 Guys, it's today. I am finally getting my stitches out. Good morning beautiful friends. I say finally It's only been two weeks. It's been two weeks exactly since surgery, but since my bandages fell off two days after surgery I've been able to like see the wound It's been open air a lot of the time just because I mean they said that was okay to do so I've seen the stitches I've seen how well it's healing and I have had so many stitches in my life And I've had them taken out so many times that it has taken a lot of self control to not take them out Myself and don't worry I didn't do that, but it would have just been so simple and felt so good to have them out of there But I was a good patient. I did what I was supposed to do and I waited so here's what we're looking at Also side note if you don't like incisions or medical stuff, I'm gonna definitely show that in today's episode So just beware cover your eyes if this is not your cup of tea. I've gotten a little bit better at like wrapping it You see how it like sticks out like points out like that. I hate how that looks I've been trying to perfect the art of wrapping a Nubbin or a stump slow and steady slow and steady wins the race I feel like this looks exponentially better than last time and yes I am aware that it kind of looks like I'm gonna go with the descriptions of it I prefer some people have called it a heart. Yeah, we'll go with that or or a peach. It also kind of looks like a butt Okay, I'm well aware of that But that is mostly because of the swelling and also there's a scar down the middle of it Which kind of causes that like folding in I really hope that goes away. It looks weird I get it so something I am really excited about actually after seeing how many like came out of the surgery Is how small it is in comparison to like how it was even a couple months ago A big issue with having limbs fitted for prosthetics is that they're like constantly changing size, right? Well, mine is a lot smaller than it was when I had I feel like this was so long ago Do you guys remember Christopher Walken our good buddy my prosthetic leg here? We have him It's awesome looking down and actually sitting two feet. So just as kind of some reference This was my previous socket So this is like How small my leg is in comparison to it now Like it should be a super tight fit and Look at all this space like I could stick my hand in there literally with my leg. It's crazy how much it's shrunk Yeah, that socket is like huge now in comparison And so this means that when I get recast from my new prosthetic Hopefully in a couple weeks There won't be so many constant modifications to make like my leg is still going to change size Change shape over time, but it's not going to be so drastic Which will totally save me time money trips to the prosthetist I'll still have to go, you know Like on a weekly basis for a while to get it adjusted correctly And also will save me from having to have a totally new socket as soon So that is that is good news because like I don't know if you can see it's like it's actually not that swollen Like compressing it down in a shrinker or a liner for a leg. It's actually going to get pretty small So that's awesome news. I've also thought for weeks. It looks super weird It's like my skin just stopped being skin right there I think that's where they reattached the muscle hence why there's like An indentation in my leg. This is a weird journey guys. It looks odd But I love it and I'm going to embrace it in all of its weirdness. All right, so check it out guys I have two stitches left over here this one literally fell out swear to god I did not take that myself and then I have four over here. They're all going to come out I was a little bit worried about all of this um swelling. You see others like still giant bumps here Oh Hi gags. Did you just want to interrupt that shot? So that's where the verses were that's where they were cut out of But it's pretty much stayed the same size ever since I took the bandages off I mean the swelling's gone down a little bit in like the surrounding area It is worrisome when I see like two giant lumps still there But I have to tell my brain that like calm down joe. It's just post recovery surgery dead swelling I'm sure everything's fine. I'm actually not sure because I am a worry wart Let's head up to denver and see what my doctor thinks. This is what it looks like to try to crutch carrying things and carry a camera talent Nope, never mind Stitches out steri strips on Mm. Doesn't that look delicious So what's next? I am waiting for the swelling to go down on my stump And then I wait till those steri strips come off in like a week a week and a half and we should be good to go It's kind of a figure it out as we go thing pain wise But I'm meeting with a prosthist on monday and I might be meeting with another one later in the week Kind of just to discuss different options and then I might have a leg back guys It feels really nice to have the stitches out of there It could be ever had stitches in and you can like feel them in your skin. Yeah, I'm really glad those are gone But don't you sweat you're pretty skin Because I melt away for it sinks you and you dream about this very Thanks for coming to denver with me and my doctor's appointment. I love you guys I'm thinking of you and I'll see you in the next video. Bye guys