 Fix the hair position for when I wake up on camera. Just kidding Good morning, my beautiful internet friend. I literally woke up like this. Not ironically I've gotten a lot of requests for a day in the life of an amputee, what my days actually look like, and heck, why not? I've got like a fun idea, and I'm at home today, and I actually kind of like sick and don't feel awesome So I figured this would be a great idea. Now first question, why am I waking up on the couch? Like did I do something terrible? Was I kicked out the dog house? That might be the wrong phrase But no, actually Brian and I sleep down on the couch when my leg is bad last night It was really not feeling well. We got home from the Avengers premiere, which was awesome No spoilers. My little nub in here was killing me And so I needed to ice and elevate, and so I got all set up on the couch to do that He just slept down here with me, which was super sweet of him to do. First thing any warm-blooded Joe does is get some coffee Good musty bun. Never hurt anybody. So every night I set our Coffee pot here to go off at 8 a.m I sleep in a little bit now because I cannot sleep so I'm just awake for hours and hours at night So I slept in a little bit this morning, which I hate doing. I feel so not productive When I wake up like after 8, but I also need to sleep and my work can be done whenever I need to do it So that way do fall So now that I have my coffee I'll return back downstairs, but real quick I want to note something this eye walk has really helped me I'm not sponsored at all to say that first thing when I wake up in the morning I'm a couple things I'm usually in pain and I'm out of breath and I'm dizzy The out-of-breath and dizzy and in pain actually aren't due to my leg at all They're due to other chronic conditions that I have so before to get downstairs or upstairs because the living room is downstairs And the bedroom is upstairs and the kitchen is in the middle I'd have to brave the stairs on crutches trying to carry anything would be dangerous as I'm dizzy and out of breath And don't feel good now that I can actually kind of walk with the eye walk It makes things a lot safer and a lot easier where I can actually like go good breakfast and make some coffee And yeah, it's really helped so I will return to the couch with my coffee to begin my day All right, so real quick. Whoops leg keeping things before I move on So I've slept with this thing on all night, which is called shrinker, which is basically a really tight sock Usually in the morning. I will take that off and kind of let it just air out Let me like actually breathe the clean air I realize that this is probably not great for productivity, but this is an honest day in the life So this is just where I am right now when I get my coffee come back sit down I will probably watch a YouTube video or two before I actually dive into like the good stuff of the day right now My favorite to watch as I'm sipping coffee and waking up are Kaylin Nicholson Gus Johnson and Michelle B. Very different creators Let's actually start the day now. The next thing that I'll do is get set up With a heating pen because like I said, I do not feel great in the morning and he usually helps that and then I spent a few minutes Every day reading this so stoicism is a philosophy and I really like it because it's all about really understanding what we're in control of And what we're not in control of and separating emotion from logic and figuring out how to make decisions Really seeking to understand ourselves and be in control of the things we're in control of which is very few things mostly just ourselves All right guys the time has come to turn this into something more socially presentable. I'm just kidding I'm actually not leaving the house today. So there's no such thing as socially presentable and also this is perfectly socially presentable However, I am gonna go do my makeup and my hair a little bit because it helps me feel more put together I noticed that like when I actually wash my face or maybe do my makeup or you know Do something with my hair aside from throw up in a messy bun Maybe maybe not actually get more done. I'm more productive. I'm able to focus better because I've taken some time I actually take care of myself. So let's do that So here we are in my laundry room So most of my clothes live here right now because it's a lot easier than actually Carding them up two floors. I get dressed in laundry room, then I get ready in our tiny little like laundry room bathroom That's not a thing the bathroom downstairs So because of the whole missing leg situation I have a stool here that I always balance my leg on if you don't know I have a prosthetic leg We'll get to that in a second, but I can't actually use it more than like a minute at a time right now And I can't actually put my full weight on it. So So I just balance on this little puppy here and get my face done I was listening to a podcast of some kind and right now I'm listening to School of Greatness by Lewis Howe It's a really good podcast like a lot of different guests. I also really like getting curious by John Hood fan mess I mean, I said no more messy buns, but it's what we're gonna go with for today But we'll add a headband to feel pretty. Now some people have asked me like what I do for my makeup It's real simple anyone's super interested in comment and I'll like post what products I use but I'm by no means a makeup person I just kind of enjoy