Read on Twitter
Me: “I’m very sorry, I was absolutely going to wear my mask but I forgot, I will breathe away and down...”
Mat the Myotherapist (wearing a mask): “Kate, if there’s a single person who attends this practice that I trust to get this right, it’s you. Don’t worry.”
Me: “Aw.”
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥰" title="Smiling face with 3 hearts" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with 3 hearts">
Mat the Myotherapist (wearing a mask): “Kate, if there’s a single person who attends this practice that I trust to get this right, it’s you. Don’t worry.”
Me: “Aw.”
MtheM: “Since you were telling me about how people use gloves, I’ve been watching, and you’re right! I’m so used to thinking about hygiene and contamination with gloves, for clinical practice, I didn’t realise that people didn’t know!”
Me: “It’s a bit of a bummer.”
Me: “It’s a bit of a bummer.”
MtheM: “but people have the gloves on and they touch surfaces and then their nose, their mouth, rub their eyes, touch their glasses - it’s amazing! I can’t stop noticing!”
(This was the moment when I quietly realised that possibly I had made his anxiety worse. Whoopshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😬" title="Grimacing face" aria-label="Emoji: Grimacing face">)
(This was the moment when I quietly realised that possibly I had made his anxiety worse. Whoops
Incidentally, these conversations with people are what motivate me to write blog posts about this kind of thing - when I hit a certain critical mass of “people who don’t know this useful thing”, whether directly or via reports, I get sort of horrified and determined.
Note: I have a cloth mask with a filter pocket that I reserve for one on one interactions or enclosed building spaces, most of my stash went to the at home doctor service so I must be discerning in my use of filters.
Mat is in a high risk situation but also they share a building with a dental surgery, so their base level of sanitation was super high before this. Now it’s amped.
Takes 20 minutes between patients wiping down every surface (also the bottle of hand sanitizer, good catch).
Takes 20 minutes between patients wiping down every surface (also the bottle of hand sanitizer, good catch).
People wait in their cars until appointment time, then he calls them on the phone and asks screening questions.
The only thing he can’t control for is the same thing none of us can really control for, and that’s respiratory droplets of asymptomatic infected people.
The only thing he can’t control for is the same thing none of us can really control for, and that’s respiratory droplets of asymptomatic infected people.
The masks are imperfect solutions, but they are better than nothing. So I’m reasonably sure he’s as safe as can be managed, and he’s asked that people only come in for treatment if they really need help (I was nauseated from shoulder pain, decided that counts).
I think most clinical practices are taking these sorts of precautions and it does reassure me. It’s not perfect but it’s a significant reduction in risk, and in this numbers game we’re all playing, that’s a good move.
Anyways there’s not much point to this thread except that my myotherapist gave me a compliment and I found it very reassuring.
...as you were.
...as you were.
