 Good morning my beautiful internet friends. I have been sitting here on this couch for like an hour and a half Telling myself to get to work telling myself to do things telling myself to be productive, and I've done none of those things I'm real sad. I feel like I've lost the ability to distinguish between what is being overly worried overly concerned because things have happened before and What's actually something not being right first of all a little bit of setup this video was from yesterday afternoon Excuse the stuffy nose and garbled voice and my wet dog look it's a good look for me, isn't it? So today is day four of practicing my leg honestly though check out the fact that I have like Two legs that's pretty cool. It feels horrible. I mean like really horrible not good And the problem is it's not just when I have a leg on even just with a liner. It feels like really painful I don't know what to do because that's not like a prosthetist issue because it's not even my leg put like the leg Like this leg itself pushing on it It's anything on it really hurts and it's been a month now since surgery So what's going on guys like what's the tea not what the cool kids say on my leg? This is my I smile so I don't look super worried face I am kind of concerned because it's like sharp pain. I feel like it shouldn't be sharp pain So as you guys know I picked up my new leg a few days ago I got to bring it home to practice with for as long as I need to it did not feel good there But also like even putting the liner on is painful So I don't think that the fit of the leg is terrible if that makes sense But last night I couldn't sleep and so I got up and I practiced with my leg for about 15 20 minutes I walked back and forth a lot and then I also just did like a mini version of a workout I like sat on the floor and just like crunches and sit-ups and stuff like that So it wasn't like I was doing anything that was really struggling something like and I woke up this morning Well side note that was painful, but like I pushed through I was like, okay, whatever I'm just gonna do this for 15 minutes. It'll be fine I woke up this morning am I like hurt And is like swollen and it's not supposed to feel like that And we're now four weeks past surgery, which is cool So I called my prosthetist and then I call my doctor and I'm waiting on a call back for my doctor Just want to learn to walk The victim part of me is like can't anything just be simple I know this is like how the road goes But I the last thing I want to freaking do is drive to Denver for one more doctor's appointment I can't tell you how much I don't want to do that Like I feel like it's just one more roadblock after another roadblock after another roadblock and I am Real tired waiting on a call back for my doctor Then I'll set up an appointment then we'll go see and then we'll go see what's wrong And until then I don't think I'll use it unless he tells me otherwise because it hurts It like is not uncomfortable. It hurts. I get to learn a lot about patients. That's a positive I say dripping with sarcasm considering the fact that I'm being thoroughly unproductive and I'm sad and hurting a lot I figure we'll use the hurting a lot to my advantage and I'm gonna try out Got this off of amazon not remotely sponsored. This is the electronic pulse massager What a liquid crystal display So I'm gonna see if I can hook this up and make it work. Maybe it'll help. Let's give this a shot Look what we have here. So I think these are the Electrodes the crystal lcd display they're bragging about. It's really nice that they give you batteries Otherwise, I would have had to wait until I went to the store to get some Should we put this there? It looks like product placement if I leave it there So I chose this one off of amazon because it was recently it was recently placed Reasonably priced extra element that were today and had some good reviews This is the kind of day That we're having I just want to open the bag and I tear the bag poor poor jordan So my family has this joke, okay And please know this is a joke as I struggled to open this bag if I'm having a hard time Like they'll make fun of me, right? If I'm having like a pity party, they'll be like poor poor jordan So now I require them to say it's like music to my ears. That's right pity me I'm just kidding. Please don't not useful not useful not useful not useful. Not useful. What are you? You might be useful I feel like I'm not skilled enough like I haven't reached the adulting level to be trusted to actually Put this together and put it on my body, but that's what we're gonna do I'm a weakling. Ta-da I did something. All right. Check out that. Oh, I didn't go off. Okay. No, we're good I'm legitimately a little bit freaked out about this guy. Here's the problem guys. I have an option for a foot That's awkward. Oh, I think I feel something. It's definitely not painful. It's weird. Shall we turn up the intensity? Ah, it feels like electricity. I guess that'd make sense. It almost was like like pinching I'm gonna turn that down a little bit like tiny tiny little pinches like seriously. It's not painful Okay, so the idea is to attach it Like across where you feel pain. So I put these in the wrong place turn off first kids Don't go playing with electricity while it's on I was told that it would help with like phantom pain because it kind of like Scrambles the signals for lack of a better description. Random fun story. I was sitting here for like 10 minutes I pressed a couple buttons after I turned the camera off and I was like, huh, I really don't feel anything Maybe I should turn the intensity up and so I did. I didn't feel anything. So I turned it up I didn't feel anything. It's been off. It was like on the wrong channel It was like I pressed the buttons and I switched the channel and it wasn't doing anything So that was a good that was a good use my 10 minutes. All right. So my leg is still baking It's not out of the oven just yet, but I wanted to talk a little bit about why I got a tens unit So my friend adam told me before I even had amputation surgery that his tens unit really helped him with phantom pain Po surgery So I was going to get one right after surgery and then I ended up not being able to but I ended up getting one now Now my phantom pain is pretty much under control But I have normal pain and I have phantom pain some nights and so I figured you know what? I'll just try it for kind of everything But I know a couple people on instagram were asking me about why I actually had a tens unit And so it's not specifically for phantom pain, but I know a lot of amputees who definitely helps with that Also, these are pretty common devices. I'm wondering have you guys ever used one? Did you like them? Did you find any benefit? Let me know in the comment section And off all right, so I made it to 40 minutes and guys that was really interesting feels all right I can tell you for sure. I didn't make it worse immediate reactions I feel like it was if nothing else distracting from the pain the soreness and like tenderness I have around specific spots that were hurting seems to be gone a little bit. It still hurts It's not like a magical fix, but also I didn't turn it up super high So I'm gonna try it out again over the next couple days and I'll definitely update you guys If you're thinking about getting a tens unit, I would recommend this it works really well It was super easy to use fairly simple to set up probably easier if you're not, you know Having a blonde moment like I was all day today. I'm gonna go attend to this cold and this cough I'm not sure if you can hear it, but it's really like kicking up a little bit And I should probably take care of that So I love you guys. I'm thinking about you and I will talk to you soon. Bye guys