Dec 10th – Dec 16th: Asking For Help

Dec 11th

What’s interesting, is the ability to ask for, and receive, help. This experience and this injury has given me the opportunity to truly understand what asking for help is like.

By having to make yourself this vulnerable, it really forces us to acknowledge the fact that there are many things we can’t sometimes do on our own. If it means doing something as rudimentary as expelling our own feces, and we can’t even do that on our own, asking for help other than that seems easy.

IF I need help right now to stand, and to get my legs moving, than so be it. That’s okay. That’s what I need. I need help.

There will come a point in my life when I can give and extend that type of help to someone else in need, who truly needs it

Dec 12th

So, it’s crazy! Therapy today was really cool! I got to use the new form of electrical stimulation! It was really cool to feel, it felt totally different than the normal pins and needles that I feel currently. It was a lot different.

2nd day without any pain medicine or pain pills! No Tylenol, or ibuprofen! I’m really proud of myself! And I didn’t really need it either! still a bit tender and sore in the mid section, but it’s not too bad.

Dec 13th

Dang! I went outside for the first time by myself!!! That was amazing!

Dec 14th

What’s wild is you technically “could” stop therapy whenever you wanted….. and this is your choice to continue working on your legs and your goals! There’s so much more to be gained!

Dec 16th

Don’t stop believing in yourself. Your goals, what you’re working for. This has been an incredible journey, and you’re making some big leaps to do even more bigger and better things in this journey to get back walking!!

It was really cool getting the email exchange from Vincent Tellenbach. He seems like a really cool guy, and very knowledgeable in this area of NMES. I think this is a subject matter that I want to not only use on a consistent basis, but also to help with the research!

Shit, I just had an idea… what if during the passive times, or the times when you’re exercising your upper body, that you hook up the stim to the legs? So that when you’re thinking of stabilizing, and you’re getting additional signals to your legs, that you get more “bang for your buck?”