Recovering from Surgery is Hard || 10 Weeks After Surgery
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2024
- This video was filmed 10 weeks after my foot surgery. At the time of posting this video, it is now 20 weeks post-surgery. Over the next few weeks I will be posting some updates about my surgery as they were happening. Surgery is tough and this road has been hard, but as the updates go on you will see what it is really like for an athlete to go through surgery.
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Hi Steele. Having been through this myself, I can definitely understand where you're coming from. It's frustrating and annoying after you've started to feel better then have a setback. I imagine that making this video and talking to your friends and family about these frustrations can be cathartic. I found it great to get those frustrations off my chest and then I could better get back to focusing on getting my body to where it needed to be and the doctors and I wanted it to be. There may be setbacks; but believe me, you will get there. Keep thinking positively. And my prayers are with you that you get there soon.
Thanks for the encouragement! Sorry to hear you’ve had to endure something similar in the past. Healing is coming and I’m all smiles going forward 😁
Thank you for being vulnerable and sharing this process! It is a part of the process of an athlete that isn't seen too often, and I commend you on sharing! Sending positive thoughts to you! Stay positive, you can do this!
Thanks for taking the time to watch! I appreciate the support!
Patience brother, patience.
Please everyone say a prayer for Steele to persevere with patience and understanding. Amen.
👏🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Watching this was gut wrenching in many ways, not because the reality of the surgery or knowing that Steele had to undergo a follow up procedure, but because after so many years of watching Steele's videos and vlogs, and having met him, one develops a great deal of respect for him and one can't help but have an emotional investment in him as a person. Thus to see Steele endure so much and be significantly challenged physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, one's heart really goes out to him. The consolation is knowing how strong of a person Steele is, his ability to persevere, and the incredible support network his has around him. You got this Steele!
Hey Steele, I'm really sorry to hear the past few weeks have been such an awful time, I wish there was something that could be said to make it better. But thank you for being so raw and honest with your audience, as much as it sucks to see you be in such a hard spot, it's rad to see that you're not putting up a facade and highlight reel of everything. Your realness is fully appreciated. Definitely will be praying for you and that your foot will be healed really soon! Hoping the day you get to properly walk again will be the sweetest ever.
Thanks for the encouragement. It has been a tough process, but healing is coming! Thank you for the prayer!
I’m on week 10 after breaking my ankle in 3 places. 2 plates and 10
Screws. I still can’t walk and I’m in this exact mood as you are here. Hurt, angry, frustrated and in pain. It was easier the first 6 weeks. This is literal hell. I feel like I’m so far away from being normal again and I just can’t stop crying about it. I have been so positive until this past week, I’m just so done. So tired of it all. Mentally and physically it’s so fucking draining.
I really hope you’re better now. ❤️
Thank you for being so real. This video has made me feel heard. No one in my life gets how bad this is.
I'm at week 11 - had three breaks in my rt ankle, rcvd plates and screws. Absolutely the worst experience of my life. Ended up w fracture blisters and had to wait 3 weeks for surgery. I'm very tired of this process. Worst pain ever.
So frustrated w mobility issues and being unable to drive. Fingers crossed things improve for all of us soon.
@@hellojoanna it will get better. It’s been almost 5 months for me now. I can walk without assistance but I still can’t walk down the stairs or on my tiptoes. It’s a long journey. I sort of limp/hobble but I’m finally able to be more independent. I can walk the dog slower. Have a shower. Drive etc. it’s just a long journey. I wish you great healing! ❤️🩹
I’m a diver too and I tore my rotator cuff at a meet seven weeks ago. I’ve been in physical therapy and it’s just made my shoulder worse. I have no idea when I can dive again and it’s my last club season and I’m probably not going to be able to compete at all which breaks my heart. I understand where you’re coming from with how it’s so frustrating how you take one step forward and then three steps backward. Thank you for being such an inspirational and great role model, I’m really looking up to you throughout my injury. Keep on staying strong :))
steele -thanks for sharing and i do understand where you are coming from (without you know ) you were my recovery plus a few others - just give your body/mind time to heal :)
Taking the time needed to heal!
Steele Johnson it’s great to see you back on TH-cam I should have posted a live video of kids diving at the international hall of fame I see the next Steele Johnson down here in Fort Lauderdale he’s young but he can dive.
