Just watching nostr:npub12r0yjt8723ey2r035qtklhmdj90f0j6an7xnan8005jl7z5gw80qat9qrx take steps without crutches or a cane for the first time in 2 years.
He’s wobbly, but it’s amazing to see again.
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Damn I saw crutches in a photo he posted yesterday. From a fellow crutch user for many years from a knee injury I hope you continue progressing dawg. No one understands how awful life is when you’re in pain in order to be mobile.
Yeah feels like a new lease on life!
Couldn’t agree more. Really does feel like a second chance.
Yup! His also involved the knee. They had to make him a new one. It started like this. I hope yours is all healed up and you’re pain free🙏 
God DAMN. That hurts my soul. You guys got each other though. I swear companionship makes anything a little easier to get through. You’ll be back before you know it 🫡
Don’t worry! He had a beautiful wife who already worked in skilled nursing with disabled people and had the experience to give him an awesome quality of care 😂🫂
Oh wow, I didn't know he was incapacitated. Great news🙏🏻🎉.
For too long! I feel like a mother watching her baby take the first steps 😂🫂
Friggin' finally! Good job, Puzzles. You'll be running on the Alabama beaches by July.
Oh shit that’s right! He may not have that excuse much longer 😂🫂
That was my very first thought. If he's still resistant, get your own ticket and room. Tell him he can join you if he wants. We need to hug ASAP. 🫂
Yup. I thought about that like I could just go and he could stay home with the dogs, but I get nervous doing long flights without him still
i have this picture in mind 💜🫂 
Yassssssss😂🫂
Awww 🥰 congrats 🎉 to you nostr:npub12r0yjt8723ey2r035qtklhmdj90f0j6an7xnan8005jl7z5gw80qat9qrx on your first steps 🥹🥹🥹
It’s a special moment in #nostr history 👏🧡💜
I knowwwwww. I was NOT expecting this this morning. Now I don’t know what to do with myself😂
Hahaha you are almost
Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
He might have to try to put a baby in me soon 😂 no more excuses
Wait, have you been convinced?
I've missed so much not being in the chats.
Just happened. Breaking news!
I started getting the fever and heard a lot of positive endo miracles so why not 😂🫂 I just don’t wanna do all the IVF stuff
Hey, my mom had endo and ended up with me. So you could end up with a me too. 🤣 I feel bad/good about that for you 😉
I’d rather have a mini you than a mini me 😂😂😂🫂
it will be half puzzl and half you 🤣
We were both…terrible kids 😂
but you could be awesome parents 🤓
🤷♀️ lol
Like hey, my mom is NOSHOLE sounds pretty cool.
Kids is 110% honey badger 🦡 like a mini Michael Saylor crossed with Amy Schumer? 🤣
I hope not 😂😂😂😂😂
Like a cross between nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 and nostr:npub1el3mgvtdjpfntdkwq446pmprpdv85v6rs85zh7dq9gvy7tgx37xs2kl27r with some Sleepy mixed in? 🤣
#asknostr what a nostr:npub12r0yjt8723ey2r035qtklhmdj90f0j6an7xnan8005jl7z5gw80qat9qrx and nostr:npub1ymt2j3n8tesrlr0yhaheem6yyqmmwrr7actslurw6annls6vnrcslapxnz offspring would be like
Noo it has to be a little more musical. If my child is not some sort of musical prodigy, I’m gonna be pissed
We thought my niece would be musical when she was a baby. She kept perfect time like a little metronome in her car seat.
Instead I have this mini autistic me who collects book 1st editions and does monster makeup. 🤷♀️ kid is dope af. I love her 😍
Frightening 🤣
Oh man, that's gonna be a wild, feral baby and it's gonna be great.
Kind of scary, but a possibility now 🫂
Awww 🥰 this makes my heart happy 🧡💜
Here is a new Legendary Meme of motivation for you two. You both are going to make Legendary parents. May it inspire you both to start fucking now non-stop until you release the next generation of awesomeness. GN
Exactly 🫂🥰
😂😂
Go nostr:npub12r0yjt8723ey2r035qtklhmdj90f0j6an7xnan8005jl7z5gw80qat9qrx 😎
…that boy is runnnning🫡🌅
Yassssssssss
Look at him go!!!
Here is a new Legendary Meme made just for this awesome occasion. As someone who has been in numerous accidents and had to learn how to walk all over again. I totally appreciate this feeling and it is a moment worth celebrating.
It was very surprising to see! So excited 🫂 thank you
THIS IS AMAZING NEWS! 🥳
Amen! I’m tired of being his legs 😂🫂
I hear you! Caregiver support can be exhausting BUT totally worth it, especially after seeing progress like this 🥹
Yup! I’m a SLP so I saw caregiver burn out a lot in the SNF, but now I REALLY know 😂🫂
An amazing day🥰
Is SLP a speech language pathologist?
