I'm lucky that before I started highschool we met the PE dept and sat down with them for an hour explaining just how spakky and broken I was. This alleviated most of the PE teacher idiocy, although shockingly not all of it.
When my hand swelled up to twice its size they were very good, I was an ickle first year who had just had surgery, so they had me at the nurse and in the hospital within an hour (my dad collected me).
But I had the growing pain in knees thing, probably poor balance and gait didn't help. My friend's knee was so damaged she has had lots of surgery on it and it completely screwed. The PE teachers thought the solution for "I can't do PE cos my knees are screwed" + notes was an excuse to make us trudge around the school field picking up litter. Most of the time my friend and I sat behind some building and chatted until being shouted at at which point we'd stand up, limp somewhere else and sit down again.
I don't understand how your doctors didn't tell you about scoliosis, surely some physio would have been more use before the damage? Bastards, utter bastards!
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Date: 2007-10-24 06:23 pm (UTC)I'm lucky that before I started highschool we met the PE dept and sat down with them for an hour explaining just how spakky and broken I was. This alleviated most of the PE teacher idiocy, although shockingly not all of it.
When my hand swelled up to twice its size they were very good, I was an ickle first year who had just had surgery, so they had me at the nurse and in the hospital within an hour (my dad collected me).
But I had the growing pain in knees thing, probably poor balance and gait didn't help. My friend's knee was so damaged she has had lots of surgery on it and it completely screwed. The PE teachers thought the solution for "I can't do PE cos my knees are screwed" + notes was an excuse to make us trudge around the school field picking up litter. Most of the time my friend and I sat behind some building and chatted until being shouted at at which point we'd stand up, limp somewhere else and sit down again.
I don't understand how your doctors didn't tell you about scoliosis, surely some physio would have been more use before the damage? Bastards, utter bastards!