 Hello, my beautiful internet friends, welcome back. I wanted to share with you guys a little bit about how the last week has gone. I came off of one of my medications, which was really a lot more difficult than I expected it would be, and I also got to go see my puppies with live footage. A lot of people have asked me if they noticed my amputation, and I will be answering that question in this video. But first, a little bit about the last week. So I've been on two medications for pain since surgery. If you don't know, I had super, super high tolerance to pain medications, and the really strong one ran out. I didn't ask for it to be re-prescribed because I didn't want that medication in my system for that long, but holy crap, I didn't realize how much it was doing because coming off of it, I'm in a significant amount of pain, and it's hard to get it under control with just my normal medication because my body's so adjusted to that and it's like just two weeks after amputation. I've been practicing sitting up for like 10 minutes at a time or 15 minutes at a time, 20 minutes at a time if we're getting like wild and crazy up in here. It's going slowly, but well, feels silly to be practicing sitting, but you know what, you gotta start somewhere. That is where that's where I'm starting. First of all, I know it looks like I've been wearing the same shirt for days. It's because I have been. Second of all, I can't seem to get away from this problem. I have learned my lesson hopefully this time. I want to take an ice pack off the end of my residual limb cast, my little nubbin that's casted, right? And it's safely on a pillow. You'd think there's no way the cast could come off. I went to pull it off and like this just slipped off so easily. I really want to take my leg out all the way and see how it's doing, but don't worry, I'm not going to go against medical advice like that. I'm going to slide it back in. It's not going to feel great. It's actually not, it's not terrible. We got it back in there safely and I will be using super attractive belt strap when I get up and move because it's going to, it's just going to plummet off my leg next time I stand up. Today is the day that I decided I wanted to like actually put makeup on my face because that's fun for me sometimes. I thought I was strong enough to do it. We're going to see if I make it through. My skin has suffered from being indoors laying down on a pillow for three weeks straight. First of all, I've changed an entire skin tone from not seeing the sun. The big question every day is whether or not I should use eye shadow. Like if I'm actually doing my face, put like foundation and mascara on most days and I'm not recovering from surgery, but I don't do this. Do I have the energy to do it still while standing up without passing out? We're going to find out together. All the dark stuff got right here and I was doing it over here. I don't, I don't know how that happened. Like oh, if you're far enough away. We're just going to call that good for today. So I am now a little over three weeks out from surgery recovery. And I think you can kind of tell from even the progression of those video clips that I am feeling a lot stronger. I still have to take breaks from like even sitting up during the day. Like I have to lay down sometimes. When I hit like the three week mark after surgery, I really feel like I turned a corner. My body started to feel so much stronger. So let's get to the title of this video. What about those puppies? Welcome to the horrendous lighting of my bathroom. I have not seen my puppies in three weeks. They have to stay away while I'm recovering from surgery cause you know, they're 80 pound dogs and like jumping on things. Our puppy monkey ended up in the ER all night last night until like four AM and we're super worried about her. And I figured I'm kind of getting stronger now and I might as well take my first outing opportunity to go see our babies cause I miss them so much. I figure I should probably, you know, change clothes, step everything so heavily from standing up. Full purple is engaged. Belt is fully engaged. You aren't going nowhere, buddy. It's puppy time. Are you doing better? My baby. I really shoulda said. I feel very warm. It was so good to see them. People when they find out that I have dogs they ask me if the dogs were like weird about me missing a leg or were weird when they first like saw my prosthetic leg and the truth is they were I think completely oblivious to it. You'll notice in this footage they really just care about tennis balls. That's it, just tennis balls. They're very one-minded. They know what they want and they're gonna go after it. You know, it's funny being around animals is really comforting because of that because you never have to explain yourself to them. I adore our puppies and I can't wait to bring them home and good news monkey is so much better. It seemed like she got bitten by something. She spiked a really high fever. She was in a lot of pain and hurting and it was heartbreaking. She made a full recovery which is amazing. So thanks for sticking around for this kind of all over the place vlog. I just wanted to update you guys on how sort of everything is going. And with that being said you could end the video here but would you really want to? I finally got a chance to open a number of packages that came in from you guys to my PO box which is listed down below. You all are truly amazing and so I wanted to include some of that footage at the end of this video. I really cannot thank you guys enough. Thinking of me and sending me something like that blows my mind that is so moving to me and means a lot to me. So without further ado. This is such a happy card. Oh my gosh. I actually wrapped presents. Pencil case. And this is actually a pencil sharpener. I have a feeling I know what the topic of the other presents will be. Oh beautiful. Beautiful. Oh my gosh. Oh this is gorgeous. Yes. This is the best. I'm just gonna read the PS here. PS open on camera if you want to. I'd love to see your reaction. Thank you so much, Nicola. This is amazing. And thank you for sharing your story. This means so much to me, Jeanette. Thank you so much. Oh my gosh. This is so adorable to start with. This is awesome. A doodle notebook. Ouch, ouch, ouch. This will help my brain. Let me tell you. Perfect for my fidgety self. Oh my gosh. I love this. Amen to that. I seem to always find the cards last. They're adorable. I don't know if you can see these but they're like just beautiful cute things. Gorgeous drawing from Natasha. This is a beautiful card. I love this idea of being a prisoner of hope. Thank you so much. From Sam. Thank you so much for writing me, Sam. Holy crap, guys. I could cry right now for your sweet, sweet messages and your stories and your amazing gifts. It blows my mind that you guys would think of me and do this for me. So thank you. Thanks for watching, guys. I love you. I'm thinking of you and I will see you in the next video. Bye, guys.