I know EXACTLY how you feel! I had fractures in my left foot and reconstruction exactly 14 weeks ago tomorrow. (Nov. 21) I'm still in the boot (I have come to DESPISE velcro at this point), only partial weight bearing on crutches (scooter for longer distance) and still feeling pain. I feel your frustration more than I can express. I have cried rivers out of frustration about things as simple as being able to just get from the kitchen to the living room or downstairs to do my own laundry. You're not alone! If you hang in there, I will too. Just have to be patient. Which is clearly not my strong point. I hope you will start to feel better soon! I just know this will get better for you and I'm truly rooting for ya! 💪💯🏅
I’m so sorry to hear you’re still in pain after such a big surgery! We are definitely in this together 💪🏻 I appreciate the support! Have patience because we are both on the path to health!
Feel better soon and stay positive
I'm sorry you're going through all this. It sounds utterly miserable. As someone who also has a long-term injury, I know how waiting for the healing can be so frustrating at times. On a positive note, I love the setup of this video. It's pretty interesting to watch people do something even as simple as making coffee while talking.
Thanks for the well wishes! Ha definitely ready for some health! I’m glad you liked the setup! Maybe I’ll try to make it even better for future video 🙌🏻
I know what you’re going through. I fractured my elbow pretty recently and it’s been so painful. We’ll hang in this together! Lots of love Steele! ♥️
Sorry to hear about your elbow. I hope you have a full recovery! Haha we all are in this healing together!
Hang in there and stay positive, it will get better, Steele. I can relate to how you are feeling. I hurt my foot in the Navy and it took many years to resolve itself. The foot is really complex with many bones and adjoining connective tissue and ligaments. Soft tissue in the foot can get irritated and swollen but the body will figure itself out.
It is hard to stay positive and wait it out. I can understand your fustration and the want to be all better. I don't know if this will help but I used group counseling with other vets with long term pain and injuries. It helped to hear others and learned the processes that the mind goes through dealing with an injury and chronic pain. It seems the foot has troubled you for a while and chronic pain can do a number on a person. It is understandable how you feel. I got very depressed during my long recovery process and I felt defeated at some points. But it got better and it was much easier to deal with when I talked to others and had a support system with others who were going through the same. You never know what life and the Lord will throw at you. Your strong, you have faith, and many who care about your well being. You'll get through this and you'll be fit as a fiddle one day to play with your children. Stay positive!
Staying positive during these processes can be tough! The Lord has a lot of good in store! Just gotta be patient.
I can't imagine the pain you are going through but God definitely has a plan! Keep your spirits up. God's got this!!
God has a plan!
Stay strong Man U got it
Great video and I hope this is over soon. I had major spinal cord surgery in the summer of 2017 and it was definitely a process, but I fully recovered. And while on the subject of frustration and a process, your process of making coffee is incredibly arduous and frustrating ;)
Glad you were able to recover fully! My time is coming soon! Ha that coffee process relaxes me!
Thanks for the update,Hang in there
Thanks for watching. I’m hanging tough 💪🏻
Hi Steele - I appreciated this video. I just recently broke my ankle on 6/28/23, I am 10 weeks out and in the same boat as you were. I am hoping around one leg too with a walker - can’t use crutches. What was the results of the MRI and how long was it after you started to walk again? I am depressed and exhausted too.
I needed to hear this 😢im struggling
Steele you have to remember that you have been putting your body through a ton of stress since you were a teen and maybe before that. I started watching you when you were like 14 or so. Things things are going to breakdown unfortunately. I was an athlete also but not a professional like you are it still took a toll on my body. On top of that we are all getting older now and things do not heal as fast as the once did. So hang in there. I know the process seems long but don't push it. That will only make you have set backs. That foot will be strong as Steele before too long! Hang in there!
The body does wear down after so many years of stress, but I’m believing that I’ll bounce back here very soon!
I think you will as well. After all you are the man of Steele! Best of luck and God bless!
So sorry this is happening to you. Around the same time you had your surgery I had my own for a buckle tear on my right knee. I felt terrible because I’m in my last year of undergrad and I was applying to law school, found out my nana has cancer, had my internship, it was extremely challenging. Your video that you made first really helped me keep going and trying to stay positive. I’m perfectly mobile now after being in a brace for the whole last semester. Hang in there. Every challenge, I feel makes us stronger. At least from my own perspective ☺️
I’m sorry you had to endure all of that! I hope that you’re feeling better day after day!
Thank you! I do feel better everyday. My nana has a strong spirit and seeing her be strong encourages me to continue being strong. I will pray for you and your recovery!
