I got out of bed and made it a lil ways w a walker today. Gravity hurts, but I moved.
Progress is progress, even if itâs only a little bit at a time.
Iâm currently stuck on a 12 hour trans pacific flight. Iâm thinking if I could take off one leg and stick it in the overhead bin I would be a lot happier. You lucky â â â â â â â . I could fit more useful â â â â under the seat in front of me. Like food to take the place of the cheese and mayonnaise sandwich they gave us as a âmeal.â
Things are improving. Still in the hospital. This one is healing much better than the last. The biggest trouble is the phantoms. I canât wait to start mirror therapy. My brain doesnât wanna listen when it thereâs no foot to act as a lightning rod.
Probs transfer to PT on Monday. Canât wait. Iâm so sick of these damned inflating beds trying to tip me out.
Something you might want to try when you get a chance, there is an Oculus/Gear VR app called Perfect Beach. Itâs not much, just a sitting at the beach relaxing type experience, your avatar canât move, but you can look around and enjoy the sceneryâŠanyway, point is your avatar in the app is shown from the neck down, and my guess is that could likely help along with the mirror therapy. Maybe not, who knows, but I thought it might be worth checking out.
Iâve tried it myself a couple of times, and I gotta admit, even if it doesnât help with your phantom sensations, it is pretty relaxing. Iâve fallen asleep a couple of times when using it.
That actually sounds pretty neat. I love stuff that helps me sleep.
I would be very interested to know how the mirror therapy works out for your phantom pain. I remember watching a YouTube video on mirror therapy and found it super fascinating.
From what Iâve seen mirror therapy even works if youâre not an amputee. Iâve seen on TV before where people would hide their arm behind a partition and it would be replaced by a rubber one, and then someone would stroke both their real arm and fake one for awhile, and after they started getting used to the sensation, they would bring out a hammer and smash the rubber hand, and everyone that went through that process said they felt actual pain in their hidden hand when the fake one was hit.
âŠyeah, here it is.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/brain-games/videos/rubber-hand-experience/
what is mirror therapy?
Itâs where they take a mirror and place it in front of you in such a way that one limb is reflecting to where it looks like you have a matching pair. It sounds silly and simple but it does a pretty good job of tricking your brain into thinking your amputated limb is back and working the way it thinks it should. Itâs amazing to think of how much your vision is utilized when your brain creates your bodyâs sense of self.
Where is the beer?
Get better soon!
The beer is at home waiting for me. Iâm currently on too many opiates and under medical supervision⊠But alcohol IS a vasodilator! XD
Also, thanks for the well wishes, hoss.
OMG for the first time ever my phone tried to autocorrect âhossââŠ
Update: today they took the wound vac off, removed the sciatic nerve block, and fitted me w a âstump shrinkerâ. Gonna be wearing this doubled elastic stocking over my stump for what they suggest as 23/7 for the next 3-6 months. The incision is clean and healing well, sorta looks like Oogie Boogie.
Tonight is my last night in the hospital, tomorrow I get shipped out to PT much closer to home for a week or so, and then we go from there, probably outpatient PT 3x/week for a while. Met who will likely end up as my prosthetist, nice young lady.
Progress.
So, thanks to some complications w my insurance company, it took until today to actually get me shipped out to PT, but I am typing this from the back of the ambulance en route. My plan is to get to the PT joint, prove that I can bathe and cook and get in/out of a car just fine, meet w some specialists about the Ghost of Left Legs Past, and be home w my doggie by weekâs end.
Glory, glory hallelujah.
Oh, a quick correction: my stump looks more like Hexxus from Fern Gully than Oogie Boogie.
Should have signed up for Amazon PrimeâŠ
Letâs all agree that there are some things in the world that are too awful to even joke about. And Fern Gully is one of them. Please donât speak of it again.
Ooooph⊠If by âterribleâ you mean âhorrifying in a way that haunts one throughout their life whenever they turn the key or spit gum on the sidewalkâ then, yeah, absolutely terrible. That film has haunted me ever since I was wee. Otherwise, we can agree to disagree, but either way, no need to dwell on it.
Are you going to start assimilating things so you can be twice as powerful and twice as deadly? Also I canât bring myself to dislike a movie that has the legendary Tim Curry in it too much, thatâs just not right.