Amputee Depression And Anxiety. Can We Be Done Now?

Описание: I wish I would have had this information to get through elective amputation. If you know someone facing this, please feel free to share this video with them so they can understand what might be coming their way and how to prepare for it.

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If you are in a rocky place in your relationship, please work on that first. Trauma can only make things worse.

Why? I think it is because we are hurting and alone. No one around us really fully understands the mental, emotional and physical pain we are going through.

Try to remember that they wouldn’t be there if they didn’t love you. And try to reach out on amputation forums for the support and understanding you need.

I should have worked on some physical therapy before having my elective amputation. I thought they would teach me how to stand up from the floor or the potty in the hospital. I thought they were going to teach me how to fall properly, but they didn’t.

When I got home, I was stuck. We had to figure it out. Now I can do all of these things but learning them put a strain on not only myself but my husband as my caregiver. We didn’t know what we were doing, and I'm sure we did many things unsafely.

Work on building muscle in your remaining limbs. Do yourself a favor and start now.

Take vitamins, mainly vitamin D, C, and magnesium. Vitamin c because of infection, vitamin D because it absorbs the other vitamins into your body. And magnesium because every single cell in your body needs it, and most of us are starving for it, causing all of these symptoms: muscle twitches, muscle cramps, muscle spasms, muscle weakness, numbness, tingling, osteoporosis, mental disorder, fatigue, high blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, tremors, high stress, anxiety, headaches, migraines, insomnia, and sleep disorders.

Cut out toxic sugar and chemical a few months before amputation, so your body doesn’t have to work as hard and solely focus on healing.

Cook meals ahead of time. Calculate how many meals will get dinner for you and your family and make bag crockpot or baking meals.

Reach out to your sports, church, friends groups to have a meal train set up. People love to help!

Since my husband has switched roles and is now stay at home dad during this time, he has not had to make any meals for 8 weeks! That is a HUGE time and money saver!! A

I have never been one to sit around all day. Even on a broken, dislocated foot, I worked 40 hours a week as a hairstylist standing all day in heels. Even with my previous foot surgeries, I never took a healing break.

So for me to electively amputate my left foot, I knew I would need to sit for 6-8 weeks. However, I did not realize how this would mentally affect me.

For the first week, I was focused on healing and getting to know my new way of life. But the weeks following, I became extremely lonely.

I watched my new leg nub much like a newborn baby. I had to make sure it didn’t get sick and that it was comfortable. Did it look weird? I had to make my best guess at what it was trying to tell me. It kept me up all night in pain. What color is it? Is it too hot or cold?

I watched my leg muscles atrophy in front of my eyes. This was also very hard to mentally cope with.

Giving up total control of the house was not easy either. My husband has a different way of managing than I do.

I knew this is a temporary situation, but at the moment, it wasn’t. In all those moments, it was lonely.

I wanted to be downstairs or go places with my family, but this added an extreme workload to my husband, who is already struggling.

I am now one week out from getting my prosthetic. I have started to gain independence. I can go up and down the stairs on my own and take myself to the bathroom. I can get a drink or snack on my own. I am still very guarded as it continues to heal, but I can afford small mistakes now, like bumping my amputated limb or letting it dangle a little too long.

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