EP: 9 Getting out of the house and off to the prosthetists

[00:00:05]We've made some really good progress in the last four weeks. Um, you know, mainly there hasn't been a lot of updates because it's mainly been healing. Uh, but things are healing quite nicely. Um, thought I'd give you a little look of where we're at. Get the camera adjusted here.

[00:00:22]Okay, that should probably do it about right there. Take the shrinker off.

[00:00:30]And uh I'm really quite impressed that in four weeks uh we have done really well. Things are healing very nicely.

[00:00:41]The shrinker's been working on reducing the swelling in the leg.

[00:00:45]So uh excited. This is going to be a big day.

[00:00:51]I've met my uh prostatist once real briefly when I got the order for who I was going to and what I was going to need. I thought I'd just drop it off logistically to find out where they're where they were located.

[00:01:06]And um had the opportunity real quick to talk to him. He gave me a couple of these shrinkers to put on my leg which worked out very well.

[00:01:17]And uh they've done a nice job over this 4-week period of uh getting the swelling down. Sometimes they can be a little difficult to get back on because they're shrinkers. They're very tight.

[00:01:30]There we go. Back on the leg.

[00:01:34]And away we go.

[00:01:37]So, um, stick with me on this journey today and hopefully we come back with answers on timelines and how quick I can really hope to be in a foot. Thanks for watching.

[00:01:51]Yeah, one of the difficulties right now only having the one leg and because of the neuropathy in my other foot, I'm not very good on crutches. So, I I I can't do crutches. I just I've tried. I'm afraid I'm going to hurt myself.

[00:02:09]So, to go out of the house is quite the ordeal. I go up the stairs on my butt. I drag myself across the kitchen on my butt. And then my wife brings up the scooter to the garage. And from there out we go.

[00:02:23]So, uh, then when I get to the car, I've got to get in the car so I can keep my knee on the knee scooter and step up into the car, which is a very tall vehicle.

[00:02:35]um and get myself in. But then the first time I tried to drag the scooter in after me, I scratched my brand new car.

[00:02:43]So I was not happy. So I almost have to have somebody there to put the scooter in the car for me once I get in it. So hopefully this is only for a few more weeks till we get a prosthetic and then that problem will be solved. I'll try to document some of that as we pull out of here today.

[00:03:01]Okay guys, we're on the road. Yes, I'm driving myself.

[00:03:06]As you saw there, it's a little bit difficult to get in here, but once I'm in here, my right leg works fine, so I can drive perfectly fine.

[00:03:14]Anyway, I'm on the way to Hangar Clinic over in Louisville uh to meet Steve and find out what my prosthetic path is. So, stay tuned.

[00:03:26]We'll see what happens.

[00:03:55]Well, we kind of kind of game plan.

[00:03:57]Yesterday went very well.

[00:04:00]uh met with Steve at Hangar and we talked about the type of socket, the type of foot, so on and so forth.

[00:04:07]So, I think we've got a game plan there.

[00:04:10]And then from there, um they made a cast of my leg. Basically, what they do is they put a liner on your leg like you would wear under a prosthetic.

[00:04:23]They wrap it in saran wrap and they use an indelible marker then to mark up the uh saran wrap and then they actually form a fiberglass cast around that. And once that fiberglass cast has set up, they slide it off your leg and that indelible ink from the saran wrap imprints itself on the inside of the cast indicating where your tibia is, your knee joints, etc. Um, so they know how to cast the thing appropriately.

[00:05:01]So that's as far as we got. I go back July 1st for I'm assuming a test socket, which is a socket they make just to kind of fit up and size up and figure everything out of what's going to work best. And then if that works, hopefully in a couple three weeks after that, I'll have a foot. So, I'm pretty excited about it. So, that's uh that was the next episode in this adventure. Stay tuned and please like, subscribe, and share this with anybody you think may benefit in it or just may be interested. Thanks again and I'll see you on the next episode.