I'm sorry that you're going through it right now!

This is normal, it's time Jessie get to know Jessie you may cry about many things but its ok to go through all the emotions, start a detailed journal in a physical notebook in about a year read it its gonna be surprise you but for now JUST CHILL DUDE and watch funny movies take your self out the situation at least 8 hours of each day

Have you done a TED talk? If not, it could be something to do that will help the non profit.

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Please talk to the financial people at the hospital, you’d be surprised at the help you can get if you tell them your situation. Now is not the time to be prideful… I don’t even wanna think what your bills are gonna look like because I know mine for just this ridiculous broken ankle Are almost at half $1 million at this point. That’s not a typo…. Five hospital stays, four surgeries, and nine weeks of five hour infusions seven days a week because of the infection had gotten so bad. That’s just for the hospital stuff, that’s not the doctors charges, the surgeons charges, Physical Therapy, or Meds. Turns out I actually qualify for Medicare for just that specific situation and I took it, I didn’t even think twice. How would I ever pay that? I guess you don’t know this about me but I’m not wealthy. 😂 Swallow your pride, and talk to the billing department and the social worker at the hospital and see if they can’t get you some help with the bills… There’s no shame because if the program is there, and you qualify for it, why wouldn’t you use it? I’m sure you would tell a friend to do the same thing.

I was a prison wife for 15 years and I can tell you horror stories about prison medical care. After they shot my ex-husband in the face with buck shot because they had him confused for someone else-long story- he spent nine weeks in the hospital downtown. Of course, when he was finally released back to the prison, they put him in medical where he was in a single cell and no one ever looked at him. He spent 14 hours bleeding from the nose to the point, he was soaking a bath towel every 15 minutes. He would bang and scream and yell until they brought him some fresh towels, and they saw how badly he was bleeding and just shut the door and walked away. When he passed out, they finally decided it was time to get an ambulance there. (Thankfully a trustee realized he hadn’t been banging or yelling in about an hour, and something must be wrong.)The paramedics took one look at him and called the helicopter. He went to the local hospital where they were told to put him right back in the chopper and get him to Reno and he should’ve been there 12 hours ago. Turns out there was still some buck shot in his nasal cavity, which is why the nosebleed wouldn’t clot off. Two more surgeries and six more days in the hospital… but I guess it was better than the morgue.

My mother is definitely the opposite, her dementia got worse while she was in the hospital for a broken leg. Once she was released with better support, she recovered more

Yeah living one-handed is harder than you think.

Dude, you gotta make a part 2 or start talkin' faster😂

Dude, don’t put the top back on the medicine bottles! Call the pharmacy and tell them you don’t need child proof bottles… You have options.😂 I know exactly where you’re coming from, and it stinks. I broke my ankle in January… and I’m just now walking on it and in Physical Therapy. When they say don’t let it get infected, they mean it! I had to have two emergency surgeries to clean out the infection in all of the hardware I now had. Five hospital stays later, and one final surgery. (we hope) to remove the hardware thinking that without the hardware, there’s nowhere for the infection to set in - and hopefully I’m finally on the road to recovery, but it has literally been 10 days short of a full year… For a broken ankle. I was standing in my front yard waiting for my dog to pee, and the next thing I knew I was laying in the snow.-in shorts and a T-shirt-wondering which fire station was going to respond. I had to figure out how to get myself across the yard, up the steps and into the house to my cell phone because at 2 AM there weren’t a whole lot of people out. I live alone, and I’m 61… and apparently I am so wealthy. I didn’t qualify for any help not from the senior center, not from the welfare office, nothing. They offered to send me a registered nurse when all I needed. Was someone to do a load of laundry and help me get out of the shower. Please just stop. You have to let yourself heal or it’s going to take twice or three times as long as it needs to. No one that you’ve made commitments to is going to have a problem with you not being able to follow through. The last place you need to be is out in the middle of the ocean when you notice a red streak up your arm… unless of course a care flight was on your bucket list. You have to let yourself heal, completely… please. ❤

This is a wonderful example of your continued ability to be positive in dark and bad times.

You are in a good position to become what you want to be. Dig deep and see what you want to become and start working that way. Just take care of yourself during this time.

