How to Prepare for Surgery: GRWM Surgical Edition! ⭐️
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Come along with me as I get ready for surgery!
There are a lot of things to think about when you're facing surgery - from getting your house ready, to checking off a to-do list, to dealing with your emotions. If you're not sure how to prepare for surgery - here are a few things I do to take care of myself and prepare for the "big day"!
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Fourteen years of pain and failed ankle surgeries brought me to 2018, when I made the difficult decision to become a twenty-seven-year-old below-the-knee elective amputee. This channel is to document my journey of amputation surgery, recovery, and reclaiming my life.
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I really love your attitude, it's positive but also realistic. Your priorities are so on point too! Major concerns are the snacks! The one thing that really bugs me is checking in for surgery and the first thing they do is smile and ask how you're doing. I tend to be honest. My last surgery I had I looked at the person and gaven her a rundown on what they were going to do. She laughed as I looked at her and said "With all that do you want to take guess at how the hell I'm doing right now?" Thankfully she agreed it's a stupid question but she's required to ask it. That was the one thing that helped me relax!
It may sound strange but I hope you enjoy yourself. I figure if it's going to happen I might as well have the best time I can have! So please accept my gifts of great vibes and healing prayers. You will do great! PEACE!
Wishing you a speedy recovery with no complications!
Also-have you ever made a video about your PTSD? If so I would be interested in watching it-but I also completely understand if that’s not something that you would be interested in posting.
Can you do a video on how you mentally prepare for the pain that comes along with surgery and how to keep anxiety day of surgery?
Yes! You need to be your most aggressive advocate in your healthcare! So glad you said it. Planning is good as well (home, car, bills, etc). Drove myself to the bank this morning, and had my alone time with powers we don’t see. Sending you lots of positive vibes to you and your team. Applesauce...yum! ❤️
Good luck, Jo, and no, the shirt looks actually kinda fancy on you! :) I like it! ♡
Wishing the best of luck with surgery and recovery. I'm hoping it's the last surgery that you will have to have on your leg. 🤞❤️
I hope your surgery heals very well, I am getting surgery in 6 days, very minor but I am still very nervous and I’ve had the same before. It’s most likely your positive attitude that has made me feel better about it, thank you xx.
I have passed out a lot on my past, so I now have a big fear of it. I had to go in for an MRI on my wrist. The numbing and the dye injection was my biggest fear and I told the whole team my worries and they were all so good about listening and keeping me calm and conscious!
Prayers for a successful surgery and a speedy recovery.
I think I'm going in for number 18 shortly and had my preop today. For me it's something completely different to anything I've had before, so though I should be a pro I'm really not, so this video is very useful. I've ordered my repeat prescriptions and the laundry is in progress. I'm also selling my house, so the open house is scheduled for when I'm in hospital!
Loveing the shirt, my wife is a terror always forgets to remove the nail polish and her rings, you never get used to surgery no matter how many you have.🤞🤞 best of luck .
Sending positive thoughts and good vibes your way! I hope you have a speedy recovery. 💕
Excellent ice cream should always be part of the preparation for big things in life.
I have learned from previous surgeries to let the anesthesiologists know I get nauseated from anesthesia and they put some kind of medicine that takes care of the nausea. You probably already know this though. I’m am having surgery again next week. Wishing you all the best on your upcoming surgery!!
Prayers for you and Brian.
I actually just had a surgery on my shoulder this past weekend and still I have so much trouble staying still so this time my landlord has basically trapped me in my apartment so I would go out a do anything that can hurt me anymore then what pain I'm already in. I can go outside but as soon as I start getting into something I basically get dragged back to my room. It's like being on lock down but for my health. I hate it but I'm actually enjoying it a lot more then I expected so I thinks it's a good thing that he is doing this for me.
I think you are taking this surgery a lot better than I did for my amputation. I also think that if you get money for your videos you deserve it cause if you help just one person you deserve it. And that one person is me. I especially liked your video on mirror therapy, it is a complicated mind thing. Its based on belief and your mind. Thank god I'm fixing to get it from a professional. I'm a veteran and work at VA and they now offer mirror therapy. I thank god and would give anything to get rid of my phantom pain. It causes more problems than people realize. Thank you for what your doing.And hope your surgery went well.Stanley Griffin
I’ve had 14 surgeries. I have another one coming up May 1st, and wisdom teeth removal shortly after that, then my second knee surgery after that. It’s hard leading a normal life while having surgeries and living at a hospital an being home bound more than not. I’m almost 24 and I feel so behind in life. It’s hard to be positive and think positive with my illnesses causing all these surgeries. I definitely need to work on my mindset; however it’s hard while enduring mental illness as well. You are an inspiration to me and I wish I had friends I could actually talk to who experienced similar thinks that I have cause I have no one to relate to which makes it harder!
