M16

5y

Stay Up Op. I Hope You Make A Full Recovery

Shady

5y

All the best OP. You got this

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5y

just walked with only a cane and no one holding me in my occu session. i’m so outta here 🧗🧗🧗🧗

winterinprague

5y

good s***

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5y

only 17 more days in this hell hole

Red Bandana

5y

There’s no chance of this happening again is there?

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5y

don’t think so they cleaned my s*** up in there

Red Bandana

5y

Good s*** man. Rooting for a full recovery. Hopefully you’ll be back doing deadlifts in no time

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5y

· edited

some detail 3/6/20:

i was born with a blood vessel on my brain that was a ticking time bomb and when my blood pressure rises it fills (https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/brain-avm/symptoms-causes/syc-20350260)so i was deadlifting at the gym and it burst so now i’ve been in the hospital for 14 days

my left arm and leg are currently paralyzed

wish me luck or ama
they see the first one through my wrist 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
this is how they do brain surg:
https://m.imgur.com/a/64KzE6V

i’m 24

update 2/23/21: a couple days past 1 year:

i have recovered extremely well and am currently working on gross motor functions of my hand, but everything else like upper arm and entire leg are in the fine tuning stage essentially.

after i unlock hand extension i will have a full functional left arm, albeit weak, but strengthening is the easy part

i am very close to being able to get back to my new 100% capability

the AVM is still not fully cured, but my last surgery could be soon. i have done 7 angiogram embolizations that have worked, but there is one last part that has a higher risk of re-stroke than all the other places.

#8 last surgery on 4/21 if everything goes to plan i will be done indefinitely

other updates along the way are just posted on the thread i prolly should’ve documented those in op

update 9/5/21:

physicality wise i am unfortunately in the same place as the last update, lacking a functional hand, hopefully still in the cards for me. lately i've been complimented on my fluidity walking. a few people also said they didn't even know i had any disabilities which is good

as far as my brain my monkey on my back last surgery has been postponed twice and is tentatively scheduled for 10/29/21, but i am low risk so other than just wanting to get it done it's not a huge deal

update 12/29/21:

so i'm trying to correct some of my mistakes in the OP, but I can't get everything right. i've been home all of december from my 8th brain angiogram. now what's left on the table for TBD in the new year is my FINAL brain surgery, which will be a gamma-knife (https://youtu.be/7ScVu-ZGfu8) and i can't wait

update 5/25/22

gamma knife was the worst looking, yet easiest surgery of my 9

super easy, now i’m DONE w brain surgery indefinitely until they check in a few years to see where the gamma took it and if it’s necessary i’ll only have more of these which is fine! the bad part is i had a cognitive stroke and got anterograde amnesia

Sousa2626

5y

how u doing

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5y

it’s hard to say cause i feel fine and i’ve been fine for weeks but i know i’m not actually fine. like i said i only lost my limbs not my mind or speech so i’ve literally been the same person i usually am this whole time. kind of a loaded answer sorry

no color

5y

Wishing you the best OP. Love your energy

IT NEVER ENDS

5y

Why are you deadlifting with a condition like that

loveu

5y

You got this king 🙌 look at all the years you survived already. Nothing can bring you down. Fr

A Mad Ass Nigga

5y

I don’t have a question but Wishing you the best op 🙏🏾

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5y

my arm not coming along is getting so frustrating. i don’t wanna have to carry this mf around for the rest of my life