Yeah, my hand op was £514 for the initial consult, operation, post consult and 2 hours of physio.
I’m sure you and I know people who are on a better day rate than that…who didn’t go to uni for 7+ years 
One referral covers up to five physio appointments.
So I should be good 
Very envious of you all with BUPA and equivalents! It’s not a benefit offered through my current work which is annoying, but thinking it might be a worthwhile investment if current aches and pains are anything to go by.
No running for two more weeks.
Two weeks of exercises.
Two weeks of icing my foot for 15 minutes per day.
Great start to the season 
Before I had a shoulder op, they had to measure a few vitals. My resting HR came out at 36 so they had to flag it when they put me under to make sure it didn’t go too low 
Dr said it could take a few weeks for the steroid injection to take effect, so don’t be disheartened if it doesnt feel better straight away. Well it doesn’t feel better and I am disheartened. Feel in limbo, can’t swim, can’t lift weights.
Might start doing some leg strength training in the mean time. As long as I’m not lifting above my head should be OK.
Pfft, mine can’t.
I’ve got to stand one footed and bounce a ball against a wall and catch it at different speeds and heights and widths 
Plus some other stuff, which all involves standing.
I can draw the alphabet with my foot whilst seated 
prays
Please don’t show us trotter shots…please don’t show us trotter shots…
Nah, just in the air, sort of pretending.
Just go get that ankle flexibility and strength back.
Back at physio today. He said my shoulder still not feeling 100% was a good thing as if all pain had gone after the injection there is more risk of re injuring it.
It’s now clicking when I move it. Had some more acupuncture.
Some new exercises to do. If they are OK for a week then I can try a swim (proper swim, not breaststroke).
Really starting to piss me off now. Bloody glad I’m private as trying to get all this shit on the NHS would have been an utter nightmare.
Hang in there mate, nice and easy. The merry-go-round of injured/ok/injured is no fun.
Amen to that 
BUPA sorted me a physio out in 3 working days 🪄
My exercises are killing me, but it’ll be good and working again soon enough 
That’s what I want to avoid. I want to get it dealt with and not come back, so I’m definitely taking all their advice and not pushing on through and hoping for the best.
How’s your hip?
Same, phoned Axa on a Thursday and was seen in person on the Monday. Plus the clinic I was referred to is a 2 minute walk from my house.
When I was booking my next physio the receptionist said oh you’re seeing the doctor that day, I don’t have any physio appointments nearer that time, I’m really sorry. I said don’t worry about and pointed to my house and said I can come back later.
Well I’m not really sure TBH. I was doing so much work to address the hip that I developed a lower calf (soleus) injury that stopped me running further than 7km.
So now I’ve been addressing that and it seems to be on the mend. The downside to all this that I haven’t put together a run long enough to see if the hip is getting better. It doesn’t really give me grief until about 40-45km, so it’s hard to replicate.
Physio is due later this week or or next, I’ll get him to do another hip strength test and see what he says.
I’ve given myself a bloody shin splint on my left leg. My own fault. Idiot.
Resting up now then? or swimming?
Yeah going to add in an extra swimming and an extra core/conditioning session I think and just generally keep the weight off it. Hopefully it’s not too long, I’ve got an aquathlon at the start of March and I’d like to not be a total embarrassment doing it.
Ankle update:
The more physio exercises I do on it, the worse it seems to get.
It goes up from a 2 on the pain scale to a 4 after, then down to 3 later in the day.
Wake up on a 2, exercises, back to 4 again.
I swear it’s getting no better 
This is what I was experiencing with my hip exercises. Physio gave me a variety so I’m experimenting now with what I think makes it better/worse.
I’m not just blindly doing them as before though, because something is not agreeing with me.
Same, physio gave me shoulder raises, added weight, my shoulder now clicks every time my arms moves through 90 degrees.
Doesnt particularly hurt, but doesnt seem right either