You get no proper medical help when you get arrested and that is like the holocaust in my opinion.

You have helped me so much. Have that imposter syndrome so much. No one talks about it. Good to see that i am not the only one feeling it. I ended up getting a job after working for myself. Need the stability to recoup.

Just wait til you're actually able to do things with 2 hands ... you'll have adapted to operating fully one-handed so well, that using 2 hands will totally weird you out (Qualification for comment: hand in traction for 6 months and raised up to my shoulder for the whole time! aged 13 )🦄

Liking dogs more than humans is just as bad as liking white people more than Black people

It's the pain-related broken sleep that can wear you down the most as it leaves you feeling like you've not slept at all. Other than self-hypnosis recordings, the only other real thing I've been given that helps was having the times of my medication regime changed so that the majority of my pain relief is as I'm going to bed then at the correct interval during a period of wakefulness. Still means I'm awake in the night, bot only a couple of times instead of what felt like every 25 minutes. Keep doing what you're already doing and try to speak to your prescribing physician for advice about it preferably without extra tablets if at possible. You've got this, Jesse 🦄

"It's just a TBI, you're ok" is WILD.

Your the defenition of a professional yapper

I know you from something i cant grasp what

My mom is going through something similar. She fell of a step stool and snapped her forearm and needed a metal plate put in. She's super scared to go up stairs or do anything. She subconsciously will go out to move something and accidently pull at her arm, which is super painful. Doing even every day tasks like getting dressed is really hard with one arm.

Just wait til you get old.... 😅 (But you are 100% correct. The world is not disability friendly)

4:37 PT is probably one of if not the most triggering set of 2 letters for anyone with chronic pain. I just recently asked my ortho for a referral to a rheumatologist because I have diagnosed hyper mobility in some joints and others I haven’t gotten diagnosed but it’s pretty clear that I am bendy in abnormal ways in them. My goal is I am fairly certain that I have a connective tissue disorder consisting pain, other symptoms, lack of effect with PT, and healing time post op. I was told to do PT for the 7th time, 4th by this doctor. No matter how many times I said that pt hasn’t helped these issues before, and that I understand that it theoretically should work but clearly something is up causing it to not, I walked away angry with a referral for pt again. It isn’t that hard, triple pain 5 years post op and post 3 rounds of pt means that maybe we need to take another approach. I have been prescribed pt by other doctors too, it’s hard to communicate that just because the problem is with a muscle does not mean pt is the way to go, at least at first (I recognize it is a valuable step at some point most likely, but after 3 attempts we need to do something else before trying it again).

4:37 PT is probably one of if not the most triggering set of 2 letters for anyone with chronic pain. I just recently asked my ortho for a referral to a rheumatologist because I have diagnosed hyper mobility in some joints and others I haven’t gotten diagnosed but it’s pretty clear that I am bendy in abnormal ways in them. My goal is I am fairly certain that I have a connective tissue disorder consisting pain, other symptoms, lack of effect with PT, and healing time post op. I was told to do PT for the 7th time, 4th by this doctor. No matter how many times I said that pt hasn’t helped these issues before, and that I understand that it theoretically should work but clearly something is up causing it to not, I walked away angry with a referral for pt again. It isn’t that hard, triple pain 5 years post op and post 3 rounds of pt means that maybe we need to take another approach. I have been prescribed pt by other doctors too, it’s hard to communicate that just because the problem is with a muscle does not mean pt is the way to go, at least at first (I recognize it is a valuable step at some point most likely, but after 3 attempts we need to do something else before trying it again).

In la no community. Be glad here.

I'm very grateful to you for having posted your whole experience in the aftermath of the accident. Scary as it is, I think it's really good to get videos like this out there to let people see the damage that happens, and the recovery process.

Left arm??

My mom lost function of the right side of her body for the last 35 years of her life. She loved to cook and figured it out after her injury. For my friends birthday she made a chocolate souffle. My friend was amazed, rightly so. She asked my mom, "Audrey, how did you learn to break eggs with 1 hand?" Ma thought a second, "Well," she said, "I had to spit out a lot of shells at first." Lmao.

