brief update

As regular readers of this blog know, my mother has, for the past two years, been using a walker which was too large for her.

That means she has not been able to walk properly, thereby training her muscles the wrong way---and increasing the likelikhood that she can lose her balance and fall.  For an eighty-six year old woman, that is a serious matter.

Ergo, the people who gave her the walker, and all those therapists and therapists' assistants who saw my mother and the walker, but said nothing, were incompetent.  You could say they were guilty of malpractice.

Now, my mother is trying to get a walker that is the right size.  The local medical supplier is not being cooperative.

Imagine.  You are eighty-six years old.  You have worked hard all of your life, and paid into social insurance, and you are still working.  (My mother cares for my less healthy father.)  And, the system is such crap that you cannot even get so simple a thing as a walker which is actually the right size for your height.

And the people who are supposed to be professionals do not even bother to notice that you've got the wrong walker---until, that is, my mother started going to a new PT.  So, the ratio of competent to incompetent PT's would appear to be approximatel 1 to 4 .

That's bullshit.