Hope all goes well ❤️
Thank you so much for this Jo. I have to get a tonsillectomy as an adult, and am stressed about the amount of time I have to take off of work. This helped ease my worries. Sending all of the positive vibes your way and all the best with healing!
Best wishes for a speedy recovery
Keeping a lot of positive energy flowing in your direction!! 💕💕
I love how positive you are with all that is going on. I’m sure your recovery will be super fast like last time. Brian has got you and your online friends will try and have you both. And your fur babies. Don’t reply to any of us, just dream about Ireland over the next week and about going back and relaxing in the hills and lakes. Your probably all done now so hope it all went well. Take care the both of you. XXXXXXXXX
15 minute of straight up wisdom and excellent ideas.
love the color in your hair! it has been amazing watching your journey. Thank you for your realness- sharing your high moments and your low moments. That is SO important and I thank you for speaking about all of it.
Side note, I love you're hair and fashion sense!
Oh my goodness, thank you so much Olivia!! I have to say, no one in my life has ever told me they like my fasion sense haha!! I'm a big fan of jeans, leggings, and hoodies, sooooo....lol. I love that you said that, it is much appreciated, thank you!!
Good luck Jo!!! Wishing you a good and quick recovery. Nothing but positive thoughts your way. Stay strong, keep smiling! Much love 💕
Thinking of you, wishing you a speedy recovery!
I hope your surgery went well, and you get some much needed rest.
Prayers for a great outcome and swift healing!🙏❤ You've got this!!💪💙
Good luck Jo. I will pray for you. Get well soon.
Thos vid came at the perfect time. I'm having surgery in 2 weeks and this advice is perfect! Thanks!
Good luck / good vibes and prayers for a fast recovery 💚
All the love and wishing you speedy recovery ❤
Wishing you all the best with your surgery!
I pray that you had a good surgery and you’re recovering well 💜💜
Very informative. Fellow UA-camr support, hope you have an amazing journey here on youtube♡
Good luck with your surgery Jo.
Good luck 🍀 I'll be waiting for the update video ❤❤
Also, I have the same reaction to anesthesia too! Im always ripping my oxygen mask off thinking I'm being suffocated. I've learned to make a joke before hand with the nurses lol
I hope the surgery went well!! Much love 💕
Thanks for the video, Jo! Take good time for recovery!
Definitely sign up for an Amazon affiliate link! No cost for any of your viewers, but Amazon will give you a (small) percentage of whatever anyone who purchases anything off Amazon after using your link to navigate there. I am not explaining it well, but look into it!
Keeping you in my prayers.
Good luck!!! Wishing you the best always!
Good luck with your recovery! I hope everything went well ❤️
You got this!!! We believe in you.
Thanks for all the tips!
Are you an Amazon affiliate? I think you can get a small commission from things people buy with your link.
Hope surgery goes well Jo. Sending good and healing vibes. :)
Prayers. Well wishes. Love.
Sending you good vibes! Good luck in your recovery!
This got me pumped up for some self care. I'm sure all will go smooth and u'll be feeling better in no time :)
Good luck with surgery, sending healing hugs from England. Xx
Hope everything is going perfectly!! Wishing you all the best!
You are such an inspiration!!
Sending you all the very best wishes!!! Hope all goes very well x
Wish me luck. First thing in the morning. Not as serious but i followed your list. Thank you for the help. Lists make me feel more calm. 💙
Good Luck!!! I will include you in my prayers.
Good luck!!
good luck, Jo! im really nervous for my surgery coming up next week and this vid calmed me. so thank you!
Good luck.
Good luck Jo! 😙
BTW...how did your residual limb survive your vacation? You forgot to keep us updated 😁😁!! Very informative video. There you go again giving us hope about getting through something that can be traumatic. Thanks Jo. 🙏🙏🙏 for you on this journey!!
I'm scared to death of surgery now.I wish you well and hope it went well.
Stanley Griffin I had one a few weeks ago, and I was so terrified I sat on my hands for twenty minutes while everyone tried to convince me to let them give me an iv
Hey is prime now available in your area? With amazon prime you can get two hour deliveries on groceries and they partner with Whole Foods too so you can get some fresh stuff. I use it when I’m having a flare up.
