What a colossal waste of time!

Yesterday I had to go to see the eye specialist... not because i felt there was something wrong with my eyes... but basically to get my mum off my back.
Anyway what an absolute waste of my time. And in the end he said... your eyes are perfect cya in 2 yrs...

My appointment was at 3pm... so i rocked up and waited around half an hr to do some visual field testing... The receptionist actually sent me home for a while cos she said it would be a bit of a wait... so i went home and came back at 6pm like she told me to....

I didnt actually get in to see the doctor till 8pm... and considering my appointment was like 3pm and i sat in the waiting room from 6-8pm so i was pretty pissed off. I mean if there was actually something wrong then i'd have felt ok waiting but i feel that my eyes are fine.

Far out... all i have to say is that even when i'm solidly booked out i dont overbook and cram too many people in... and my patients are unlucky to have to wait 30min... actually they rarely wait more than 5min to see me cos i try to run to time.

ARgh... i'm so annoyed about what a big waste of my day off that was. I had so much stuff to do. So i'm back at work this morning... and i'm already tired and annoyed!!

WFC Conference

WFC... what's that... well it's the World Federation of Chiropractic. And this year the conference was held in sydney!

The first day talks and workshops were mostly on the cervical spine and in particular headaches. They had presentations by a neurosurgeon, radiologist, physiotherapist and a multidiciplinary panel discussion which was quite interesting.

There's a medical doctor who doesnt like chiropractors and he came and spoke on headaches (cervicogenic, migraine, tension-type). The funny thing is his reseach supports a lot of the scientific basis of chiropractic... just that he prefers to stick needles into somebody's neck and do a nerve block to relieve their headache. The problem with this is that not all doctors have this equipment in their offices - i mean you have to give the person a local anaesthetic anyway and also have them in a CT or MR scanner to visualise the area you're putting your needle into!! Personally i'd prefer a chiropractic adjustment - takes 10 sec and it does relieve the headache!

If you're interested in reading more about chiropractic and headaches then this is an intro to a scientific study done at Mac uni recently.

I really got into the 2nd day of the conference... was all about sports and especially the shoulder and how to treat shoulder problems. One of the speakers was the Davis Cup team chiro and his presentation was a bit more theory but it was helpful. Kinda wanted a bit more practical input tho. Did quite a bit of networking within Australian sports chiropractic circles. I am already a member of the international sports organisation - Fédération Internationale de Chiropratique du Sport (FICS).

My number plates got stolen

Last night my number plates got stolen during Theos.

It's kinda annoying. Today i've been running around getting new plates for the car. They're remaking my old plates but i have dodgy yellow ones in the meantime... but at least i can drive my car around now.

The RTA told me that if i get my old plates remade then the police might pull me over cos the plates are reported stolen. I'm actually hoping i do get pulled over cos it means that the police are on the ball.

It's all kinda ironic tho cos our study last night was on the Christian and Litigation. So anyway... for the ppl who understand this... i forgive the person that stole my plates...

Trev at the gym

Well... my joke backfired... he actually likes all those songs that i put on his mp3 player...

He was at the gym and just happened to be looking at this guy when the song "Jitterbug" by Wham started playing (another one of my 'joke' songs). Trev started laughing and the guy thought he was laughing at him...

Trev's new MP3 player

today i got into work late (intentionally) and trev was waiting for me to come in to show him how to get songs from the computer onto his new mp3 player...

i thought it would be a funny joke to download a heap of daggy songs (like abba's dancing queen and you're so vain by carly simon) and put them on his player so that he could listen to them when he goes to the gym...

anyway... the joke backfired... it turns out he likes the songs i put onto his player.... doh...