 Where's my coffee? I was gonna start filming, but I've lost my coffee. How do you lose your coffee? It's not like it ran away Success coffee engaged. Hello there my beautiful lovely talented and delightful internet friends. Welcome back to my channel Thank you so much for joining me here today. Today We have a task to accomplish an adventure a quest if you will that you and I are gonna tackle and we are going to Knock it out of the park. Do you like all the drum-dub confidence and enthusiasm? Is it convincing to anyone looking at my coffee cup right now and thinking that I don't trust Joe with that that that's not on a Solid service. It's definitely gonna spill. It's not we're gonna be fine I think what I am holding in my hand here is a prosthetic sleeve if you didn't know I'm missing a foot and This part this part right here is called a sleeve. It's what helps keep this section in my leg It allows me to walk. I'm very grateful for it, but there is a problem It's very good at springing holes And this becomes a problem honestly because when this has a hole in it every time I walk I hiss out air and it's embarrassing sounds like I'm constantly passing gas It also makes it so that I cannot walk comfortably the suction is what keeps this on my leg, right? Everyone wonders about if my leg is ever falling off No, it has not and that is because of the section that this provides so when this has a hole We all have a problem and thus my amazing prosthetist Zach Harvey and his team up in Denver create technologies prosthetics Check it out. If you are an amputee, I cannot recommend them highly enough. I am not paid to say that I just happen to love them set me down an extra sleep and this is actually a new kind of sleep I haven't tried before so this will be interesting for all of us But what I want you to understand if you're not an amputee is that getting this thing onto this thing is a lot more Difficult than it might appear. So let me show you what this is made of so you can better understand the predicament I find myself in however as we dive into this video and you hit that like button if you feel like it a Quick word from one of my favorite sponsors before we continue with our normally scheduled programming for today I am very excited to introduce yet again our sponsor for today's video a bridge a bridge is an app that I would highly recommend Anyone who ever has to have important medical conversations or go to a doctor's appointment download I put a link down below. 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I think over a year ago now I was really excited to start using them and I've used them even when they weren't sponsoring a video So a bridge. Thank you for sponsoring this video Please go check them out in the link down below in the description and now let us return to our normally scheduled programming by the way This right here is the best thing ever invented a simple strip of velcro But it makes it so that when I put it on right here my pants don't roll this up as I try to put them on Thank you creators of velcro. Okay, so taking my sleeve off Easy I got that almost hit my coffee shake the dog hair out Taking my sleeve off is not that big of a problem. You just pull it off You roll it up right no big deal, but the inside of this is made of a very very sticky substance It's rubbery almost feels moist even though it's not yes I used that dreaded word and trying to get this on to the top of this can pose some problems In fact my prosthetics team has come up with a demonstration reel if you will of ways not to do this that people actually try Another way not to put it on it's so focused that is not what we are gonna be doing today What we are gonna be doing today is that last demonstrated technique Let me show you what method I previously preferred what I used to do to get sleeves on and all of my brilliance Seems great in theory, right? It's technically on there But to try to get it up and in the right place, especially when it's brand new and much less stretchy than it is now There's always a pain and then when you try to pull it on it pulls up and then it's not the right place That's totally even so we are gonna try the prosthetist approved method today for this new sleeve now I do want to note I have never had one of these kinds of sleeves before but I'm very interested to see how this is gonna fit because I have Tried other sleeves before and sometimes they're really bulky sometimes. They're like different colors You wouldn't think this matters as much as it does But it's really important to me that my leg matches that like everything is a cohesive color and right now That color is black there was one sleeve I had that was blue It worked with one t-shirt I have in that closet and that was it So how my prosthetic looks is important to me and the sleeve is a part of that so let's try that I also want to say that this looks super super small like compare those two openings I really hope my leg isn't too muscly. We're gonna go with muscly. Isn't too muscly for this All right, Zach and Tyler and team put this on the right way now. I'm questioning what the right way is Hold up. This does not seem long enough. I'm gonna trust the process just to give you an idea This is me stretching this pretty hard and I've got to get it to fit over that Perhaps this is not the best angle for showing the difference, but this is a challenging feet Oh, I do like the fabric though. That's all right. Gotta get the knee forward. This is This is really small. I think I did it Okay, one of the things I miss about having a foot is being able to like grab hold of things Right. I used to like always grab hold of things with my feet when I was trying to do things And now it's a little more awkward. This did not go on evenly, but it did go on I guess it's hard that it's good to get on and off because you don't want it coming off You put anything down in my house. It is immediately covered by an insane amount of dog hair You want a clean house? Don't get your own shepherds And now the moment of truth. Don't think this is big enough for my leg Maybe maybe to trust the process and to trust the process So in case you haven't seen any of my other videos where I'm doing this to get this on my leg fold it down Like so you pray that too much dog hair doesn't get caught on the outside in the process It never works By the way, also if you didn't know I always roll down the top of my liner, which is this thing This is also a weird sticky sort of moist substance and it connects with the sleeve And thus forms the suction that is necessary to walk. Oh man. This is tight tight tight. Okay All right My leg is trying to get out of the top of this sleeve. I'm gonna bring it down I'm gonna bring the whole sleeve down a little bit so it gives the top of my leg a little bit more room All right, let's try this one more time I think we have a winner We did it guys And we have success If you're an amputee or you know someone who is I'm curious if this is like a thing for you too like making sure that Did you see that dog hair? I really hope you didn't I kicked in like a bunch of dog hair I promise I vacuum my vacuum literally every day But yesterday I had a migraine I couldn't vacuum and within 24 hours the dog hair gets out of control Yes, I do brush my dogs. I don't know how they do it. They have magical shedding powers But like I was saying a quirk that I have is that these these have to match It's very important to me that my socket is black and my sleeve is black And thus it can go with I feel like anything I'm wearing I know some people are very particular about everything being flesh colored or as many things as possible I personally don't like that for myself. I kind of like the the carbon fiber robot look I'd like to embrace that and I really appreciate that and your team sending me this sleeve that happens to be black We've done a lot today folks. We've learned how not to put on a prosthetic sleeve Which regardless of if you're an amputee or not you got to admit that is useful knowledge to have You can just like whip that out at any party out of your back pocket Be like listen, I know five ways not to put a prosthetic sleeve on a prosthetic leg people are gonna think you're cool I'm it's just it's just how it works. I promise you it works We learned the effective way to put on a prosthetic sleeve We successfully executed said technique and I think I think we can call it a day guys I think we've accomplished a lot. Thank you again so much to our sponsor for today's video I put all their information down below. Thank you to my patrons for being a part of this community for financially supporting my channel It means the world to me. I do not take that for granted to you watching this video right now You could be anywhere in the world doing absolutely anything I don't know you personally perhaps But I know that there are so many things you could do with your time And it means the world to me that you spent these five ten fifteen minutes with me I love you guys. I'm thinking about you and I will see you in the next video Bye