it. It's fun sometimes now. Let's get some work done So let's practice them walking. I'm gonna grab some water first But what I need to do essentially now is practice walking with my prosthetic leg I actually picked this up two days ago. Oh god. I almost fell. All right. We're good We're good. So I'm gonna go ahead and suit up put this on and we're gonna do up the workout this morning All right So I've actually got pretty fast pretty fast I've gotten pretty fast and getting this puppy off and on but here's essentially what I have to do This is a liner. This is what actually goes on my leg. First of all, I turn it inside out The inside is like aloe vera and actually feels nice on your skin not doing a great job demonstrating how fast I am It's stuck So this is like a silicone skin lotion, which I use to make sure that it doesn't rub too much This whole Pac-Man looking thing I put right here on my leg It's to help like offload some of the pressure because it's still super painful I had surgery six months ago had another surgery about three weeks ago and I got my leg like I said two days ago And so it's still pretty sensitive So we're still trying to figure out kind of the right way to make this not hurt so much right now I actually just put my leg in my leg that sounds weird generally There's gonna be like another liner that comes off over everything over the outside of my leg But it's so tight right now that we actually don't need that. I just remembered. I forgot my shoe Well, so I'm not the smartest person alive I need my crutches Located over there to walk now that I actually have my leg on hopping it is Simon today is to practice walking back and forth hoping to keep it looking like as natural as possible Not walking too weird for as long as I can it's probably only to be a couple minutes But I'm hoping to get maybe up to like three or four which is a little longer than I could do yesterday This actually feels pretty good today guys like it's not bad. Yeah, anyways, I won't push it too far But I'll push a little further I think I just missed a call from you. Sorry about that. Are they in like CSB format or something like that? I'll get right on it. Thanks. Bye. Well practice got interrupted So we are gonna move this train upstairs and actually start work because something came up I think I'm gonna go ahead and take off my leg because it is starting to kind of hurt a little bit I've kept it on for like seven minutes though. So that's like double the time of yesterday I'm gonna I'm gonna call that good for now. I'll actually try this again later today See how it feels then in a perfect world I would do this like three or four times a day right now just as tolerated But it's really important that I don't like really aggravate it right now because we don't send me spiraling backwards. So Let's get to work. So by the way, I can walk backwards on my I walk. Yes, I feel accomplished Sometimes I like coming up to the main level to actually get some work done It makes me feel like you know, I don't know it's just better than sitting on the sofa all day So I'm gonna get something to eat and then start Just as long as friends and family sing along And I don't need more money or faster car now Don't need a magazine to call me a superstar I'm gonna take this little house and make a hole And then I'll never have to face my nights alone Because in my heart I hate to be and on my face. I feel you breathe Next to me. So it's a few hours later now I'm gonna go ahead and move downstairs to continue working Generally, I have a desk that I work out like a normal working person here at home But it's not comfortable sit there just yet We need coffee don't we? Now this late in the day we make the good kind of coffee French press. I was introduced to French press coffee Not that long ago And it's changed my afternoons So no one else love coffee this much. I legitimately feel like it's a gift like I'm so grateful for it literally every day Yeah, anyways moving on now. So I got a lot of logistical stuff done last couple hours Now I'm gonna attend to a lot of Conversational things like replying to lots of emails and eventually I'll dive into some YouTube stuff It is definitely a dream of mine to do YouTube eventually full-time combined with public speaking full-time But that's not the situation right now And so I dedicate a chunk of my day towards Progressing that but a lot of my day is spent working on my normal job. Is that loud enough? So I'm basically constantly eating throughout the day like it's hard to find me without a snack somewhere nearby I trouble eating full meals just because that usually makes me feel sick. So Just realized probably looks like Quaker is sponsoring this I assure you they are not times now 238 in the afternoon Which means it's time for me to take a quick break from work And I am actually gonna do some looking for a date night online for us Not you and me for my husband and I and a site that I'd love to use is group on That's so good. Now group on is a site that I've actually used for a really long time to find great deals on Products and services in the area. I usually just use it to find like events to go to I've been able to go to things like spas and couple massages wine-tasting events and ballroom dancing And there are a lot of options and things that I never would have done otherwise So I'm gonna take the next few minutes to go through group on and find something for us to go do this weekend If