A Winning Heart
Welcome to A Winning Heart conversations about being awesome with a disability and raising awareness at the same time and absolutely Yes sometimes you have to say F…..CK you to your own mindset and especially your disability!
A Winning Heart
From Bed Bound to Breaking Free: A Personal Health Journey
Recovery rarely follows a straight line, as my ongoing health journey continues to remind me. What started as knee surgery in February has spiraled into a complex situation involving a psoas impingement, tendonitis, and an unexpected hip fracture that occurred on my birthday of all days.
From my temporary bed-bound position, complete with monitoring equipment that occasionally beeps in the background, I'm sharing raw updates about my physical condition and the emotional rollercoaster that accompanies prolonged recovery. My leg stubbornly refuses to align properly, though small victories emerge – I can now sit in my chair with my leg elevated and manage a shower with accommodations. These might seem like minor achievements, but when you're navigating life with limited mobility, they represent significant milestones.
The road ahead remains uncertain. Thanksgiving has become my target for substantial improvement, with hopes that my leg will naturally touch the ground by then. My medical team is considering additional surgery to lengthen my hamstrings once we reach that point. Meanwhile, I'm working toward reducing my caregiving needs from two people to one by September 20th, and eventually eliminating the need for pain medications. Despite these challenges, I remain committed to connecting with you through both "A Winding Heart" and my new mental health podcast "She is Her." Join me on this journey of patience, persistence, and small but meaningful steps toward recovery. Your support means everything during this challenging chapter of my story.
Welcome to A Winding Heart everyone. If you hear a beeping in the background, don't mind me, I'm in quiet space, I should say that. But that's my monitor going off because, yeah, going off because, yeah, because I am temporarily, temporarily, temporarily bed bound. Geez, we talk much. Yeah, you're a motivational speaker, you should talk much, but because I'm temporarily bed bound, I have 20. And then I just put myself on mute. What am I doing? And so, because I have 24 hours, the only way I'm going to communicate with them is through a monitor that I have access to, they have access to. So, just in case you hear that noise in the background, that beeping, it's very low but I can hear it on my end. I think now I can still hear it on my end. But this whole episode is not going to be about that. This whole episode is actually an update on my house, because you guys haven't really got an update on that Now.
Speaker 1:I had knee surgery back in February, as you guys know. I. I recovered well, somebody recovered from that. Then I. I guess what I've been told is I have a psoas impingement and tendonitis going on, and so I snapped something in my leg. It went sideways. I landed up in the hospital, I tried to go to rehab. I am now rehabbing at home doing physical therapy, and I'm improving. So I am improving, but my God, it's taking forever and a day, and now we're talking the end of August as we record this. It's going to be jeez.
Speaker 1:I'm hoping to get out of this mess in November, probably around Thanksgiving. I'm hoping to get out of this mess. I can at least get in my chair with my leg up if I want to, but I'm hoping to get out of this mess, probably around Thanksgiving, out of this mess partly around Thanksgiving. I'm hoping that the week before Thanksgiving I'm able to get out of this mess, if not a couple weeks after, because I'm able to sit up with my leg popped up. My goal is to get rid of caregivers by September 20th. That's my goal. To go down to one caregiver during the day. Right now I have two and so yeah, that's it's. My life is a mess, so let's just say that. So I'm hoping to get out of this, so as in the week before Thanksgiving and maybe a couple weeks after. I don't, I don't know.
Speaker 1:The leg is slowly, slowly opening up and slowly coming down. It's slowly acting like a leg again. But it's been a stubborn mess because I fell on my birthday. I fractured my hip on my birthday. That is healing, and now we have a leg that's getting misaligned and all that good stuff. So I'm hoping by the week before Thanksgiving that I'm better. But we'll see.
Speaker 1:It's a wait-and-see game. It's a If it takes to Christmas. It takes to Christmas. At least I can get in my chair with my leg up, at least I can get in the shower with my leg up. So we're succeeding on that. But we just don't have a leg completely down yet. I'm hoping the week before Thanksgiving and I'm hoping to get off all these pain meds that I'm on the week before Thanksgiving. We'll see what happens on that one, we'll see, and so so, yeah, the week before Thanksgiving I'm hoping my leg hits the ground and it's the right leg too. So I'm hoping that my leg decides to hit the ground and then I might be having another surgery to lengthen my hamstrings after the leg hits ground. I don't know, because my surgeon doesn't want to do it yet until the leg hits the ground, but I'm hoping the week before Thanksgiving or maybe a couple weeks before Thanksgiving, the leg would naturally hit the ground. That would make my life a heck of a lot easier, but we'll see.
Speaker 1:So, that said, you can ask me all the questions you want. I'm available and I will be. So I will be available, and plus, I have my new mental health podcast too. She is her, so go find that, listen to it. Plus, I have my new mental health podcast too. She is her, so go find that, listen to it and figure it out. And then I will still have this podcast with Danielle, and I'm going to let Danielle go and let you guys go, and we'll see you next week. Thank you for following us. What the cute honey said Thank you for following us, and we will see you next week. Bye, you guys, bye.