Yup 🫂
Aw man I spent a loooot of time with you and the audiologist as a kid. Myringotomy as a child left me with I think a hard time hearing and pronouncing. All S sounds where SH😅
Wowww! One ear or two? Just curious🥰 I love audiology, I almost became one when I was in undergrad, but ended up doing speech for my master’s.
In both. I don’t remember getting them in but I do remember getting them out around 5 or 6 YO. Absolutely riddled with ENT problems. I vaguely remember sitting behind a glass wall with two buttons and a bunch of doctors would play low frequencies and I’d press the button corresponding to the ear I heard it in. Nowadays I have awful tinnitus that I can’t help but think is linked to those procedures as a kid
Yeah I think the tinnitus is definitely related. I hope it is somewhat bearable, a lot of my patients with hearing loss complained about it being awful.
How is your hearing now otherwise?
I’m riddled with some sortve condition that I am convinced is related to my ENT problems as a child. Also had tonsils/adenoids removed around 10 YO. My entire childhood was a series of infections and surgeries😂
Tinnitus is weird. If I focus on it it’s blaring. Otherwise it sortve just exists
I wouldn’t be surprised. Tonsils and adenoids are often correlated with Eustachian Tube Dysfunction. I would be interested to hear more or if you decide to do an additional ENT or audiological eval.
Have you looked into masking devices for the tinnitus?
Honestly Nos you may be able to help me because I’ve sortve been looking for types of assisted hearing aids. In some instances to cut noise OUT. In many ways I have almost “supersonic” hearing. Or something. My tinnitus is awful but I can hear someone chewing from 3 miles away.
Absolutely. We should chat because I have an audiology background that kind of goes to waste sometimes. When’s the last time you saw an audiologist?
I need to see one lol my hearing is shit sometimes. And I think I have tinnitus
A long, LONG time ago. My guess is probably 25 years ago.
That is WAYY too long. I would want an eval to rule out additional issues or at least get fitted for a device that can mask and filter sounds for some relief
I never really considered that if I had problems with my ears as a kid that I probably still would as an adult. Likely exacerbated. I’m going to look into that. You just get used to living with problems and forget that you may have options at your disposal.
I may want to follow up with you about some stuff because you’re making me rethink everything rn. Thank you for this.
You get used to it. My audiology professor put on this loud white noise machine everyday before he started class and when he was going over tinnitus, he turned it off to illustrate that even though we barely heard the noise/got used to it, there was a huge difference when it was gone.
Do you have simplex? If not you can always dm me questions
I feel that. I give so much credit to my SLP & audiologist with their guidance and education in speech comprehension and pronunciation growing up as a child with severe-to-profound post-lingual hearing loss.
Without nostr:npub1ymt2j3n8tesrlr0yhaheem6yyqmmwrr7actslurw6annls6vnrcslapxnz's SLP profession, I would’ve been stuck with having to either communicate via dry-erase marker and white board, very slurred deaf-speak, or learn to sign in ASL limiting myself to a small, isolated community within my hometown.
We’ve come a long way!
It really does make all of the difference. You’re a physical therapist! Do you practice in the US? Originally I went to college to be a PT.
Hardest achievement I ever worked for in my entire life. All I care about is that it made my parents proud.
While I received my doctorate in physical therapy after finishing the 3-year DPT program, I’m currently in the process of obtaining my license to practice in the US.
My licensure exam takes place at the end of April, so fingers crossed I’ll be practicing by the start of this summer.
& interesting! Do you have some background in fitness, healthcare, or the medical field?
My man! Congratulations to you. I bet your parents are so proud of you.
I have a CSCS, if you’re familiar. It’s through the National Strength and Conditioning Association. I’m looking to go to veterinary school in 2026/2027 but I figured the CSCS was a way for me to work with athletes without the doctoral program, if you catch my drift.
A good PT is a miracle worker. My guy fixed my knee up in a way no ortho could.
Thank you! I appreciate your kind words, good sir.
And yes I am familiar with CSCS. Many of my colleagues either came into the DPT program with a CSCS certification or were working real hard to obtain one. And lemme tell you, those guys really knew their stuff.
I have mad respect for y’all putting in, the knowledge you have, to work at the gym & educating your athletes alongside with them.
Those who put in minimum effort just talking the talk, but not actually walking the walk, really grind my gears because, at the end of the day, without that first-hand experience in the treatment/exercise plan you give them, are you really giving them the highest quality of /support? No.
We need guys like you for both the pre-rehab and the aftermath of our treatment. So all in all, we all work together and everyone wins. 🤙🏼
Man…no one ever knows what a CSCS is! Amazing!
I really love exercise + ex phys so I figured I had to monetize my knowledge if I could.
Would love to follow your journey through licensure so you should definitely post about what you’re doing. I’ll be on the lookout for your content
That’s amazing!! Is verbal speech your main language modality? What did they use for receptive hearing (devices/lip reading)?
