I have received the preliminary documents for my meeting with the anaesthesiologist in due course.
It asks some questions which make no sense to me. It wants me to scale the best health I can imagine, the worst health I can imagine and rate today’s score on a scale of 0 to 100.
The best health I can currently realistically imagine is how I feel in and around now. It has nothing to do with how I might have been aged 25. I can’t remember that!! That best score is demarcated 100%. In general how I feel depends upon where I am on the pain relief schedule. When pills are due or after I have walked a lot when there is pain so this is the worse I currently feel.
Is this meant to be 0%? I am not sure this is what they mean.
Am I to imagine a session of waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay?
What about after eating some delicious Australian gourmet Beef Wellington?
Or is 0% dead….
On the “realism” scale I would be somewhere around 80-100% all the time. Where 80 % is pills due after a long walk.
If 0% is dead then I would feel fine because I would no longer have a body. So for now I will always feel worse than dead, because pain is residual. When I am dead, I will feel no physical pain.
I feel worse than if I was dead.
I doubt they would like or understand that answer.
It asks if I can accomplish my current activities. Of course I can. I have adjusted these so that I am able to do them so the answer is a big fat yes, I can do all my current activities. I have adjusted my activities to my ability.
It asks if I am anxious or depressed. It does not ask if I am calm and chilled…
The questionnaire does not fit me well, yet the answers are going to go into some spreadsheet or for research!!
I am not trying to be contrary but I do not think like that questionnaire suspects…
I feeling a tad Victor Meldrew…
Dreamyoga 