 Uh-oh, oh, she's gonna fly away. Hello there, my beautiful lovely, you're fighting me again, what are you doing? Can't eat me, can't eat me. Hello there, my beautiful, lovely, talented and delightful internet friends. Welcome back to my channel. This is my co-host Sophie, who is apparently very hungry for flesh today. So there is something sitting right below the camera right now that you cannot yet see, that I am simultaneously ridiculously excited and also unexpectedly a little bit terrified of. If you're new to my channel, welcome, I am Footless Joe. My name is Joe, I'm missing a foot. I feel like context is important for this video, so for those of you who do not know my story, when I was 13 years old, I fell off a horse, I shattered my ankle, I had to have surgery, no big deal. Okay, I had to have another surgery because it didn't heal right. Then I had to have it fused because all the cartilage in my ankle disappeared and this went on for quite some time. I had a lot of surgeries, a lot of procedures, always had some ankle pain and varying degrees and it got worse and worse over the years. So by the time I was 27, just about two years ago, I made the decision to go ahead and chop it off because there was no hope left for it to be functional. Any activity that I enjoyed doing, I either couldn't do anymore or it was really, really painful to do so. I was on a lot of pain medication and sometimes it's better to let go of something that's hurting you and bringing you pain than to hold on to it just for the sake of keeping it. So I had my amputation in October of 2018. But here's the thing, guys, during all of those years of surgeries and being on crutches and whatnot, I was always able to still do most things I wanted to do except for one thing. There's one thing that I have not been able to actually do since I was 13, that I have dreamed of doing and that I've been restricted from for almost two decades of my life and it's something that I've dreamed of doing and it was a reason, it was a small reason. It was like a 2% reason. It was like the cake, not the cake. It was like the icing on top of the cake. If I had an amputation, maybe one day I'd be able to do this. And those of you who have watched my channel for a little while probably know what I'm talking about. But before I announce this thing, yes, I'm gonna do the annoying YouTuber thing where I make you wait just another second. I would like to introduce you to our sponsor today. I'm gonna need a really good hair swoosh to start this part off. No, that wasn't it. A huge thank you to Function of Beauty for sponsoring today's video. Haircare, much like skincare, is not one size fits all, which is where Function of Beauty comes in. 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I don't know if you know this, but if you are an amputee and you want to run, you're gonna need a running blade and these things are not cheap and they are not covered by insurance and I always knew one day somehow maybe I'd save enough money or raise enough money or find a grant program or something like that and then I made a friend who's about my height, similar weight, similar age, also missing a leg and happened to have an extra running blade. I am not kidding about this. I am so freaking excited. Check this out guys. I have a freaking running blade. I can learn to run. Look at all this glorious, beautiful carbon fiber. Check out that Nike tread we got going on. Side note, I never thought about needing different kinds of tread for a running blade but apparently there's different running blade shoes that you could stick on this thing depending on what kind of activity that you're doing. For those of you who have been here for quite some time, you know that running has been a huge goal of mine. It's been something that I've looked forward to when things are really rough. It's always been on my one day I will list. I just like holding this. This is just really cool. It's so cool to me that I'm going to have the opportunity to learn. So before I go any further, let me just say thank you so freaking much. I don't want to like brandish this. To my friend Anika, you can find her on Instagram under Anika the amputee for giving me one of her extra running blades. This is such an incredible gift and I hope you know how grateful I am to you truly. So let's talk about next steps with this puppy right here. So there's a few things that need to happen before I can actually start trying to learn how to run. Apparently it feels like jumping on a trampoline because these things are kind of springy when you're standing on them. It's going to be really interesting. I need a running socket because this cannot attach to my current leg. It's going to attach in the back like so and needs a dedicated socket. So I talked to my prosthetist up in Denver, Zach, and he said he would make me one. So I'm going to be going up there in the next couple of weeks. We're going to make a running blade socket. We're going to attach this puppy to the back of it. And then I'm going to try to take steps a little bit faster than walking. Now for everyone watching, I'm sure there are a few of you who are thinking, you know, I'm excited for you, Joe, but running's the worst. For instance, my husband hates running. He thinks it's the worst activity. He would rather do pretty much anything else. I know that that is the case for a lot of people. But when you haven't been able to do something, any of your adult years, any of your teenage years, I love doing things. I love being active. I love pushing myself. I get so much joy from that. And running is an activity that I've always been restricted from because before my amputation, I had a fused ankle and technically I could run on it, but it was very painful. And also it was highly not recommended to do so because I was going to damage it and wear it out faster. And so I really couldn't run. And now I have a chance. Now I do want to say that I am ridiculously excited and also a little bit terrified. This is something I've been looking forward to for so long because I am so jazzed about this that I am a little bit concerned that maybe it's not going to work out. Like maybe we won't get the right socket fit or maybe running is going to be too much pressure on my residual limb and it's going to hurt too much. I'm not going to be able to run. And all the things like the ifs ands or buts, the things that could happen are kind of going through my head. But you know what? There's no way to find any of this out without just doing it. And so fear to the side of the road. I'm going to get this made. I'm going to learn how to run and it's going to be freaking awesome. And I am so excited that you are here for this journey because I made quite a few videos recovering from surgeries when all I could do was sit on the couch and talk. And you guys were here for it then. And now I might actually be able to do one of the things that I've dreamed about for years. I can't wait to see how that goes and to bring you guys along for this journey. So with that being said, I'll be on the lookout here in a couple of weeks for getting my running blade socket and learning how to run. That's going to be coming up soon. Oh my God, I'm so excited. And thank you. Again, Annika, thank you so much for this incredible gift. Thank you again to Function of Beauty for sponsoring this video. You guys are absolutely fantastic. As I said, I would highly recommend checking them out. Use a discount code down below. And with that being said, thank you for being here. Thanks for getting excited with me and caring about this part of my journey. It means the world to me. A huge thank you to my patrons for continuing to sponsor and enable me to make these videos. I truly appreciate each and every one of you. And do you watching this video right now? I love you guys. I'm thinking about you and I will see you in the next video. Bye guys. Have her from the sky all about.