 Good morning, my beautiful, lovely, delightful internet friends. It is 8 a.m. on a Monday? Monday? It's Monday morning. I thought I would take you guys along with me for 24 hours in a life of an amputee with a prosthetic leg using wheelchair, going to jujitsu practice, and just sort of a vlog of what average daily life looks like today. Please ignore the crunching in the background. So I'm excited to kind of share my day and what that looks like with you guys. Let's hop back about an hour and a half to when I woke up this morning. So since I do not sleep with a prosthetic leg on, the first order of business in the day is to always get that on. I say hi to puppies, make the bed, and then get over to the bathroom to get my liner and then my prosthetic leg situated. Now one thing about being an amputee is that your leg changes sizes and overnight your leg might not fit quite right. So this is me kind of struggling to get my leg in because a little more swollen than it was night before when I took it off. But once I pop that on, I've got it, we're good to go. Let's go take care of those puppies. Puppy dogs have so much energy every single morning. What do you do? Do you sleep well? Weird. Is that tennis ball? Is that good tennis ball? So once I've got the puppies fed and let out, I usually grab breakfast right away. I made some cereal, made some cereal. I poured it into a bowl, drinking coffee and journaling. I find that if I can journal at least a few days a week, it's really good for my brain. I also like being able to go back and review the footage. Also don't mind all the nose prints on the window that you just saw thanks to these guys. But then after that, I usually jump right into work. I just kind of switch sides of the table and switch into work mode. This morning I was working on a video that I was running late on, so I was kind of hurrying to make a deadline. So usually when I'm sitting down to work in the morning, I'll use my wheelchair for the next few hours so I can take my leg off and be comfortable. But I've been having an issue with it right here in my backyard and I leave the door, you know, cracks the dogs and come in out and enjoy the morning. But I'm really worried about the raccoon still being there even though it seems like he's gone because he's gone after my dog. My dog's gone after him and I can't get to them very quickly if I have to put my leg on and so I'm just too anxious to take off. So I'll bring them in shortly but for now I'm gonna work with my leg on. So you may be wondering to yourself, don't you shower in the morning? The answer is generally yes. I rinsed off last night because I actually have jiu-jitsu practice here in a couple hours and it doesn't really make sense to like shower and get totally ready for the day before going and getting super sweaty again to then take another shower and so I'm just we're rocking this look for now. Shower later. I was just checking emails and I still haven't heard back from my rental company. I reached out to them two weeks ago because I think I may realistically have to move just for accessibility needs with my leg because I cannot use my wheelchair effectively throughout the day and my leg isn't a lot of pain. And so I was inquiring about transferring my lease to a different property or like saying what we could work out and I called them three times. I've sent a number of different emails and nothing. So it looks like I'll be calling them again today and emailing them again today. All right I got the video edited in time for the deadline so that is going out and I think in the meantime we should get the puppies some pup cups, some puppettinos. What do you puppy say? Before we grab those pup cups a quick word from our sponsor. A huge thank you to Ritual for sponsoring today's video. Ritual is the obsessively researched multivitamin that is reimagining health from the ground up. It takes the guesswork out of vitamins with transparency. I've always felt like choosing a multivitamin can kind of be overwhelming sometimes. We've all been there walking down grocery store aisles staring at the array of multivitamins and being like I don't know if it's in this or if I need it. I personally really like that I can take their delayed release capsules on an empty stomach or after eating something. I don't get like that stomach upset or heartburn that I've gotten before with other multivitamins. Although we have a guess. Mr. Leo you can't eat my things. 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He just grills everywhere. Happy puppies. All right take home. Time to keep working. Okay so now that we're actually home the dogs have had their play time I'm gonna go ahead and get comfortable use my wheelchair and take my leg off because this thing is not feeling super good today. It's like 10 30 and I'm gonna make a pizza. Bear with me on this one to eat a lot before I go to practice. I try to really make sure that I'm consuming a lot of food on practice days because sometimes like using a prosthetic leg and using a chair now it's hard to get enough energy consumed throughout the day to make sure I'm feeling my body but especially with jujitsu it is a very high-intensity sport and so I like to make sure that I am well fed. Am I counting having an organic pizza as well fed? Yes. Yes I am. Perfectly done. Look at that guys. Just