Dear Jhamna**,
You are an absolute bitch, and I hate your guts.
But I mean that in the nicest way.
Thanks to my last post, I now know of many people who have experienced frozen shoulder. All of them said that physical therapy is the only thing that expedites healing.
So I know you are doing your job, but you are so MEAN. So mean.
Within 10 minutes of meeting you, you pulled my arm way above my head, and counted to 10. Twice. Despite me squirming in pain.
I wanted to yell:
My arm doesn’t bend that way right now, lady. Stop trying to wrench it off!
But instead, I wept quietly.
You said:
I should give you to Michelle (the other therapist). She doesn’t care about tears. I’m the nice one.
You are the nice one? Shudder.
To be honest, the physical therapist I had before my insurance changed (join me for a future TED Talk on that nightmare) was too nice. I didn’t see any improvement in range of motion. But I chalked that up to being in the “freezing” stage.
I do see an improvement in just a couple of days with you. Part of it could be that I’m religiously doing the exercises because I am scared of you.
I know you’ve seen your share of people with my condition.
I know you know what you are doing.
I know this is what I need.
I also know that I don’t want to ever see you again.
But I’ll see you Monday.
Your terrified victim respectful client,
Beth
*If you don’t immediately start singing “Jump Around,” something is wrong with you.
**This is her name. She’s Brazilian. She is merciless.
Observe and report 
I am scared of Jhamna just from reading this. There must be some other way…
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Well, the painkillers haven’t worked. Neither has the cortisone shot. So a Brazilian beating it is.
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“Jump around! Jump around!” Ooops… PT can really hurt but I think I’m able to walk as well as I can now because of it. Hang in there.
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Thank you. I know I must.
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So physical therapists use the “good cop, bad cop” routine! Wow. Like she said “I am the devil-you-know, but I’m a nice devil.”
**”The house of pain” I didn’t remember “Jump Around,” until i clicked the link. I was thinking rather of “The Island of Lost Souls” from 1932
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She is not a nice devil. She made me scream today. But I guess she knows what she’s doing.
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