That’s so crazy to hear this man. I don’t claim to know the pain you’re going through. All we can do is to encourage you and pray for your complete healing.
One thing i hope you can keep doing is to document this. i know it’s hard to do it, but this helps other people who are going though similar things.
Also i do think it helps you to talk through this, and not just keep all the frustration inside and feel alone.
Do you have a Patreon or similar for people to support you man?
Prayer is all I need right now! Talking through it has been very helpful :) and I don’t have a Patreon right now, but I appreciate you asking!
Although I haven’t needed to have any type of surgery (which I thank God for), I definitely know what it’s like to go through a tough recovery! I hit the board twice doing a 303b: the first time fracturing my hand and the second time dislocating my pinky. I constantly felt like I could’ve done more to prevent it and felt like I was missing out on competing and doing my best. And not to mention, I blamed God for both occurrences happening to me. But recovering from these injuries taught me so many things that I would’ve not learned if I was still diving! I thank the Lord for teaching me these lessons and finding something new about myself. Hope your recovery goes well and I can’t wait to watch you rip some dives again💓💓
So sorry to hear you’ve hit the board multiple times! Ha I’ve actually been in that position myself many times. Always take the lessons learned and thank God that He got you through it! Stay strong 💪🏻
I love you to death for being so honest about this process. Constant pain is exhausting plus the added stress of school, life, and just everyday things makes it sho much harder. Chin up, listen to your body and doctors and know you are right this time next year you will look back and think wow look how far I've come. Also watching you make coffee was fascinating and super distracting for me. Nice set up there coffee but. Have you tried the coffee flavored m&ms? Hugs and love sir!
Keeping my chin up! Ha I’ve never tried those, but I’m sure I’d like them!
Just done hernia surgery on Monday, Supposed to be done through laparoscopy but when doc put the holes in and saw it inside, it was progressed then his initial diagnosis. He had to open me up a bit and do his thing. Now that I have scar basically on my left side of belly, it hurts like heck. For what it takes me 15 seconds to walk from the living room to my room now takes 1 min. One miss step, weight on my side, It feels like the stitches gonna pop. I can't go to bathroom normally. Off-work this whole week(ok, that's not a bad thing technically.) Not as bad as your post surgery updates but I do feel your man. It hurts but you and I will be back where we were in no-time!
Sounds painful! Definitely hard when moving around takes extra time and effort! I hope you heal quickly!
What up Steele. I’m hoping that you are feeling better after the second surgury, yes I know you had a second one bc of instagram( imma post and story notification squad member ), and hoping that this precious one has helped with the pain, and that it’s a little bit better pain management wise! But I had preached at a youth group conference for my church this past weekend, and I had preached on the topic of ‘God has the Control, NOT us’ and a huge takeaway for a lot of the youth my age (16 years old) didn’t even think about, and I’ve been getting a lot of instagram DM’s that they have been changed in positive ways from Friday night til Tuesday mid afternoon, they say that their teachers have noticed HUGE and DRAMATIC changes knowing that if they take control over the situations, that it will just be a bigger mess, and that they need to LET GO and LET GOD TAKE over, so that they don’t make the situation worse than it already is. But as a fellow Team USA athlete, who’s first year on the SR national team for Rock Climbing, who’s had multiple injuries by oushing myself to more than my body can take, by doing a harder route, or landing wrong on a bouldering wall when I’m done and need to get down, or just not thinking while I’m Competing against someone woman’s needing to be fast to move to the next round, and not thinking about where my hand needs to go, and how to not injury it by straining my thumbs because I put them too far in the hold, or I put them not in the hole enough, so it’s just a mind game basically, and a puzzle all in one. But I’m hoping you can find something to get your mind off the pain, and that usually helps me is getting my mind off the pain by usually doing devotions more, or thinking of somewhere fun like Hawaii or Omaha or Colorado, just somewhere that has a special meaning behind it. But I’m hoping that you can find something to get your mind off the pain, and get to have fun with Aspen, and hang and Netflix and binge, and just get your mind off the pain.
Also sorry if this doesn’t make a lot of sense, I got a concussion the other day, and I am dyslexic so those two aren’t a fun mix.
What were the results of the MRI? I am in a very similar situation with an achilles repair surgery. Week 10 post-op. My brain is so foggy I can barely string a sentence together. I also felt a tear about 3 weeks ago and got x-rays. Surgeon said the tendon is in tact as well as the anchors, but like you, I am having swelling and pain in an area on my ankle. Perhaps a tissue tear.
