Jorge Alegre Blog

Today I started the exercise in the pool, as told by my therapist. I did 15 min of exercise in the pool, and was not bad. It looks promising that I can do 30 min of exercise with my legs soon, and start winning the battles. Today I started the exercise in the pool, as told by my therapist. I did 15 min of exercise in the pool, and was not bad. It looks promising that I can do 30 min of exercise with my legs soon, and start winning the battles.

During this week I will be doing swimming too, not just walking, and in 15 days I should see some kind of improvement. Being able to shower without a seat would be really nice, but maybe too soon.

On the contrary, I met with the doctor from a private health insurance and basically she told me that my disability did not prevent me from attending work. I internally translated those words to “well, the insurance company does not want to pay for your recovering”. I can very well understand the second phrase, but I think some kind of crappy society we have when doctors tell patients to do certain activities that go against them.

Tomorrow I will meet the doctor from the public insurance, so you can imagine how I can be feeling. This is a every week stressful situation when they can tell me anytime “Game Over”, “Finito”, “Acabose”. I think every week on the same think, what I can do if they dump me. And I can’t come close to any idea, all of them are bad ideas.

I guess I will have to let time go by, and whatever comes, take it as it comes. I hope that the pool thing makes me have stronger legs, or at least feel that I am turning the trend here…