JG Physio

28 I realized this year that your birthday is much more fun when you’re excited about it instead of being scared to get old. Pandemic or not I’m having an amazing time with my loved ones, eating too much food and enjoying the weather. Thanks to everyone who took the time to wish me happy birthday, I appreciate your kind words

Super grateful to have been a part of Shawn-Olivier Boivin Blanchard's project: Les héros du COVID. Shawn, merci énormément d'utiliser ton talent pour le bien et de mettre en valeur notre travail durant cette période difficile. C'était un plaisir de te rencontrer!

Very torn between being scared and being brave and nonchalant. For the last two weeks, I’ve been assigned to the emergency department and I absolutely love this assignment. It’s the reason I applied for this job, it’s the reason I went into acute care. I love the work you do as a physio in this unit, a valuable and rapid analysis that really has an impact on the patient’s care. It’s been exciting, but also very draining. One day I saw two patients who afterwards were tested a...nd put on precautions. I came home and self-isolated in case but luckily their results came back negative. As we are getting a little more used to working in these conditions, I had started to accept that I was eventually gonna catch it, and convincing myself that if I do it will be fine. But today I had to go get tested because I was potentially exposed and then of course I definitely don’t feel casual about it all. I think it’s definitely normal to feel scared at times, and a bad ass health care hero at other times... and I think the same applies to being afraid of going out versus wanting things to go back to normal. In the end I find what has helped me the most has been to trust others. Yes people make mistakes, but they are doing their job and they are better at it than I would be. I don’t like it when other professionals overstep into my scope of practice so why would I step in on theirs? I trust my doctor when he tells me that I’m not more at risk than anyone else, I trust the precautions that are put in on top of each patient I see, I trust if I am in contact with someone positive at work they will let me know, and I trust the government guidelines about whether or not it’s safe for things to open again. I hope this helps you feel less scared, if there’s something you want to vent about, don’t be shy See more

So I’ve officially changed my availability at the hospital to full time. There’s a few reasons I only wanted to work 3 days a week pre-pandemic: I would commute 3 hours per day and commuting to me is THE MOST exhausting and draining thing ever. I would use my days off to workout and get some things done so I could relax during the weekend. I also wanted to keep some time to myself to improve as a therapist and work towards my future career goals. Now however, I drive to work ...and it takes me 25 minutes, my gym is closed so my workout routine was completely disrupted, my career plans are on pause and if I have a day off there’s nothing to do. And last but definitely not least, especially once I got over the initial fear of the virus, I wanted to help. A few of our team members are off and we are all hands on deck to try to cover all the units, mainly planning discharges to promote bed flow and mobilizing to prevent general deterioration. My priority has always been myself and my health (because how can you help others if you don’t help yourself first?), but desperate times call for desperate measures. It’s not gonna be forever but my priority now is to help my colleagues, help my hospital, help my patients and help Montreal get through this. If you’ve read through all of this thank you See more

Current diet: dessert after dinner every night Current workout routine: taking the stairs at work because the elevators don’t allow proper social distancing Current goal: not getting sick, not bringing the virus home, helping my hospital Current physique: definitely not my best, thankfully able to hide a lot under my leggings Is that okay? Yes. Will I try to do better? Also yes. (I worked out tonight after work for the first time in forever and I filmed it! Go watch my insta stories.) Just a little reminder in case you too feel overwhelmed by all the posts of people being their best selves. If you’re killing it at home, that’s all good, but if you’re just doing the best you can, that’s all good too.