A Winning Heart
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A Winning Heart
Healing Through Hardship
I'm currently in a rehabilitation facility after experiencing a psoas impingement in my right leg, a painful complication related to my cerebral palsy and recent knee surgery. The impingement, causing my leg to not fully extend to the ground, came after breaking my femur which required six weeks of non-weight bearing and triggered CP-related muscle tone issues.
• Explaining my journey from knee surgery to emergency room visit to current rehabilitation
• Detailing the psoas impingement condition and how it's affecting my mobility
• Undergoing intensive physical and occupational therapy six days a week
• Preparing for possible surgery if the impingement doesn't resolve naturally
• Dealing with insurance requirements to try all conservative treatments first
• Managing muscle spasms alongside the impingement
• Finding parallels with sciatica and understanding that pain more deeply now
• Maintaining positive spirits despite unexpected health challenges
• Looking forward to eventually returning home with improved mobility
Thank you for following us, and hopefully I'll be back home and back to normal when we catch up next week.
Welcome to A Winning Heart.
Speaker 1:You guys, if you hear something beeping in the background, don't mind it. I am in a weird spot in my life right now. I blame figuratively. I had to in February. I had knee surgery, as you guys know. So due to I'm just going to cut to the tracer due to cerebral palsy, I had that knee surgery. Well, due to cerebral palsy, I had to land up going to the emergency room a week ago, thursday, and I thought I dislocated my hip. Well, it turns out I had an impingement, a psoas impingement in my leg, which I'm still dealing with, which then, after the hospital, they said you've got to go to rehabilitation, which is where I'm at now.
Speaker 1:Now, has this impeachment gone away? No, will it go away. Will it go away way, will it go away? I'm asking myself that question as I present this to you guys. Yes, it will go away, but will it go away and win Stannis and everyone else's Stannis? No, it will not go away and win Stannis and everyone else's.
Speaker 1:Standards are made. I have aides with me 24-7 up here and I up here, being in rehab, I am working hard every single day to get better, to get the impingement to go away and basically what this impingement is doing. It's affecting my whole right leg. My whole right leg won't go down to the ground and so, basically, if they, if the rehab can't get, agree with, I told you that they broke my femur, which breaking my femur led to me not weight bearing for six weeks, and so that's why my leg thinks it belongs up in the air right now and it's more CP tone thing than it is a broken femur thing. But I think breaking my femur had something to do with it. But yeah, I just think breaking, I just think it's all the elements for disaster put in place the surgery, the C diff, the impingement. The last straw was the impingement. And so, yes, I do have help here 24 7. Yes, I do have, yes, I'm working on it.
Speaker 1:Will this impendiment go away in the um near future? No, will it go away in a wince? I want it to go away now. So does everyone else. So, will it go away now? No, will it take many, many months to heal? Yes, Will it require surgery? I'm 99% sure that it will and we'll just deal with it as it comes.
Speaker 1:On top of that, I'm having muscle spasms on top of the intonations, which is really fun and this is the first really really bad muscle spasm, really bad muscle spasm, really bad impingement to send me sideways, send me to the hospital itself and then send me to a rehab center. And we're trying to work on everything that we can and if it requires surgery, it requires surgery. So that's that and I'm just trying to be positive and trying to be look on the bright side of things. But if this impingement doesn't go away, I will have to have surgery, which means releasing the muscles to make the impingement go away or somehow make the impingement go away. So, yeah, that's my story. I'm sticking to it.
Speaker 1:I wish I wasn't in rehab. I wish I wasn't listening to incredibly loud beeping noises, but yeah, so I will let you guys know when I get closer to being home and the outside. I was down the outside, I was home. I told her that I was in the rehab. She might, might have not paid attention to that one, but but anyway, I'm fine.
Speaker 1:It's just the stupid impingement. It's just a stupid impingement that now, to those of you that have sciatica, I know exactly how you feel. It's just a stupid impingement that won't let me live my life. But we're going to get through this and we're going to be positive and we're going to be. It's going to be interesting. It's been an interesting journey and it's been a very interesting journey since surgery and it's just going. This is going even more interesting. But yeah, but other than that, I'm doing well and and considering in good spirits, apparently'm in good spirits, apparently considering I'm in good spirits. If it wasn't for the impeachment, I would be home and I would be living my life.
Speaker 1:But oh well, cp plays games on me and it's the domino effects that leads to more and more hospital stays, more and more insurance, more and more aspects of what's going on. And they just blocked me in my schedule for tomorrow, my schedule for tomorrow, which means they make me do physical therapy five, five, no, six days a week, make me do physical therapy and occupational therapy six days a week and to try and get the impingement to go away. But if it doesn't go away, as I said, I will have to do medical intervention. But the funny thing is and this goes for everyone insurance wants you to try everything before they give you the blessing and the go-ahead for medical intervention. But medical intervention means surgery, but at the same time it's surgery, surgery, and we'll cross that bridge when it comes to it. So I'm going to let Danielle leave us out and then we're going to call it good.
Speaker 1:Thank you for following us. What's a cute blonde, he said on the other side. And if I sound terrible, you guys, that's because I'm on a bunch of pain medication for my impingement. So, to those of you who have sciatica, I know exactly how you feel. For those of you who had stiff hips, I know exactly how you feel, and so and I always had the mentality of, oh, my CP isn't that bad.
Speaker 1:Oh, cp gave me a wonderful bunch of money this year, so it's CP goes. We'll show you. We'll show you how bad it could get and we'll put you in. We had three times once in 2024, twice in 2025. And so I want this all to be over. But, that being said, I will catch you guys next week. Hopefully I will be here, hopefully I will be home. And so, yes, and so hopefully I won't be here, hopefully I will be home and hopefully I will be back to where I want to be, which is two legs on the ground, living my life and doing fantastic things. But, as I said, as we said, thank you for following us and we'll catch you guys later. Bye, you guys, bye.
