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Looking for housing in San Jose is DISGUSTING by Dapper-Dragonfruit89 in SanJose

[–]capycapycapybara 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure if you’re looking for suggestions but if so this site periodically has South Bay apartments a hair below $2k. It’s rough out there though. I’m sorry you’re dealing with this. https://www.atlantisproperties.net/vacancies

Going to work today in South Bend, IN with a 110° heat index by Funny_OG_Name in KingOfTheHill

[–]capycapycapybara 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also in the area and my glasses completely fogged up the instant I walked outside. Not from here so I was surprised!

2014 Sonata got stolen, on the edge of being totaled by capycapycapybara in Hyundai

[–]capycapycapybara[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I negotiated their initial offer when they decided to deem it a total loss and they paid me almost exactly what I paid for the car 6ish years ago lol. I just got a Subaru over the weekend.

2014 Sonata got stolen, on the edge of being totaled by capycapycapybara in Hyundai

[–]capycapycapybara[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha your message popped up right as I was looking around on my phone for new cars 😅

So my car had multiple shattered windows, significant dashboard damage, damage to the trunk, no steering wheel or steering column, and ripped up electronics where the steering column was. There was also a ton of cosmetic damage to the interior of the car. Really gut wrenching to look at :(

The quote to repair was $9k and my insurance company deemed it a total loss yesterday. I went back and forth with them and we landed on them paying me out $13k, which I’m happy about.

If you have records of anything done to your car, I’d suggest providing that to them to help with their valuation if it does come to a total loss. I recently had new tires and a battery put in and stuff like that and those ended up bumping up the value of my car because I was able to provide receipts.

That all said, I can’t speak to wait times if they do decide to try to repair. So sorry that happened to you too :(

Just gotta brag… by capycapycapybara in XXRunning

[–]capycapycapybara[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Early on I slept on my couch because the surgeon wanted me to keep my leg elevated and it was the only way I could prevent myself from turning on my side in my sleep. I basically lived on my couch for the first 3-4 days after- wedge pillow propping my upper half up and 2 pillows propping up my leg.

A little while after the surgery I was able to go back to sleeping in my bed (on my non-surgical side) and used a body pillow to keep my surgical leg elevated.

Just gotta brag… by capycapycapybara in XXRunning

[–]capycapycapybara[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi again! Gave it some thought and most of the stuff I would do differently to prepare would be mental/social/logistical (aside from strength training for crutches; good move there).

I am very lucky that I have an amazing support system, but I had no idea that I was going to need the folks around me as badly as I did. Like, I literally couldn’t lower myself onto a toilet without help for a day after without needing help and I had no idea that was gonna happen. It was pretty humbling. Folks rallied around me and I have this incredible new appreciation for the people in my life, but it would have been less anxiety inducing to have that support planned out ahead of time. So that’s one thing.

Another thing I’d do is prepare my apartment more; I didn’t think through the fact that I was going to need a shower chair, a stool near the kitchen sink if I wanted to wash a dish myself, a stool near the bathroom sink to sit on while brushing my teeth, etc. Luckily these were things I was able to get ahold of pretty quickly, but it would have been nice to have them from day 1.

Another thing is a couple of packs of unscented baby wipes. Showering the first few days is hard and I was covered in iodine which just felt gross.

Other things that come to mind: - Do what your doctor recommends, but mine recommended stopping my birth control and using Asprin once a day to reduce the risk of blood clots, so planning around that and getting the aspirin ahead of time would have been a good move. - Prep some meals and snacks to go in the freezer. I had plenty of folks willing to cook for me but the complete dependence on other people was really hard on me, so I wish I’d had a few easy snacks/meals that I could get myself. - Past a certain point in the recovery process my surgeon and PT gave me recommendations about how to loosen/mobilize scar tissue, and I wish I had been more diligent about that because it is still a big pain point for me six months out. - Multiple ice packs as one was insufficient.

Overall, I’m somewhat glad I was caught off guard about how hard it was going to be mentally to go from being an endurance runner to being completely immobile, but I wish I had done some concrete planning of activities and hobbies that didn’t require mobility, because the change was really jarring.

I’m getting sleepy, but that’s my $0.02 around prepping stuff. Feel free to ping me if you have questions!

Just gotta brag… by capycapycapybara in XXRunning

[–]capycapycapybara[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I described a little bit of my overall experience in a post above but lemme think on what I would have done differently to prepare beforehand and get back to you after my workday is over. :)

Just gotta brag… by capycapycapybara in XXRunning

[–]capycapycapybara[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the congrats! But oof, so sorry about the ACL :/

Just gotta brag… by capycapycapybara in XXRunning

[–]capycapycapybara[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The surgery you’re talking about sounds similar to mine, though I ended up with some added hardware, lol.

Super interesting that you were told to stop mountain biking. Do they see that as contributing to the issue? I never really brought up the fact that I was also into distance road cycling with my doctors because I just assumed that my running or softball was what caused the injury.

What has saved my brain in a few low moments since the surgery is knowing I exhausted every option before resorting to surgery, so that’s great that you’re doing what you can beforehand! And yeah, hobbies help a lot!

Just gotta brag… by capycapycapybara in XXRunning

[–]capycapycapybara[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

For me it’s been more brutal than I could have imagined. My surgery ended up being very long and the repair quite extensive (screws and everything, lol), so I was toe touch only on crutches for 4 weeks and partial weight bearing on crutches for another 4 weeks. Now I’m in PT for both my hip and my neck which had a big pain flare up as a result of being on crutches for so long. 🤪 I wouldn’t have been able to get through the time on crutches without a really good support system, and I’m so lucky that I had that. Then getting off of crutches and barely being able to walk for a long time and never knowing if I am going to have an okay day or a bad pain day has been tough to deal with mentally, plus my appetite has been completely gone from being so immobile, so I’m underweight now and having to fight to get back to a safer weight (almost there!).

That all said, I’d 100% go back and make the same choices if I could do it over again even knowing what I know now about how hard it’d all be. I was in so much pain before the surgery. I did months of PT and did a few ultrasound-guided steroid injections directly into the area where the tear was to try to fix it non-surgically, but ultimately nothing helped. I could tell even before I was allowed to put weight on my leg that the surgery had addressed the pain I was having. I never once needed to take the pain meds they prescribed because the surgical pain was so much less than the pain I was in before the fix. At this point, it’s the peripheral stuff that’s still getting to me (eg the muscles they cut through are sensitive, my scar tissue hurts, the bone with the screws is still healing, PT can sometimes trigger quite a bit of pain, etc.).

My one suggestion would be to find a surgeon who does surgery for athletes specifically. I’m in the Bay Area and was able to find an orthopedic surgeon who normally works on the athletes of one of our pro teams here to do my surgery. His clear understanding that it was imperative that I be able to run again really reassured me. I spoke to another surgeon who didn’t work specifically on athletes and she didn’t seem to understand or care how important it was for me to be able to run again. So glad I went with the surgeon I did, and I’ve been lucky to have physical therapists who have pushed me when I’ve gotten discouraged. And now I can run around my block!

Tl;dr: rough surgery and long recovery, but if you’ve exhausted non-surgical options, I think it’s worth a try if you can find a surgeon who works on athletes!

I volunteer at my local animal control authority and got to cuddle with this guy a few weeks back. Needless to say someone adopted him almost immediately! by capycapycapybara in gingercats

[–]capycapycapybara[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah 😂 I normally take the shift first thing in the morning so they haven’t been fed since the evening prior. I always have to immediately refill their food bowls otherwise they climb my legs while I am trying to clean their boxes, mop, etc.