just look at it. Time to get dressed for practice. Okay I'm not sponsored by Liquid IV but I just want to give them a shout out. I've been using them whenever I go roll or train. They are awesome for staying just super hydrated and kind of keeping the energy up so if you never tried them I would recommend it. Okay it is jujitsu practice time so I haven't talked a whole lot about my journey with jujitsu on this channel because it's always something I kept personal. I trained in Brazilian jujitsu for a number of years before losing my leg and after I lost my leg I tried to get back and do it a couple times but life and then surgeries got in the way and so I didn't continue with it but about two months ago I realized are you licking my back? Why are you licking my back? That I really needed something to keep my brain going kind of had stopped doing most things in my life was very depressed and so as an exercise in mental health care more than anything I made the commitment to go back to jujitsu at least three times a week. There's community and connection there actually getting out of the house and seeing people working towards a new skill moving my body which is really good for my mental health my brain. It is the one thing that I've not compromised on. I've told myself I'm going to do regardless of how I feel today I don't want to go. I don't feel like seeing people like talking I don't feel like moving my body I don't feel like it but this is one of those things that has been really overall very beneficial and I've never once regretted going even when I really didn't want to so we're gonna do this today. Okay so we made it to jujitsu practice time to go learn some head locks wrist locks and my very favorite jokes but what I really like about it is that I don't need to use my prosthetic leg in fact I can't um because it doesn't have range of motion also you can't really be rolling around hitting people in the head with a titanium ankle so I just completely take it off it's way more comfortable I feel super free and so far it hasn't aggravated the issues that my residual limb is having too much so fingers crossed that continues jujitsu hair does a good job of really flushing my skin and giving me one heck of a hairdo all right I got like 20 minutes to go home and shower so let's do that it's really my intention to shower because I have a video meeting but I ran out of time so we just did the pull the hair back and hope that no one notices smell like a lot of different people a lot of sweat right now but they can't they can't smell me so I feel like this should be fine I did it guys I showered thankfully the meeting went absolutely amazing they did not mind that I smelled terrible over video and now it is time to head to a game night with one of my dearest friends and then we'll get back home and get this leg off for the night it is 10 30 and definitely time for some sleep what do you think Leo think he's bedtime it actually doesn't matter what he thinks it is bedtime so let me get this leg off get comfy get cozy get some sleep this lighting is a little ominous goodness do you have enough pillows do you have enough blankets yeah so this goes out to all of my female identifying friends out there you know that feeling at the end of a long day when you finally get to take your raw sweet Jesus thoroughly this right here so much better so my end of day leg care routine has gotten very simple I usually just take my leg off lean up against the side of the door can't keep it away from dogs because if they rub against it this material attracts dog hair like it has no other job and I do a quick rinse off of this with this liner one solution not sponsored I will put their link to the bio down below it's really great helps with odor control because I mean let's be real my leg is encased in something that's basically rubber it doesn't breathe for many hours during the day I mean that a few hours in this isn't smelling so great and more importantly I can build a bacteria lead to infections things like that it's not taking care of properly so I do a quick wash hanging up to dry and then pass out also there's no need to comment on the fact that my shower curtain is down it didn't want to live okay I followed that for quite some time it had no desire to stay up in the world anymore after like the 47th time it crashed to the ground and scared me I decided to give up could I solve this problem by buying a different shower curtain so I've been trying to hop a lot less like I talked about and so sometimes I'll just do the the knee walk across the floor is it classy and glamorous yeah absolutely it is the other reason I do it obviously but now it is time for sleep and some puppy kisses thank you so much for joining me on my day today I truly appreciate it I'm exhausted in the good way oh goodness there's so many dogs help thank you again to our amazing sponsor for sponsoring tonight's video lots of kisses so many kisses and tennis balls a huge thank you to all of my sponsors over on patreon for sponsoring this channel enabling me to do what I do keep watching this video right now thank you for spending a few minutes out of your day here with me today joining me for my day now a pretty normal day the kind of day that I'm a big fan of we love you guys we're thinking of you and we'll see you in the next video