I sprained my right shoulder at the gym trying too much weight on the stacks of the nautulus. I knew I boogered it up as soon as I made my first rep. God, it hurt when it did it but not half as much as it hurt after I showered up and went home. It really stiffened up then. I could barely lift my arm. I had to punch in my chiropractor’s phone number with my left hand.
I got his answering machine, “This is Dr. XXXX. I will be out of town from the 1st through the 8th. If this is an emergency, call Dr. YYYY at 555-555-5555.”
I called Dr. YYYY as instructed. He answered the phone himself. I explained my problem to him and he suggested that I come over to his office right away. Fortunately, his office was only a couple of miles away so I went directly there.
Dr. YYYY’s office was in his house. It was an older, restored two story Victorian place on a main street. His office was on the first floor of the building and his living quarters on the second floor.
He met me at the door. He hardly looked like a health care professional to me. He was Hispanic, about 5’8”, a stocky 180lbs, and buff. He was wearing dark blue sweat pants and a brilliant red t-shirt. He filled both up magnificently. His arms were massive; I could see the definition of his pecs and abs through the t-shirt material; and I could see the shape of his quads underneath his sweatpants. I caught the contour of another bulge in the front of his sweatpants--it looked nice and firm, too. I couldn’t help but feel a little tingle going through me looking at that.
He asked me a few questions about how I hurt myself, filled in a couple of insurance and consent forms for me to sign, and took a quick x-ray of my shoulder. When he looked at the x-ray, he looked relieved, “Nothing broken and no joint effusion. Good signs.”
He helped me take off my shirt and had me hop up on his treatment table, one of those black naugahide covered jobs that folded down in the middle and that had that funny looking oval cushion for my face for me to use when I lay on my stomach for the treatment.