I’m Recovering From Surgery And Rebuilding My Next Step

Tomorrow the cast comes off, and that one moment has me thinking about everything at once: healing, mobility, patience, and what it means to live with cerebral palsy while your body forces you to slow down. I’m home after a hip replacement and hamstring lengthening, following a month in the hospital, and I’m walking you through the real in-between stage where you’re not fully “back,” but you’re finally moving toward what’s next.

We get into the practical side of post-surgery recovery: the knee immobilizer, the bandaging questions, the frustration of not being able to do much with a cast, and the relief of knowing the hip replacement feels stable. Then we talk rehab decisions that can make or break momentum, including why neurological physical therapy may be a better fit for CP than standard orthopedic PT, and how it feels to wait for answers while knowing your leg will be weak at first.

The surprise turn is that recovery is also triggering a bigger life update. I’m dropping one project and picking up another as fall approaches, and I’m even making a college major shift that feels like a full reset. If you’re navigating cerebral palsy, disability, surgery recovery, physical therapy, or any life change that demands flexibility, you’ll hear the messy, honest thought process behind rebuilding a plan. Subscribe, share this with someone in rehab, and leave a review with the change you’re trying to make next.

Transcript

Welcome Home And Quick Check-In

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Welcome to a different shape shot, you guys. I am home. My cast comes off tomorrow and then I'll be able to give you more of a life up date after the cast comes off. For those of you that do not know, and for those of you who are new to the world of sample palsy, aka C P aka the disability that doesn't stop, driving me nuts, and driving nuts. Um I had a hip replacement slash I hamstring lengthening on January twelfth, spent a month in hospital, finally made it home on February 13th, day before Valentine's. Yes, I have a Neo Mobilizer on with a A Spanish Diddy's, really can't tell. I think it's a Spanish the reason why I say I think is because they did just last time they keep doing acepanages with knee immobilizers slash knee blazes on. So I don't know. I haven't no clue what they're gonna say, small, and I have no clue as to what they're going to say in the next couple weeks because I know my leg will be weak. But what I can tell you is I'm dropping one project and picking up another as of this fall, so it's going to be interesting. I'll give you again more of a life update as soon as I can because um it's going to be a life-changing thing in a good way, not in a bad way. And so my hip, the hip replacement is still in place. I mean, I would know if it would go um out of place, but the hip replacement is still in place, so that's good. Hopefully, as I said, they told me six weeks. Well, it's been six weeks and a couple days, so we'll see what happens. Small whether they take the cast off or whether they um decide to leave it on. I don't think they will decide to leave it on. I think they um will decide to take it off, and now I have to do the um fun part of PT, which is the fun part. I mean a um arcade PT Sandy said to me already you would be um better off with a neurological PG. So neurological P D will be that will be fun. I don't know. I don't know where they put me. As of neurological PG, so we'll just see we'll just see what um I'm tired because I can't do anything with this cast. We'll just see what the neological PT says and if I have a backup plan if I choose to do that backup plan, I have a backup plan. So we'll we'll see, and we will definitely see what um they choose to do, and um the neurological PT may have a little bit more of a um aspect of a standpoint of CP than the also PD. I don't know. I don't know. They um because my surgery was ospaedic, they put me with osteopedic piece um P D. So I don't know what's going on with PT. I also don't know what's going on with something else. That's something else I have to figure out today, and yeah. So that's always fun figuring out something else. But um that will coincide with my next project starting next fall. So we'll we'll see what um project one says versus project two projects to two I'm already having in the works and projects two that there was a part twist as of yesterday, so we'll just make work within projects. I mean we're already making work within projects, so we'll just see where uh projects two, which will eventually turn into projects one, um, will lead up to and we'll just see. We'll just see it's like I'm changing my major in a totally different way. Let's just put it that way. I'm changing my major in college in a totally different way. Yes, I said college. And so let's just put it that way, but we have to do shifting, which is fine. We've done a lot of shifting over the past year, which is fine. So we'll just see what um what life brings and how life is and what life um attends to be. But just now I'm home and just know I have a lot more movement wise we hope as of tomorrow. So Danielle, do you wanna leave us out? Yeah Thank you for following us and we will see you later. Um we will be I will be more on top of everything as of next week. I will be super excited not to be bagging my leg anymore. When I say begging my leg, I mean putting trash bags over it. So we'll see what happens. And yeah, we'll see what happens. And so I'll give you guys an update as to what's going on, and we'll see you guys next week. Bye you guys, bye.