Cerebral Palsy Is A Gift With A Pink Bow

We hit pause on new releases while I deal with heavy stress, school, and medical recovery on 24-hour care until May 19. I share a real update on my hip healing, mobility with cerebral palsy, and how I’m planning future foot surgery without losing my independence. 
• Taking a short podcast hiatus to reorganise life until May 19 
• Managing stress while juggling school, home life, medical appointments and care support 
• Hip replacement recovery update and what walking looks like right now 
• Cerebral palsy gait realities and why wheelchairs and power chairs matter for long distances 
• Meeting listeners in person and remembering there are real people behind the mic 
• Foot surgery timing, Arizona heat, and the decision to delay for better healing 
• The moment I realised I broke my hip after a speech and why ER choices get complicated 
• Using humour to frame CP as “the gift that keeps on giving” 
• Plans to update cover art, the feed, and share more once I’m able 
Thank you for following us, and we’ll see you guys on the nineteenth. 

Transcript

Hiatus Announcement And Why

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Good evening, you guys. Welcome to Ask When. And I'm just gonna be brutally honest with you. Um, until I get my life reorganized, which means off 24-hour care starting May 19th. I and Danny already knows this, um, there won't be a podcast episode. Um I'm going on a little hiatus because I am so stressed out, it's not even funny. I have too many things. Life is life and I have too many things going on in my personal life to even think about my life, let alone to think about my work life, let alone a podcast, let alone, um, and I am actually trying to concentrate on school slash trying to concentrate on my house. So um May 19th is not that far off. Don't worry, I have so many episodes that you guys can go back and listen to, but um it's going to be um that until I can get my life reorganized. And trust me, I have plans once I come off 24 hour care. As far as my hip, my hip 12 weeks in is still in place, still kicking. I am walking, walking short distances. Um a lot of you, well, Dan, y'all know this, but a lot of people don't know that um CP has a wonky gate. Danny Yell has it, I have it, everyone has it with CP. So I can't walk long distances. Me walking in an airport, no way. Me using a power chair, me using a normal chair in the airport, yes no way. So I have always used a wheelchair, uh power chair, well, lately a power chair, um lately a power chair, but I have always used a wheelchair for long distances. So it's um so I can always I can only walk short distances. And when I say short distances, I mean to my living room, and that's it. But it's not like you'll catch me walking mall. You will catch me in a wheelchair speeding down a um mall, but other than that, and that's why I make a joke when I'm coming to either pod fest or podcast movement or either um empowered podcasting, which I may go to. It um I always make a joke. Chase the woman empowered channel because that is me. And when people meet me in person for the first time, those of you who are OGs to ask when say, and I'm not kidding you, when it's you it's truly you, you are in the wheelchair, you do have simple palsy, and they give me a hug, and basically person feels because they're like, it's truly you. We've heard your voice for so many years now on and off. It's like they don't understand the um there's a person behind the mic. There's actually two people on this podcast. One is more silent than the other, only because she's just a little teensy weensy bit afraid of podcasting, but she loves it and I love her for trying it. But Danielle, I'm speaking to you. I don't know if you can understand that, even though you're on mute right now. I know you are, but um I got Danielle behind Mike because I figured it would be a good little experience for us. So um, as I said, an update on this whole foot thing. Um I told you guys that I was having foot surgery. Well, I still am, but I'm waiting till either um the winter or it will definitely be done next summer because I can't walk with my toes toes cold underneath me. No way. So and if you have been to Arizona in the summer, you know it gets extremely hot, like 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the middle of the day in the summer. So you're stuck inside anyway. Yes, we play the opposite game here in Arizona. We go outside in the winter. We it's beautiful in the winter down here. So that's why we have a lot of snowbirds down here moving. They have houses down here and a house up in Minnesota, let's say, or a house in Aspen. Um, and they flip-flop when it's all w all winter they come down here when it's their um winter, they're down here when it's their summer, they're home. So yep. So we have a lot of stomachs. So next summer I might be having foot surgery. I hope I'm having foot surgery. I hope to start this journey in probably April, but definitely May. So yes, I'll be stuck in the bed on my birthday, but that's okay. Um a birthday's just a birthday. So and uh maybe my 40th birthday that I'm stuck in bed, but we'll figure that out. And so um a birthday's just a birthday to me, and so if I'm stuck in bed, I'm stuck in bed. So I can't wait the first five months, as I said, but I'm also meeting with uh the um podiatrist in his office on this upcoming Wednesday at 1130. So I will see what he has to say, see what my options are, but I'm just holding off and giving my chance, giving my hip a chance to heal, giving my knee another summer to heal, giving my um hamstrings a chance to heal before I go back on the knife. Because um, as people said, after my back surgery, we need when we needed you completely healthy before we send you on the knife. And that was my church family now. My church family said that because they were in the fact that I'm still on the plans for the people list, episcopal plans for the people list, and they were playing for me, they still do, and it's like, oh my god, can you get me off that list now? And I keep promising you guys this paint that happened on my birthday, which I will find in my email, I will clone. And so maybe I'll do that as a bonus episode tomorrow. And I keep promising that you I'll update the cover artwork, which I