Day 17/3655 No pain pills, no nerve pills, no crazy pills they try to force us SCI survivors to take everyday. The wanted me to stay on blood thinner and blood pressure meds after my PE blood clot one year ago. I did so for a few months, they make me feel different, they bring me down mentally. I throw that shit in the garbage. My Pain is on 100 everyday all day, but the last thing I need is to mask that drive. I know I'm fucked up, and I don't need to depend on some Pill to function. Injured or not your mind and body are much tougher then most give credit for. TBH I don't know if I can even call it pain anymore. I constantly see in disability groups people asking weather the should or shouldn't try to get off all meds. I'm not a doctor, and I'm not giving advice just stating life has been better off them than on them, and Id like to think some of my nerve recovery has been from not blocking them pain signals and allow the nerves to do their thing
You can see yesterday I was tired, I was sore, my knee is swelling, my Posture was shitty and bent over looking at my feet. I didn't noticed it till I went to process the film. I showed up but wasn't on my A game. Iced down the knee last night and this morning, re watch this video and took notes on what I didn't like. I had to refocused, rethink the plan and ready to put my self to work today for day 18!
Since I have started my daily walking journey my blood pressure is much lower, The swelling in my feet toes and legs have decreased dramatically. Before at time I had to wear two different shoe types due to how bad the swelling was even with compression socks. These are just a few of the positives factors
if your have a SCI please do not hesitate to reach out to me, I am willing to talk and discuss anything and everything to help you start and track your progress, 365 production is a team effort, to inspire, push and never allow our minds to get discouraged no matter where we are at in recovery.
The FIGHT is DAILY, the GRIND is hard. This not for the WEAK hearted, but trust in the fact you don't have to do it alone, reach out, ask question, start your own plan, set your own goals, and remember one day the right person will see it and do something because of it. Stay Blessed Stay paying it Forward .
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Even though I bought the right off iTunes.
If it gets muted like past videos Ill have to figure something else out.
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