Freeeeeeeeedom! I can drive!

I met Stephanie today at Kwik Kar. She is so sweet! She made me fresh coffe and chatted with me while I wait. Haven't been able to drive since my accident. I have family arriving in from out of town today. Moving here. Not a lot I can do, but I have a Dually. A nice big Truck and that is ALWAYS needed during ANY move. So me and my crutches are getting the inside of my very dirty truck cleaned out so I can drive people and their stuff around. She is called BEAST for a reason. She ALWAYS gets the job done. It pretty much what I can do. Getting in and out is still a bit of a chore. Just because the Doc said I can bear weight doesn't mean my leg is allowing much yet. (At all) It is what it is.... But I'm healthier today than I was yesterday. I'm celebrating my small win. I can Drive!

Wires off my mouth!!

A car stopped traffic on the freeway. It was  wheels up and traffic had to exit. I was 45 minutes late for my apt and they still saw me. Great Docs!!

Those chop sticks are numbing my gums for extracting the metal on the x-ray. The Rabbit ears in front tighten the metal that was wrapped around the roots when I had surgery. After he used the chopsticks, he shot nova cane in my gums, but the metal in front and then ripped 8 different sections out one at a time. It felt like a razor blade slicing at my gum for just that split second and then it was gone. The damaged roots are stable,  6 more weeks and I get a titanium root for the tooth he extracted. Another 3 months after that, I get a new permanent tooth. My first day on crutches and I put "some" weight on every step. Slow and steady since the leg doc said I could. By the time I got here, they asked me to let them wheel me around in a chair for different rooms and x-rays and such. I was and am so very tired. But I am moving and I am happy. Just exhausted. 

Begin weight bearing!!!

Bone Doctor says he is VERY impressed with my progress.  Fibula still in 3 pieces. Tibia still not connected.  I need to add weight bearing to stimulate the healing process.  Consume nutrition to feed my body what it needs to build bone. 

All I have been allowed to do so far is come off the pain meds, Epsom Salt Bath therapy, and practice range of motion. I can almost get my left heel to my butt . I have lost some flexibility because i could not use pressure to assist until today. My left ankle almost flexes back as far as my right ankle unless i try to flex like a weight bearing front stance, then the added pressure tells me how far I truly have to go. He predicts 8 months till I can get back to full cardio and a full year before a can participate in anything full contact.  The ankle screws may require removal. He fired my referral to physical therapy.  He says I am doing so well I don't need it. 

Start with about 25% weight bearing and go from there.  Listen to my body and don't over do it.  If I fall down,  all bets are off. I am NOT to put myself in a fall risk situation.

The plan today was to take Nana to lunch. But every restaurant we pass we just don't want the food,  lol... So we are headed to Whole Foods. They have an excellent deli and I am going to select additional bone building nutrition. Hope is the most incredible motivator.

Monday night Habits Of Health

I used to teach these classes in a hotel every Thursday.  A 13 week series of introducing baby steps you can choose over time to support your goal of Optimal Health.  Then I recorded them and I have shared them via recording nationwide with my clients.  The interactive nature of the tools we have available today is amazing.  We can be across the country from each other,  yet share a cup of coffee in the same room. It's fun.  Hope you join.  See weekly Habits of Health Link above for more information. 

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March 2016 It's Not a Diet - Volume 1 Issue 1 (It's Not a Diet Kickoff)

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Typical results are 2-5 lbs per week for the first two weeks and 1-2 lbs per week thereafter

Typical results are 2-5 lbs per week for the first two weeks and 1-2 lbs per week thereafter

Typical results are 2-5 lbs per week for the first two weeks and 1-2 lbs per week thereafter

Habits of Health

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Sunday 03/06/16 - My First Bath.

The incisions are healed enoughto be submerged.  I took my first Epsom Salt Bath today. some of the incisions inflamed.   Side effect of broken bones and coming off Narcotics is restless leg syndrome and inability to obtain recuperative sleep. And I'm rebuilding circulation in my leg.  It turns purple. Noticeably purple. I rub it tk increase circulation, but it's going to be awhile.  According to staff at the bone doctor,  4 benadryl will assist me to recalibrate my sleep. and I will be a little foggy in the morning.   Before I learned how to exercise,  I had restless legs syndrome. I know all I need to do is move my body and sweat, and run. Warm up those muscles and get them stretched and tired. And that will come but right now,  I need recuperative restful sleep. Ive been eating incredibly high nutrition, drinking tons of water, using medurma on my scars,  practicing range of motion.  One baby step at a time.  I was reminded today, we are only 9 or 10 weeks out from Taekwondo United Nationals.  I wanted to test for collar.  And I wanted to compete and watch my daughter compete and participate on the demo team.  We will see. ...