Praying for your quick and complete recovery in the name of Jesus. 🙏♥️ ✝️

I'm so grateful for your friend and his quick, heroic thinking and actions. Bravo. What a gem.❤

This is a HUGE part of adapting to any new injury, chronic illness etc ... Soemtimes it's lifelong adapting. ETA: Mindfulness practice is helpful for this. Intentional actions to set future you up for success

Losing use of your arm must be a really intense teacher! I have confidence you’ll alchemize this. Keep going brother 🙏🏼

Did they send you home without any pain meds? I go to a pain management doctor so I know full well how they’ve been cracking down on the use of these meds, but my God, your poor arm was all mangled! 😢

🇦🇺🇦🇺 we have free government health care for all citizens. However there are waitlists for non urgent procedures. The government then has a tax incentive program for citizens to have their own private health insurance. It blows my mind that the US has such a problematic health system. Also, the insane costs of procedures and medicines in US is also crazy. People on minimum wage or unemployment here in Australia can get most common necessary medications with a co-pay of $7 and also free family doctor appointments.

Are you allowed to use a heated pad? There are some that are in pillow case form and when having to sit upright to sleep, it helps. Qualified note:hip was broken at 11y/o, sleeping upright was the only way to heal. Best wishes 🤙🏽

I am so happy for you that you are healing and that you have such a strong and beautiful mind that will go on helping you get through. I wish you well and am looking forward for you comming content. 🤗

Please please please take care of

I can soooo identify with all of this! I have herniated discs in my middle and lower back, degenerative arthritis in my SI joint, and MS. I can't lie flat to sleep (in any position) or the discs cause back spasms that make it hard to breathe. I essentially recline in a 60° angle to sleep, but because of my SI joint I need to be positioned just right or that hurts. And even if I start out perfectly comfy, all it takes is one MS related leg or back spasm to pull me askew. And I often get painful foot spasms, but less now that I take tizanidine at bedtime. I truly hope you can find a good system that works for you!

Sending positive energy all the way from 🇦🇺✨️

I'm sorry this is happening. Sending positive energy ✨️

I have always struggled to ask for help. And now I have several auto immune conditions. Still not able to ask for help. I don't really keep up with my activities of daily living, so then I'm too ashamed of my living space to let anyone come by. And it just becomes a cycle 😢

If it’s a personal choice to avoid narcotic-legal, painkillers, perhaps there are other alternatives like tramadol? Or pain medication patches that get stuck on the skin (often last a week) and you only get one at a time so can’t abuse that. Or prednisone/steroids for inflammation. Or diclofenac or other oral anti inflammatory medications that can help with the throbbing. Have they recommended short ice water soaks for your arm at all? Sometimes those can help too. But brief in duration and only if a doctor or pT suggests it. Take care man; it’s impossible to heal if you can’t sleep and let your whole self recover. I hope you find some good relief soon. Maybe a shoulder level nerve l block would alleviate pain? But that might be walking back the progress made in pT. Always a balancing act. Don’t want to damage rude nerves they carefully put back together. What about over the counter sleep aids like melatonin or generic Benadryl or unisom (doxylamine succinate- also the medicine in NyQuil that helps you sleep). Sending you thoughts of warm snugly puppies and kittens to help you sleep.

Jesus! I knew it was bad after seeing your insta but jeesh 😮

You’re doing great, just takes time. It’s not the same, but I have carried a backpack with me for years with my IV nutrition in it, and to this day I still forget it’s there. I heard something beeping in the middle off the night, in my brain I had to turn an alarm off or something and proceeded to throw the backpack. Mind you, it is connected to a line that is place into my heart, so ripping it out forcefully would be a bad thing. I’m so glad my brain had that “oh shit” moment and I was able to stop it from pulling as hard as it could’ve.

You have lived through the 100 worst days of your life.

😳 i didn't know you could move your fingers! 😁 that's huge!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

I injure myself all the time and temporarily end up with basically one arm. Even right now I can only use my thumb and forefinger on my right hand. A lot of times I squeeze things between my legs to grip it and use my good hand to open it. That should work well for things like that knife set box

You just been Mr Magooing it through life huh? Explains the broken arm... I'm surrounded

I just went through this. Buttoning jeans, tying shoe laces, trimming the bails on your good hand...

You are learning 😂