I was ran over by a car in February of 2022. It broke my right shoulder and my right leg in 3 places. It broke the fibula above the ankle and below the knee and then shattered the tibia (shin) bone and it came out thru my calf muscle. I was airlifted and spent 10 days in a trauma center, 5 weeks in a wheelchair, 6 months of physical therapy 5 days a week, and since then had to learn how to walk again. At first they thought I wouldn't make it to the hospital, then they thought I'd lose my leg. They wanted to amputate but one of the surgeons agreed to do a very risky surgery that would make for a very difficult recovery, and I'm very thankful to him that he allowed me to make that decision and risk it. But its been rough.
During the process, I had just really let myself go from anxiety and depression and lost all my muscle and gained a lot of fat.
I started back cleaning my diet up Feb. 2023 and from Feb to June lost about 40 lbs. I was pretty happy with that being that it was just supplements and a not too strict diet and no exercise.
In June, I was able to start back really easing into working out and then July was able to resume a very careful what I used to would have considered normal workout routine, but minus cardio. I have not been able to start doing cardio again I'm having to take things very careful with my leg. I'm doing a quick cut right now, and have been considering starting to try to add some light cardio in after Halloween. I wanted to wait until after Halloween in case there's a setback with my leg, I didn't want to mess up my daughter's Halloween.
Since July, I've been doing a lot of supplements and been very happy with the amount of muscle I've put back on and strength I've gained back. But I've had to have quite a few self help talks along the way to slow myself down and not wind up hurting myself and remind myself that just because I can go up in strength doesn't mean that I should haha.