you click the link down the description that is actually a referral code Which means that I will get a little bit of a kickback and you will get access to really cool deals It's not just events. I just like using the event section There's also deals on clothing and all kinds of online stores and all different kinds of things So definitely check it out date night bot. I hope you likes it I'm actually gonna hop on Instagram live right now to chat with you guys So he's a little bit nervous before going live and with like what if I run out of things to talk about or what if I say something stupid But sometimes I do run out of things to say and sometimes I do say something stupid I think that's just part of how it works Oh, also, I'm actually in the process of filming like a day in the life video because that was requested a lot Do you guys want to be a part of it? There you are. So this is everybody on Instagram being a part of the day in the life video So since this is an actual day in the life video This makes sense as I've mentioned before I have chronic pain and chronic migraines I was about to go ahead upstairs and hang out with my little raddies They're so cute try to spend some time with them at the end of my work day Let them go around but then my head decided to do what it does So I'll get migraines like people usually get migraines It's not like always piercing piercing pain like so dizzy and nauseous And I can't think straight and there is also a lot of pain and like sensitivity to light not really sound ever I eat really hot too, which is weird hence the change also Dog walks are my happy hour. This is a very real day in the life It's not like terrible right now, but I can feel it starting and if I don't stop it It will just keep going like pull all the shades turn off all lights that I can Show my computer screen And lay down with heating pad on so there's like heat on the back of my head the back of my neck because that's often where it originates and Hope that he goes away. This happens in varying degrees like three to seven days a week But thankfully they usually don't last I have meds they take forward to or if I don't or if it just doesn't want to respond That day it'll last like through the night into the next morning But I'm gonna go ahead and take care of this and do I need to do to rest? I'll be back hopefully soon because I have the thing to go to tonight that I'm supposed to get ready for But but I can't do it if I'm like this Which is why I end up canceling on a lot of people often which I feel bad for but That's just how it goes sometimes So I still feel pretty crappy, but the kitties have graced us with their presence They make my heart feel better even if it doesn't help my head too much Cakes can I keep your mommy company to help me feel better. I think my head is starting to ease up a little bit, which is Good news I'm gonna keep my eyes closed for another 30 minutes or so and then try to get up and take a shower Maybe Brian got home from work a little while ago He often finds me brought up on the couch like this because the migraines like we usually hit around the same time every day Just depends on the day, but this one is not getting horrible and I can feel it like starting to leave All right, we're three hours from initial migraine inception and I am doing okay now So I'm gonna go ahead and take a shower that usually helps to kind of like finish loosening things up And hopefully it'll be good to go tonight So showers usually take one in the morning and I totally skip that this morning But there are a little bit difficult not difficult, but just different missing a leg So generally I would just like stand up in the shower like anybody else But I have to sit down in a chair to shower because balancing on one leg is like way too scary and dangerous So I'd like the shower head hang down there and then everything else is kind of right within reach Shower complete now. It is time to turn this into Into this so there's one final consideration before going out and this kind of applies any day So I have the eye walk which is like the standing crutch And then I have crutches that I use since my prosthetic leg is not in working order just yet So we're going out to dinner and then a show with friends tonight And so it's always a decision which one to bring because the eye walk definitely still hurts my leg a little bit But it's so much easier to use like if we're gonna be walking around for a while or doing stuff I can keep up with people a lot easier if I'm on the eye walk But it's definitely more difficult to store and it's harder to Get up and get down. We're gonna be sitting and then standing and standing I can't put it on and off like I can just pick up crutches but tonight to get the situation I decided to go ahead and bring the eye walk. That is pretty much the day-to-day I don't live a very thrilling life, but I'm super grateful for the life that we have The friends that we have and being able to live here I hope you guys enjoyed the day in the life of a Semi-functional amputee and I appreciate you spending your time here with me. Also side note It's now four and a half hours after my migraine started. It was not bad today I was able to keep it under control and it's pretty much all gone now Which I'm so great before because it looks like I'll be able to have a good time with my friends tonight So I love you guys. I'm thinking about you and I will see you in the next video. Bye guys