Hang in there, Steele. Remember: Tough times don’t last, tough people do :)
Amen! Good way to look at it 👏🏻
Oh, brother. I feel ya. I had a SLAP Tear in my shoulder that got repaired July 5th, 2018. Total 6 months recovery I was told. I had spasms in my ELBOW and FINGERS that were horrific! 😳 From putting pressure on my back muscles? 🤔 For weeks I couldn’t even get out of the sling without my muscles spasming to the point where I could barely breathe through them. And then with the change in weather (thanks Midwest), the joint stiffened up on me and I still have good days and bad days. Praying for you, man.
That sounds rough! Sorry you’ve had to go through that! Haha Midwest weather definitely doesn’t help 😅
It is hard.... at times. How's Hilary doing through all this? It is a process. When my mom got the heart attack and have to get her Bypass, I don't even know how I'm gonna get through it all..... wait for her surgery (six months to get her body back in proper condition for surgery)..... during her surgery (fearing she won't get through it).... and watching her fight through recovery.... unable to move on the bed, getting fluid in her lungs and going back to hospital multiple times. Set Backs. the wounds heal.... I also thought it'd take only months and it ended up 2 years now and we are still going....(And I thought I'd be away from New York for 6 months and it ended up 5 years) When you got as old as I am.... You know.... time "constraint" doesn't really meant that much.... Life changes.... and you just change with it. and every experiences counts... good or bad. You'd find people who really cares.... and those you thought were, actually not, once the glory is gone or the money or when you are not in the "same zone" with them. and you make some new ones. You know what they always say.... God don't give you anything you can't handle... and when He/ She want you to learn something.... first it's a knock on the head.... then it's a brick..... then it's a brick wall.... perhaps.... Patience is the lesson.... or letting go..... or aim further (not higher).... Just remember, you got a couple of partners in crime here with you. (God, Hilary and Aspen) perhaps He's asking you to take the time and really appreciate them, life, or make some jokes. Trust me.... when you're 50... that heat pack will always be there by the bed. Then you'd say fuck it. just heat it up and get on with it... I got life to live through today. (me too have a swollen right foot..... nerve/ ligament scar pain.... every morning.... rainy days.... plane ride.... car ride.... even long office hour.... you name it.... the pain is there, but that's just getting old.... and life...) You're steele young. So, Go get em. one small step at a time. Do the work.... for the heart and the body. God is with you. Have faith.... even when it is 'a' test-ing (pun intended)
It's so hard I'm 8 weeks post op on Tuesday and I'm still not walking 😢I broke 3 bones tore ligaments . I start therapy though on Tuesday as well.im on at 50% WB and on the crutches..my foot is so weak I'm not even walking yet in the boot I have alot of pain around the ankle basically
I'm so sorry that you have been hurting so much. I have only had surgery to remove my wisdom teeth so I don't count that. But, if I can encourage you, I have dealt with the process of finding out I have an autoimmune disorder. The frustration and fear of not knowing what is going on in your body can be overwhelming and I remember it still. My faith was definitely tested when I got the diagnosis because there is no cure. Hearing that at 25 I have a lifelong illness made me so angry. I took refuge in Paul's exortation to be angry and sin not. God knows our pain, our weakness, our fear, our anger towards Him, and He is not put off by any of it. I believe He wants us to bring those feelings to Him so that He can help us. I found much more comfort and intimacy with God when I started bringing Him the ugly in my heart instead of trying hide it under Christianese or doing it in my own strength. Through the process He has proved Himself faithful to me. But I have had to completely surrender my thoughts and plans for the process. He is doing His thing and we have to choose daily whether we will trust who He says He is over what we feel and see. Obviously, I don't know what the rest of the updates explain, but I hope this encouraged you and I'm excited to continue with you on this journey!
So much goodness in this comment! Thank you so much for the encouragement!
Now i see this is 4 years old how are you now?
That is a very involved cup of coffee.
How's swelling
I'm 1 week after surgery, still in hospital and it is HELL I am not looking forward to the next few weeks.
Sorry that I cannot offer you any specific remedy to help. One suggestion is that you get in touch with Floyd Landis former pro cyclist. He sells products derived from Cannabis plants that claim to help with pain issues. His website is Floyd's of Leadville might be worth a try.
How are you doing today? Please post
Just posted!
Does coffee slow fascia healing
No clue 🤷🏼♂️
@@Steele_Johnson like pitin and xi
Coffee is addictive. And apparently time consuming
I just enjoy this process of preparing it! Very calming :)