still haven't done yet. It still says a different shape heart on it, and then um I will um I will update the cover artwork, I will also do um change the name on the feed. I will also um update the speech on the podcast feed so you can hear what I said the day my hip actually broke the day because I was getting ready to go do said speech, and this was already planned out. I already had meetings about this speech. This was all planned out when um I broke my hip. So yeah, that was fun in the end of my speech. My knee raised in pain. Yeah, that was fun. But anyway, welcome to CP talk about baptism by fire, quite frankly. End of a speech, you realize that you broke your hip. You should have gone to the emergency room. Yes, I should have gone to the emergency room, but on a good day, who wants to hang out in the emergency room, especially on their birthday? I certainly don't, even on a good day, on the good night, I certainly don't want to hang out in the a little bit. I would have had um I would have had the ambulance called from church, I wouldn't have gone home and my um my church family nor nor visiting angels wouldn't let me um gone home if they knew that um if they knew I broke my hip. And in fact, I said if anything major happens to me, you're welcome to call um the ambulance from church. The closest hospital to them would um the hospital that I actually like, so uh the hospital to me that it's close to me that the 9101 will take you close to your house. I don't like so the hospital close to my church I actually do like, so they would um probably take me after them, but so that's why I'm delaying foot surgery till 2027 because I need to give my body a fighting chance to heal, and I don't want to be in the stuck in bed, I don't want to be in pain on my birthday, I don't wanna be um I don't wanna be sitting on, I wanna be wished a happy birthday, but I wanna be sitting on, I don't wanna be being found. I don't want to be um in pain on my birthday, so I'm delaying it until 2027, which um I am uh uh hopefully thinking that's not my fortieth birthday, but if it is, I'm doing it as a gift myself. I did a hip replacement as an only birthday present to myself because the incident happened on my birthday, so it yeah. So that was my only birthday present. It just happened in January. It just happened in fall to fall in January, so um, not on my actual birthday, so I may be having foot surgery if everything goes according to plan and I can hold it off to 2027. My plan is to um have foot surgery on my actual birthday. So or maybe the end of May, the beginning of June. The earliest it would be the end of May, the beginning of June. The latest it would be is my birthday, which is in the middle of June, the 22nd of June. So it would be the um 22nd of June or the um middle of May to the end of May, so um because I'm gonna try to hold off to my birthday and send myself a little knife for my birthday as a birthday gift to myself to make my toes flat again and being able, I'm always trying to keep myself independent, and I'm always trying to keep myself happy and healthy, but um excuse the coughing attack the moment I say that happy and healthy, and then I cough into a podcasting mic, which is actually my phone. And so great. And so that's that, but I will um I will keep you guys updated on the foot surgery as soon as May 19th hits, we'll be back on the podcast and mic. So we'll be good to go, but I will keep you guys updated either via Facebook or all my social medias on foot surgery, and um I will definitely keep you guys up to dated on foot surgery on podcast. So the latest it will be is the um beginning to the middle of May of 2027. I'm sorry, that's the last the latest it would be is my actual birthday, which would be Tuesday, June 22nd, um, 2027. So yeah, and so then I would be be required 24 hour care again and be been found for five months, but I that's the gift that keeps on giving. I have the gifts that keeps on giving, and it's wrapped in a cute little pink bow um named C P. And Danielle also has a gift that keeps on giving, and hers is wrapped in the pink bowl with a snowboard on top, also named C P. So it's um well mine should be wrapped in a gay rainbow bow at this point, but um mine is wrapped in the pink self-confident bow with the rainbow bow, the rainbow bow of gay tailing behind the pink bow of self-confidence. But it's the gift that keeps them giving, as someone told me on Reddit. So I'm stealing a tagline from these on Reddit when I said CP and Bunnys, and they won't have this. They go, I do CP is a gift that keeps on giving, and it's wrapped up and kissed with mine is kissed with two bowls. What happens to be a rainbow bowl standing for gay rights, which, as I said, rainbow for the gay flag, and pink bowl of self-confidence on top. The other one happens to be a pink bowl with self-confidence, maybe with snowboard on top. I think the other pink bow with of self-confidence would say yes. I think she would say yes. She's probably nodding yes on the cell phone right now. Yeah. Okay, okay, there she goes. There she goes. The pink the other pink bow would have the have the charm of the snow on top. Okay, think both of self-confidence. But basically think of CP this way. Think of it as okay, you get a birthday present or Christmas present. It's wrapped in a box. See whatever that gift is in that box is CP. Think of CP of the gift that keeps on giving, and mine just happens to be wrapped with two balls on top of it. Dandy L's just happens to be wrapped with one ball with a charm of a snowmond on top of it. Because, of course, we don't let CP stop us, even though CP tries on a daily basis. Oh my god, CP tries on a daily basis, but it's okay. It's okay, and so we're gonna let you guys go. We'll see you on May 19th, and I'm going to upload this episode right now, and I hope you guys enjoyed another fabulous episode of Ass Win, aka Diffin Shape Taunt, and I will upload the cover artwork when I get a chance between school and all these medical appointments and physical therapy outpatient again for my hip and for CP in general. So I we appreciate you guys. Thank you for following us. Danielle, do you want to leave us out? Thank you for following us with the cute pony said thank you for following us, and we'll see you guys on the nineteenth. Bye you guys.