Gill Hicks for 2015 I Love My Physio competition — Transcript

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1. 0:06Life changed for me in the increments of
2. 0:09just minutes and then seconds.
3. 0:12[Music]
4. 0:15I didn't know it was a terrorist bomb
5. 0:17attack till I woke up in hospital. So,
6. 0:20um, for me, for all of us, that that's
7. 0:23all it was.
8. 0:29I remember we all had a little peek
9. 0:31underneath the sheets just to see how
10. 0:33long the stumps were and what they were
11. 0:35looking like. We were already starting
12. 0:37to think, well, is there enough length
13. 0:39to make a walking a viable option and
14. 0:43for prosthetic rehab and stuff?
15. 0:46The consultant was very clear to me in
16. 0:49intensive care. He said, "You will walk
17. 0:50out of here." And I I guess for me it
18. 0:54was about trusting them.
19. 0:57So we started early in intensive care.
20. 1:00So liazing with the therapist there,
21. 1:02making sure that she could get from
22. 1:03lying to sitting and maintain our own
23. 1:05sitting balance, reaching those kind of
24. 1:08things. They concentrated on building my
25. 1:11core, building my confidence, and then
26. 1:15working on how to get my balance right.
27. 1:18It's all about trust. So, I'm looking at
28. 1:20them and having to take that leap of
29. 1:24faith, of trust that they will not only
30. 1:28ensure that I I do walk, but that if I
31. 1:33fall, they're there. I think for every
32. 1:36amput, it's an emotional time when they
33. 1:39first stand up. There's often a lump in
34. 1:42everybody's throat when that happens.
35. 1:44And then when you get your own leg and
36. 1:46you're walking around on that or two in
37. 1:48her case, you know, it is a big it's a
38. 1:50big moment because it's it's almost like
39. 1:52that's the start of the rest of your
40. 1:54life. Matt was always there and I was
41. 1:57always holding his hand and when I held
42. 1:59his hand I felt I was invincible. I
43. 2:02could do anything. He's like, "Yeah,
44. 2:04make make me run, you know." Um but Matt
45. 2:07clearly had to wean me off because I
46. 2:09couldn't live my life with Matt. And we
47. 2:11ended up um on one session in the gym
48. 2:14and he was just holding on to my pinky
49. 2:17finger and then he let go and I was
50. 2:19concentrating so hard that he just said
51. 2:22from a distance, Jill, you're doing it.
52. 2:25You've built that rapport for such a
53. 2:27long time and you've been through big
54. 2:30steps to get to where you are. And it's
55. 2:32that kind of final letting go bit. So I
56. 2:36suppose it's that you know you you go
57. 2:37from clutching to holding to resting to
58. 2:41to nothing and then they're on their
59. 2:43own. When I left hospital as a very
60. 2:46beautiful gesture, he photocopied his
61. 2:50hands and he said, "Now you'll never
62. 2:51have to worry that you're out in the
63. 2:54real world because you can just, you
64. 2:56know, put my hands up all throughout
65. 2:58your house and you'll always be okay." I
66. 3:01think she's very special. Pretty
67. 3:03remarkable lady.
68. 3:05with amaze how motivated she is and how
69. 3:09positive and how much positive energy
70. 3:12she just radiates and how hard she is
71. 3:15working and she finds nothing too hard.
72. 3:20I think for me the very point that my
73. 3:23life was saved and that I had been able
74. 3:26to go on to create another life
75. 3:29really has what still hasn't left me 2
76. 3:32and 1/2 years later.
77. 3:35She's very important to me. She's also
78. 3:38um a marker of what my body's been able
79. 3:41to do and that again I find
80. 3:44extraordinary. I managed to have 37
81. 3:47weeks of being completely mobile and
82. 3:51then the birth that we wanted at the end
83. 3:53of it. So fantastic. They expecting, you
84. 3:57know, baby that's the the happiest time
85. 3:59of their life and and when they when
86. 4:02they in pain and you help them, you make
87. 4:05that difference. They just just they
88. 4:08just so happy. And seeing that
89. 4:10difference is just amazing for me. It's
90. 4:12just such a great motivation for me to
91. 4:15keep going and working and I just
92. 4:16absolutely love my job. People like
93. 4:18Matt, people like Alina just to me
94. 4:21epitomize what it means to be a physio.
95. 4:24Say a medical role is about making sure
96. 4:27we have life. A physio's role is making
97. 4:30sure we have a quality of life. And that
98. 4:33quality to me makes the difference.
99. 4:36[Music]