The Cripple Chronicles

12.12.19 I left the house to take my ex to work and my whole life changed in the space of half an hour. 4 years of literal blood, sweat and tears. I never knew what was coming that day and it has taken me a lot of work to get to the point I am at today. I hope you enjoy the format I took for this episode, it is actually one I am extremely proud of. 

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I recorded this a couple of months ago, but life got in the way and my mental health took a dip, but it's here at last!

This episode of the Cripple Chronicles, I wanted to talk about the things that are in place to make my life more accessible as an ambulatory wheelchair user. I had my leg amputated in 2022 after a car accident at the end of 2019. I got this idea from a short video I had seen on instagram and then in the next episode I want to talk about when things aren't accessible.

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This episode of the Cripple Chronicles, I touch on what has been happening mentally with me for the past few weeks while I haven't been keeping up with uploads. In the time that I have been away, I celebrated the first year since having my leg amputated and the things I have been able to achieve in that year. Enjoy!

P.s - I noticed when editing that I had said Burger Island didn't have a toilet, it might, it just couldn't see it and didn't ask.. 

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TRIGGER WARNING - blanket trigger warning for discussion of mistreatment in medical settings, abuse and self harm. I have tried to indicate when speaking where particularly triggering parts may be and have also detailed in the timestamps.

This episode I get into talking about where I am at with some struggles in my recovery with a couple of appointments I had in the last week. And then I had a bit of a rant about health services and the government following some discussions I've had with friends over the past few weeks.

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DISCLAIMER: all of my views are shared through personal experience, and through experience of people I know. This is just my personal viewpoint on the things discussed in this episode. 

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
02:19 Thought process for this episode 
04:19 CPN appointment
11:03 Prosthetics appointment and chatting to my physio 
23:38 My feelings processing the appointment 
29:39 A nice story from my nursing training 
35:00 TRIGGER WARNING: Mistreatment in mental health wards
41:53: TRIGGER WARNING SELF HARM
42:49: Continuing to talk about mistreatment in wards
46:18 Pain team and chronic pain management 
49:03 Ranting about health services and the government spending 
51:03 Poetry section
58:50 Outro

This episode I get into talking about my second and third year of uni and the challenges I faced with nearly being kicked out and told I would possibly need to go in front of an NMC board for misconduct. I didn't even know if I was going to be able to graduate. I also wanted to touch on the reasonings of why I feel like I can't go back to working in nursing with the current system we have in place in the UK.

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I decided that I wanted to chat a bit about life before the accident and the three years before where I felt like I had to really fight with myself and the uni to get my degree and my registration as a nurse. I realised I had a lot more to say than I initially thought so pls tune in to the next episode to hear the rest of the journey.

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This episode I chat about what disenfranchised grief is, chatting through research that was done involving grief and PTSD following road traffic accidents. As well as my input on my mental health.

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This episode is talking about the process of cosmetic limb lengthening through using Ilizarov frames or internal lengthening nails. Join me as I look at the reasons why people might choose to go down this route and some studies on this topic.

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This is following on from last weeks episode, some of the things that I have managed to do in the 9 months since amputation. It feels absolutely wild that its almost been a year, but I am so excited for what comes next.

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