Beautiful to hear this 🫂
Yes,100% verbal speech all the way. I was fitted with bilateral BTE hearing aids in which helped both my parents to nurture me in a verbal speech environment. Somewhere along the line, I started lip-reading (which helped my pronunciation) and using touch of others’ vocal cords to adjust my volume level in certain areas (church, movie theatres, noisy restaurants, etc).
Doing all of this helped me work well alongside my peers in mainstream K-12 education & dispel any reasons to be on the Special Education track or Schools for the Deaf programs.
Ironically, I was fitted with a FM amplification system in the classroom to help me listen to my teacher better without background noises, but it led me to depend greatly on lip-reading with my peers since I wasn’t able to switch from the FM system to my hearing aids at a whim. 5 years of that in elementary school, I kicked off my IEP/504 plan and went completely mainstream as a highly proficient lip-reader and never looked back.
Wowwww that’s a huge success story🥰
That’s amazing you were able to maintain full general education and were exposed to good strategies/as much access to sound from the beginning.
Luckily those FM systems are now blue tooth with the hearing aids so kids with hearing loss can easily switch
Not medical advice and totally understand if nostr:npub12r0yjt8723ey2r035qtklhmdj90f0j6an7xnan8005jl7z5gw80qat9qrx is following a specific physical therapy treatment plan prescribed by his DPT/physio/primary healthcare specialist:
The videos below are my favorite go-to rehabilitative exercises that can help strengthen the lower extremity (particularly the glutes and legs) and improve balance with emphasis in developing confidence to handle oneself without use of assistive devices (crutches/cane).
This way he can slowly minimize support of the chair or countertop over time as he becomes more confident in his strength & balance.
Sooner or later, y’all can introduce therabands, ankle weights, or MonkeyFeet to the same video exercises mentioned or target more specific muscles (quads, hamstrings, glutes, etc) to help reduce some of that wobbliness and improve general walking.
If you made it this far, thank y’all for staying at my DPT-related Ted Talk.
Godspeedy recovery, Puzzl 🤙🏼
P.S - links below are references for equipments I mentioned & full-disclaimer I have no affiliation with any of these brands whatsoever. They are trustworthy brands I’ve used for myself and with my patients/clients with positive feedback. T’is all 🫡
https://www.performancehealth.com/theraband-resistance-band-beginner-kit
https://www.performancehealth.com/theraband-ankle-and-wrist-weight-set
Woww! So far, he’s been doing a lot of those in PT, but I don’t think they have added resistance yet!
It was really hard to get that weight bearing at first, but we are lucky to have a pool so he started walking in there everyday months ago and he has been improving so much faster ever since!
Thank you for the resources and support 🫂
GOOD! Aquatic therapy is a blessing in so many ways & I’m glad y’all have that going for you 🥹🫂
I’m absolutely grateful to witness the fruition of y’all’s hard work & will continue to support y’all’s journey to full recovery! ❤️🩹
We felt very fortunate for that 🫂
Thank you so much. I know personally, that we often get to see our patients in the thick of it and not always see the benefits of our work (they are often discharged before we can see the full rewards)
I only recently .. well knew any of you really, but gathered he’d had some health struggles recently. Encouraging news
Oof yeah it’s been quite the journey and it was hard to see that light at the end of the tunnel for a long time. Not today tho 🫂🥰
Oh My Goodness!! How very exciting for you both!!! He got you a great valentine's gift after all 😆💜. Hell yeah! Words are hard today, but hopefully my excitement is coming through 🫂🎉
I dooooo🥰 it’s a beautiful day. I hope your words come back to you soon 🫂
That’s great news!
The best! He’s gonna be taking the trash out again in no time 🤗
Haha good! I’m all for female power but I do not take the recycling out lol. Garbage we have a shoot but recycling is the worst!
Female power is great, but I don’t have enough for every chore in this damn house 😂😂🫂
My mother taught me that because men are usually bigger/stronger than women they should do the majority of the housework since it's so much easier for them. Hey it's just science.
😂😂😂😂 he can take over laundry too then
I for one absolutely love cleaning and organizing everything. 🤣However when it’s expected of me only and the other can’t do their part and adult I get livid.
Lucky! I already hate cleaning and do not organize, so when I have to do more, I’m double pissed 😂
everyone has their special unique talents, and thoses tasks are perfect for those people uniquely qualified for the job 😂🤣
you wouldn't want someone unqualified to the task, would you?
all rushed and half assed
You’re saying just call a professional house cleaner, right?
I guess, but be prepared to clean up before the cleaning crew enters the house 🤣😂
I always do 😂 otherwise it’s just embarrassing
you really let strangers clean your house? 😅
as it should be 😍🧡
Hey, cool! 😃
Cograts to the both of you!!! Team work at its finest. Love to see the love :-)
Thank you so much friend! We are both very grateful
You know, this is just some really good news right here.
BJJ take down so he knows it s real 🫂😂🚀