Ways to annoy your PTA.

[wildone]

I hope you didn't have a mouth full of coffee or water 😮 Or maybe I wish you did. 

[Ron]

4 hours ago, CassieQ said:

Patient:  Well, you really need to …

Oh! My goodness, that’s so audacious that it stretches the imagination. 

Edited February 10 by Ron

[CassieQ]

Ways to annoy your PTA:

Patient:  I was so sore after PT on  Wednesday that I had to take two Tylenol. 

(Note:  Today is Wednesday)

Me:  So you were sore after your last session on Monday?

Patient:  No, it was after our session on Wednesday.   

Me:  Last Wednesday?

Patient:  No, our last session...pauses as the wheels start to turn...yes, the one on Monday.

* * * * *

Me performing strength test.

Me:  Straighten this leg for me.

Patient extends his knee.

Me:  Good.  Now please bend your knee.

Patient extends his leg again.

Me:  I want you to bend the knee, with your foot down.  

Patient starts to bounce foot while keeping the leg straight.

Me:  Okay, pull your foot back.  

Patient starts swinging foot back and forth.  

Me:  Okay, just pull your foot up underneath you.   

This, for some reason, computes and he bends the knee.

Me, going to test the other leg. 

Me:  Okay,  please straighten the leg again.  

Patient bends his knee.

* * * * *

Former patient returning to PT calls out to my coworker:

"You've lost a lot of weight!"  

Said coworker was pregnant last time he was in. 

* * * * *

That is all this morning.  WTF is happening?

 

[CassieQ]

I usually treat vertigo.  

Woke up with it this morning.   Gotta say, not a fan.

[CassieQ]

I am a pot boiling over.  

[lawfulneutralmage]

Let it out here... we are listening.

[CassieQ]

1 hour ago, lawfulneutralmage said:

Let it out here... we are listening.

Thanks.  I don't want to say too much because it involves a coworker instead of a patient, but I was really about to lose it yesterday and needed to vent somewhere.   

[lawfulneutralmage]

There is a Dilbert cartoon strip which an exchange as follows:

 

Manager asks employee: How do you describe your team relations?

 

Employee: I succeed at abstaining from giving my co-workers the beating they so richly deserve.

 

Manager: I'll shorten that to 'you are a team player'.

[CassieQ]

14 minutes ago, lawfulneutralmage said:

There is a Dilbert cartoon strip which an exchange as follows:

 

Manager asks employee: How do you describe your team relations?

 

Employee: I succeed at abstaining from giving my co-workers the beating they so richly deserve.

 

Manager: I'll shorten that to 'you are a team player'.

In that context, I am very much a team player!

[lawfulneutralmage]

My thought exactly 

[CassieQ]

Patients have been suspiciously well behaved.  So here are some recent gems from friends and family. 

1.  Patient came in for an evaluation and refused regular PT appointments as he prefered using ChatGPT but wanted a professional opinion.  

2.  One of my coworkers had a cancellation.  When asked why, the patient responded that my coworkers hands were too cold and it was physically and emotionally damaging. 

3.  From my sister, who works as an RN in the neuro ICU of a hospital:

My sister, to a patient:  Do you know what year it is?

Patient:  It’s the year you're gonna get your ass kicked. 

[CassieQ]

My clinic has 70 patients scheduled for today.  Here's to hoping I make it through with my sanity intact.  

[lawfulneutralmage]

Overall of for you?!?

[CassieQ]

1 minute ago, lawfulneutralmage said:

Overall of for you?!?

Overall.   I get 17 of them.  Halfway through my shift currently and very tired.

[Jason Rimbaud]

8 hours ago, CassieQ said:

Here's to hoping I make it through with my sanity intact.  

IT's cute that you think you are already sane!   

[Jason Rimbaud]

2 hours ago, CassieQ said:

Halfway through my shift currently and very tired

Read chapter one of Tyler's Dilemma, I think that should perk you up! 

[CassieQ]

Ways to annoy your PTA:

1) Come in late for your 8 a.m. appointment.   Claim that you didn't come in on time because you got here and thought we weren't open. When the building had lights on, doors unlocked, and cars in the parking lot. 

2) A patient asked me if she could start doing her neck exercises after a vestibular episode (feeling dizzy).  I say yes.  She goes "Oh good, because I've already been doing them.  

[wildone]

I imagine that is why they pay you the big bucks  

 

[CassieQ]

1 minute ago, wildone said:

I imagine that is why they pay you the big bucks  

 

Big bucks?  

[Krista]

On 4/15/2026 at 1:51 PM, CassieQ said:

Ways to annoy your PTA:

1) Come in late for your 8 a.m. appointment.   Claim that you didn't come in on time because you got here and thought we weren't open. When the building had lights on, doors unlocked, and cars in the parking lot. 

2) A patient asked me if she could start doing her neck exercises after a vestibular episode (feeling dizzy).  I say yes.  She goes "Oh good, because I've already been doing them.  

And you know they've already looked up office hours and knew exactly when you opened. 

[Jason Rimbaud]

16 hours ago, Krista said:

And you know they've already looked up office hours and knew exactly when you opened. 

So true, people do that. 

[CassieQ]

Ways to annoy your PTA:

Show up late and then act like I'm the one inconveniencing you and also yell at me because you're mad about your insurance for good measure.