We are so similar! I had 9 surgeries in 10 years… LBKA. Being pain free that first day was wonderful. It’s been a rough year but so worth it! I’m walking pain free for the first time in years and years. Thank you for your informative and funny videos 😘
You sound like my uni-legged twin! I had so many surgeries on my leg foot, that now I love knowing that it's literally impossible to have surgery on that foot again.
Hello 👋! I’m grateful that I was well prepared for amputation surgery because of you going through it a few months before I also decided to do it! My last memory before I lost my leg was telling my doctors that I wanted to dance and ski again. It was so beautiful! I also remember my Mom making prayer hands at the doctor before they wheeled me away. The doctor told her that they did pray for me and that eased my nerves a lot. Thanks for the shout out too! Yeah I woke up from surgery in sooooo much pain all the nurses started running to give me medications in recovery. I was scared and just wanted to see my Mom but they told me that I needed to be in less pain before they wheeled me to the room where my parents were.
I'm glad you finally got to ski again. It's been such a long time in coming. I wish the nerve block had worked for you. Not having it work is a terrible way to wake up.
Hi, thanks for your info. I’m an aka and my circumstances were slightly different, it was not a choice. When I came to after the op I was back in my ward, a cocktail of drugs for pain etc going directly into my stump. I was also fitted with a catheter, which was just as well, as I was complete bed rest. I remember the first time I was hoisted out of bed into my wheelchair and physio visits. I was kept in that hospital for about a week before I was transferred to another hospital for rehab. The catheter was left in for weeks and as I spent more time in my wheelchair I found it very uncomfortable. I had a lot of very strange “dreams” during my stay in the hospital I had surgery but when I came to I touched and stroked Sallie (my stump) yes, I gave her a name . I had and still have phantom pains from the very beginning, strange feelings.
That's so hard, not having any choice at all. My leg definitely had to come off, but I was grateful that I had some notice to prepare for surgery. That'd be so much more intense without that advance notice. Thank you for sharing your story. I hope things are going better now.
There is something to be said for having many months even years to prepare. A very different experience from having an accident and waking to a lost limb. I tend to get about 24 hours out of the nerve blocks. I react poorly to the preop sedatives and refuse them. That means I’m more alert post op. Oh the nausea. I get that in spades. Zofran seems not to help at all.
I think you're right- having time to prepare has got to be such a different experience. The Zofran made no perceivable difference for me. Sounds like that's something we have in common.
I'm so sorry to hear that. I've often reflected, as I've made videos about elective amputation, that it'd be so different if it was an accident or other emergency. I hope you're doing okay now.
@@StephaninasAmputeeAdventures I am doing pretty good now. Just trying to get the best fit possible. It has taken over a year but I think I am on my way
i had two stents put in before i could even have surgery never saw the operating room i guess i was already under when i got there more than likely a good thing from what my wife tells me guess i wasnt a happy camper i dont remember much of my 18 day hospital stay
Sometimes it's a mercy not to remember everything. I can't even imagine what it was like a hundred fifty years ago when limbs were amputated during the Civil War without modern anesthesia.
That's a great video to give someone an insider's look at what amputation day will be like.
I'd call it a walk through, except no walking is required.
We are so similar! I had 9 surgeries in 10 years… LBKA. Being pain free that first day was wonderful. It’s been a rough year but so worth it! I’m walking pain free for the first time in years and years. Thank you for your informative and funny videos 😘
You sound like my uni-legged twin! I had so many surgeries on my leg foot, that now I love knowing that it's literally impossible to have surgery on that foot again.
Hello 👋! I’m grateful that I was well prepared for amputation surgery because of you going through it a few months before I also decided to do it!
My last memory before I lost my leg was telling my doctors that I wanted to dance and ski again. It was so beautiful! I also remember my Mom making prayer hands at the doctor before they wheeled me away. The doctor told her that they did pray for me and that eased my nerves a lot.
Thanks for the shout out too! Yeah I woke up from surgery in sooooo much pain all the nurses started running to give me medications in recovery. I was scared and just wanted to see my Mom but they told me that I needed to be in less pain before they wheeled me to the room where my parents were.
I'm glad you finally got to ski again. It's been such a long time in coming.
I wish the nerve block had worked for you. Not having it work is a terrible way to wake up.
Danke für die gute Info 😘 alles gute für dich
Thank you for doing this. You are giving people (myself included)❤🕉🙏
My pleasure! I hope it helps!
Hi, thanks for your info. I’m an aka and my circumstances were slightly different, it was not a choice. When I came to after the op I was back in my ward, a cocktail of drugs for pain etc going directly into my stump. I was also fitted with a catheter, which was just as well, as I was complete bed rest. I remember the first time I was hoisted out of bed into my wheelchair and physio visits. I was kept in that hospital for about a week before I was transferred to another hospital for rehab. The catheter was left in for weeks and as I spent more time in my wheelchair I found it very uncomfortable. I had a lot of very strange “dreams” during my stay in the hospital I had surgery but when I came to I touched and stroked Sallie (my stump) yes, I gave her a name . I had and still have phantom pains from the very beginning, strange feelings.
That's so hard, not having any choice at all. My leg definitely had to come off, but I was grateful that I had some notice to prepare for surgery. That'd be so much more intense without that advance notice. Thank you for sharing your story. I hope things are going better now.
There is something to be said for having many months even years to prepare. A very different experience from having an accident and waking to a lost limb.
I tend to get about 24 hours out of the nerve blocks. I react poorly to the preop sedatives and refuse them. That means I’m more alert post op. Oh the nausea. I get that in spades. Zofran seems not to help at all.
I think you're right- having time to prepare has got to be such a different experience.
The Zofran made no perceivable difference for me. Sounds like that's something we have in common.
I had an emergency amputation this way looks so much better than mine
I'm so sorry to hear that. I've often reflected, as I've made videos about elective amputation, that it'd be so different if it was an accident or other emergency. I hope you're doing okay now.
@@StephaninasAmputeeAdventures I am doing pretty good now. Just trying to get the best fit possible. It has taken over a year but I think I am on my way
i had two stents put in before i could even have surgery never saw the operating room i guess i was already under when i got there more than likely a good thing from what my wife tells me guess i wasnt a happy camper i dont remember much of my 18 day hospital stay
Sometimes it's a mercy not to remember everything. I can't even imagine what it was like a hundred fifty years ago when limbs were amputated during the Civil War without modern anesthesia.
Did you get to keep your amputated leg in the form of ashes?
No, they never gave it to me. I think it's the hospital's policy.
@@StephaninasAmputeeAdventures heard some hospitals leave that option open
Amputation day is stressful.
Yep!
today feb 14 2024 is my first amuversery!
Happy ampuversary! Congrats on making it through the first year!
Hope lol