Wednesday 3/2/16- First Day No Meds!!!! Time to begin Exercise!!

So I have been on Narcotics......

First my surgery in December short lived then again after my accident, 1/29/16 every 4 hours until two days ago.

My mind has been so foggy I have been unable to focus at ALL. I forget. I have to write everything down. I know it is the anesthesia lingering (3 times in 2 months) and the narcotics.... In the Hospital they had me on 2 high dose pain pills, an IV Muscle relaxant and morphine PRN (as needed) and it could not keep up. It was awful. I was sent home with prescriptions for Antibiotic Once a day, An antibiotic mouth rinse that stained my teeth so much my Dentist thought my teeth were dying but my gums healed up FAST (they cleaned my teeth and it all came off but that was scary.... a 500mg tablet Methocarbamol (muscle relaxant) every 6 hours (ADDICTIVE- made me nauseous), Promethazine 25 MG tablet for the side effect of nausea that takes my ability to think and KNOCKED ME OUT!, And Oxycodone-Acetaminophen 10-325 up to 2 every 4 hours (Can we say ADDICTIVE and HIGH DOSE creates nausea- I only took 1 every 4 hours but Damn.... my leg hurt, I could not think, I slept all day every day and I forced myself to put a few habits into place..

 It took sheer will, but I made my bed every day, I took off my pajamas and got dressed every day and I took off my clothes and put on my PJ's every day. I kept my room clean and that was my best effort upon returning home. I needed to know I would  heal, I needed SOME sense of normal and it was a place to start.... They downgraded my Muscle relaxant to Cyclobenzaprine 5 mg just at bed time and my pain meds to Hydrocodone  Acetaminophen 5-325 (still very strong and very addictive) And now I am prescribed Acetaminophen-Cod #4, still very strong but at least they can call in the prescription and I didn't have to physically pick it up at the Dr office.

I could not put my leg down. Gravity would cause my toes to swell like little sausages and my leg below the knee would swell and ache. If I wrapped it in a bandage, it would have deep layers of where just a light wrap would indent into the swelling  and the path would circle up my leg. It was an interesting experience.

Sausage Toes... 

This is Why I have had to stay home and keep my leg up.... This is painful and I want OFF the Narcotics!!!!

One picture I wish I had taken but I forgot. So I iced and elevated the leg 24 hours per day, 7 days per week since 1/29/16 and today is March 2..... The journey continues.

2 days ago I turned off all of my alarms and slept through the night for the first time all year I think. And then yesterday, every time my alarm went off during the day, I reaccessed... and said NOPE! I got this. I can manage this and instead of taking a pill, I worked range of motion, evaluated my strength and drank some water, (hot tea), lol.. I have always believed water can heal almost anything. Providing the body the ability to transit what it needs to move inside my body so it can perform. And I have been consuming VERY HIGH nutrition without all the calories since the day of my accident. Creating health is a system of behaviors. Purposefully managed with a fully present Mind.  When I arrived home I had this huge cast like thing on my leg and a rod in my tibia and I wondered just how much I weighted. The day they removed my Cast I weighted in at 162, a number I haven't seen in years. But I was so swollen in my leg and face that I have actually watched my ankles slowly returning (not yet fully returned) and the swelling in my face and gums caused the lab to have to make my temporary tooth two times because it takes a week and the first one they made did not fit a week later after swelling went down.

 Yesterday I weighed in at 153. I almost cried. My ideal weight has always been between 138 and 143. Even at 138 I begin to lose a little energy. But 143 is my maximum ideal and I feel AMAZING and perform like a BOSS at that weight. And I can do pushups. My ultimate challenge has been building my upper body strength over the course of time. And I have to keep the weight off my body in order to improve quality push ups. Every day I reevaluate my goals. Today I am going to have someone get my pilates ball down and I will begin to set time aside to do "something" my favorite way to begin any habit is to do "something" and I have found that my "somethings" can become anything I want to achieve over time but it takes beginning to get there. So today will be my day 1 of getting back to exercising. So don't ever tell me you CAN'T do it. I know better. There are few people who become a health coach who have lived through such struggles. I come from a place of "Been THERE Done THAT", lol. And today I am very excited to begin to build my body. I will call my leg doctor and request they lift my driving restriction also. Exciting day.....