it reminds patients that they are responsible for deciding with whom to share private information.  So RantWoman is blogging discretely.

--RantWoman looked up the visit info both online and on her phone. RantWoman found one piece of information is one place but not the other. RantWoman will check again next time she messes with this and see if the information is actually in both places. Otherwise RantWoman will specify which info she looked for and did not find.

--NOT in the visit info that RantWoman kind of wishes were there, item 1: a category RantWoman would call "Weird stuff patients get off the internet or from their witch doctor friends." RantWoman would call it that but RantWoman suspects that a legal department or communications professional would have more delicate wording. RantWoman has in fact heard arnic recommended from some women who have no problem if RantWoman calls them witches; that is what they call themselves. RantWoman has also heard a nurese friend recommend it. The point is both oral arnica beads and arnica gel inherited after football season was over from Irrepressible Nephew. RantWoman does not even care if the issue is just placebo effect from family caring. RantWoman still thinks it valuable to document such additions to treatment.

--The other point RantWoman would like to see documented: the white cane. For one thing right after the injury, whenever Thwack encountered one of Seattle's many um uneven sidewalks, he would recoil and RantWoman's arm would be pushed up past what she could bear. The doctor suggeted using the cane int eh other arm, but no. Not if RantWoman needs to carry ANYTHING. No also on account of rhythm and walking pattern. Just document that RantWoman needs her cane and whatever complaints come with that fact.
    Document it because RantWoman knows other blind people who have cane issues when they injure and arm or a shoulder. If RantWoman is going to entrust her precious medical data to the vast global cyber info-maw, RantWoman darn well wants data important to her included on the assumption that she is not the only freak on the planet experiencing the problems she has.

There. That is all for now.