Physical therapists: New York City

I haven't gotten my MRI results back yet (tomorrow, I hope), but I suspect the outcome is going to be a recommendation for physical therapy. My health insurance company's website is willing to let me search by specialty and geography (and by things I don't care about, like gender and languages other than English--if I want a physical therapist who speaks Hindi or Tagalog, they've got them), but that doesn't get me very far.

If anyone reading this has specific recommendations for a physical therapist in New York City--ideally Manhattan or the West Bronx, but if they're good anything on transit will do, and yes, I can get to Yonkers and such by bus, though it's a nuisance--please let me know.

(If you have recommendations against someone, I'd like that information too: anonymously or via the redbird <at> livejournal <dot> com address is fine.)

Suggestions of things to ask a PT before going to them are also welcome.

Thanks.

Physical therapists: New York City

I haven't gotten my MRI results back yet (tomorrow, I hope), but I suspect the outcome is going to be a recommendation for physical therapy. My health insurance company's website is willing to let me search by specialty and geography (and by things I don't care about, like gender and languages other than English--if I want a physical therapist who speaks Hindi or Tagalog, they've got them), but that doesn't get me very far.

If anyone reading this has specific recommendations for a physical therapist in New York City--ideally Manhattan or the West Bronx, but if they're good anything on transit will do, and yes, I can get to Yonkers and such by bus, though it's a nuisance--please let me know.

(If you have recommendations against someone, I'd like that information too: anonymously or via the redbird <at> livejournal <dot> com address is fine.)

Suggestions of things to ask a PT before going to them are also welcome.

Thanks.

Almost solstice: outdoors, friends

I had a pleasant couple of hours with roadnotes this afternoon. I got there late, but she seemed entirely unperturbed. We were in no hurry, but I don't like being late, and being late two days in a row makes me wonder about my scheduling skills.

We sat around in La Lanterna (cafe/restaurant on MacDougal Street), drinking tea (me) and mango soda (her) and eating tasty stuff and talking. We compared notes on relationships, and the time and energy we are spending on them, and our current attitudes towards same. I told her a bit about my trip to Seattle, and about how sweet cattitude is being. Then we walked around a bit. We ran into coyotegoth, who accompanied us to Varsano's, where we all bought sweets. They then walked me to the 14th Street station on the A, and went off together while I headed home, a little surprised to be getting home before Cattitude (who went in to work today).

There were many noisy people in Inwood Hill Park this evening, but we saw the muskrat swimming along, and a gorgeous almost-full moon. The bits of grass and clover I transplanted yesterday seem to have survived the weekend.

Almost solstice: outdoors, friends

I had a pleasant couple of hours with roadnotes this afternoon. I got there late, but she seemed entirely unperturbed. We were in no hurry, but I don't like being late, and being late two days in a row makes me wonder about my scheduling skills.

We sat around in La Lanterna (cafe/restaurant on MacDougal Street), drinking tea (me) and mango soda (her) and eating tasty stuff and talking. We compared notes on relationships, and the time and energy we are spending on them, and our current attitudes towards same. I told her a bit about my trip to Seattle, and about how sweet cattitude is being. Then we walked around a bit. We ran into coyotegoth, who accompanied us to Varsano's, where we all bought sweets. They then walked me to the 14th Street station on the A, and went off together while I headed home, a little surprised to be getting home before Cattitude (who went in to work today).

There were many noisy people in Inwood Hill Park this evening, but we saw the muskrat swimming along, and a gorgeous almost-full moon. The bits of grass and clover I transplanted yesterday seem to have survived the weekend.

A clothing grumble

I mentioned the too-large salwar I'd gotten via eBay to adrian_turtle, who suggested that I could improvise something with safety pins. That worked, more or less, so I put the kameez part of that salwar kameez on. The sleeves were too tight around, and the tight bits were made of a scratchy fabric. Not good. I tried to take it off. It didn't cooperate: the bodice was also snug, and there just was no give, and I was home alone. I contemplated going out anyway. Then I contemplated what being scratched at for a couple of hours would do to my mood, and thus to my planned afternoon with roadnotes. After briefly considering tucking a t-shirt in my bag and hoping she could lift it the salwar off over my head, I concluded that this seemed unlikely and not worth the trouble.

How would you remove a too-small tunic-style shirt (with no buttons, zippers, or other fasteners) while home alone?

Do you know how long it takes to cut through enough of the fabric of a too-snug kameez to remove it, using a pair of scissors, while you have a somewhat sore shoulder? Long enough to make me late for my rendezvous with my best friend, that's how long. Also, given the tools to hand and the difficult logistics, I didn't even try to neatly undo the seam: I cut the fabric. This means it's likely not returnable, though it might not have been anyway.

Nonetheless, I intend to write to the vendor, bassant bahaar, and complain: the combination of the pants being too big at the waist and too short, and the top being too tight at the sleeves and chest, leaves me very unhappy. The whole point of getting the outfit made to order via eBay was to avoid this sort of thing.

In the meantime, I have another salwar kameez, the one from indiashop1, a seller recommended by tnh, to try. But I'm trying it on when cattitude is home.

[I also need to call Land's End about jeans and pockets; Cattitude has suggested I ask if they make anything in this cut that does have decent-sized pockets that I can exchange these for, instead of just getting my money back. Failing that, I will ask L.L. Bean about the size of their pockets.] Add that to tomorrow's list of phone calls; I'm going to try to minimize physical exertion, still being a bit tired from yesterday, but telephone calls should be okay.]

A clothing grumble

I mentioned the too-large salwar I'd gotten via eBay to adrian_turtle, who suggested that I could improvise something with safety pins. That worked, more or less, so I put the kameez part of that salwar kameez on. The sleeves were too tight around, and the tight bits were made of a scratchy fabric. Not good. I tried to take it off. It didn't cooperate: the bodice was also snug, and there just was no give, and I was home alone. I contemplated going out anyway. Then I contemplated what being scratched at for a couple of hours would do to my mood, and thus to my planned afternoon with roadnotes. After briefly considering tucking a t-shirt in my bag and hoping she could lift it the salwar off over my head, I concluded that this seemed unlikely and not worth the trouble.

How would you remove a too-small tunic-style shirt (with no buttons, zippers, or other fasteners) while home alone?

Do you know how long it takes to cut through enough of the fabric of a too-snug kameez to remove it, using a pair of scissors, while you have a somewhat sore shoulder? Long enough to make me late for my rendezvous with my best friend, that's how long. Also, given the tools to hand and the difficult logistics, I didn't even try to neatly undo the seam: I cut the fabric. This means it's likely not returnable, though it might not have been anyway.

Nonetheless, I intend to write to the vendor, bassant bahaar, and complain: the combination of the pants being too big at the waist and too short, and the top being too tight at the sleeves and chest, leaves me very unhappy. The whole point of getting the outfit made to order via eBay was to avoid this sort of thing.

In the meantime, I have another salwar kameez, the one from indiashop1, a seller recommended by tnh, to try. But I'm trying it on when cattitude is home.

[I also need to call Land's End about jeans and pockets; Cattitude has suggested I ask if they make anything in this cut that does have decent-sized pockets that I can exchange these for, instead of just getting my money back. Failing that, I will ask L.L. Bean about the size of their pockets.] Add that to tomorrow's list of phone calls; I'm going to try to minimize physical exertion, still being a bit tired from yesterday, but telephone calls should be okay.]