Thanks so much for posting this, girl! Very informative. I'm actually getting surgery soon, too. I am wondering if you could explain more about what it was like to get put to sleep? This is the part that freaks me out!! Like, what does it feel like? How do they do it? What does it feel like when they put the stuff in, like do you get sleepy or is more like wide awake to instantly out? Could you have stayed awake if you would have tried or is it impossible? Haha. Basically whatever you remember about that part would be helpful. Thanks so much!
I have already had enough surgeries, thanks. But good luck to you in any case.
A true surgery story to help cheer you up.
I had to have surgery on my foot a couple of years ago. I checked into pre-op, was assigned a bed, got into bed and started preparing for surgery.
At one point the nurse came up with a Sharpee (marker) to mark the foot I was having surgery on. This is standard to avoid having the wrong foot worked on. I told the nurse that I didn't think it would be a problem and pulled my blankets up so she could see I was an amputee.
The look on her face got me to laughing. She looked like she had just committed the worst faux pas imaginable. The poor woman was so fluted she marked my foot anyway.
I had a Morton's something in my foot. Very painful, especially as I only had the one foot.
I had pins taken out of my ankle at 17. (They were put in when I was 9yo to make my ankle grow the correct way cuz it was growing wrong) and the 1# thing I learned is don’t let pain get ahead of you. Once it gets bad it can be really hard to bring it back to a manageable level.
Had to wait for my pain meds after my surgery. Didn’t have any when I was released (the pins being taken out was out patient) and I remember crying for like an hour till I got it back under control,
Hoping everything went well! I do not use Instagram but I await your healthy return. :)
Great to know I´ll struggle to cross fingers tomorrow and so on.
Sending all my love and prayers for a speedy recovery ❤️❤️
I actually came out thinking I was dead and the nurses were angels a
I had surgery on my broken ankle to fix a bone gap and ligament damage, and I just watched pitch perfect, put on my favorite clothes, and then tried to run away in a wheelchair at the hospital until my parents caught me.
Good luck
This is such a dumb comment: I've never heard anyone say "phone con" before, and I love it, and I'm stealing it.
Best of Luck
I’ve had a couple surgeries for chronic abdominal pain and I hate my anesthesiologist. It has been the same woman who has put me under every time and she never warns me before I’m going under. No count back from ten no nothing they just push the medication through my I.V. Or gas me with the anesthesia no warning and the next thing I know I’m awake in recovery with a nurse checking on me. I don’t know if this is a common thing but it’s very scary to just wake up with no knowledge of the past few hours and no warning beforehand.
Lol this is so relevant to my life recently
I think we should bring uneven wing liner into style. 😎
Oh and Amozon Prime is the bomb
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Hi again, just curious, how many amputees leave u comments and email? If they are then your doing a great service to amputees, i 'n behind you 100%, thank you. A problem I have with my prosthetic leg is my stump shrinks a lot when i wear my prosthetic leg, it swells up to. I am just now to the point where I 'm not scared to get a smaller prosthetic leg because now it doesn't dwell up as much.
I have the same issue post anesthesia with my ptsd as well :) last time I accused them of trying to kill me and trying to punch the nurse while ripping my ivs out.
I just had a revision of my amputation I'm actually typing this while in the hospital I was just wondering if you had a bone bridge or TMR ?
Colton Touvell bone bridge! I’m so sorry you had to have revision...it’s so tough. Hang in there my friend 💜
So weird, my boss had surgery today at exactly the same time as you.
For a second I was scared that you were gonna give us some INSPIRATIONAL speech about healthy food. Luckely you did not. :-D
Marianna Maroni 😂 nope! Just preaching the power of ice cream over here 😜
Dang I thought 3 surgeries was a lot but 12 omfg.
Revision surgery is the worst. But you'll get through it. You're a tough cookie. Also - there's some sweet drugs involved. Hold your head up high, girl. You got this. You're a pro.
Addendum - beautiful highlight!
I don't see a difference between no eye makeup and eye makeup
I’m 13 and I’ve had 12 surgeries not fun ☹️ but mostly minor ones.
There’s always that one numbnut, that will give a thumbs down on a video. 🤨
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The shirt is beautiful, but I think the grey color in your hair doesn't suit you so well, since you're very pale the golden blonde hair would give a little more life to your face.
I'm just talking as a hairdresser in training, but you don't have to listen to me, what gives you most happiness is what will look best!
Also, I hope your recovery goes great!
I almost always puke when I wake up from surgery.
Sending positive thoughts and good vibes your way! I hope you have a speedy recovery. 💕