Rocket3015
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Your help is always appreciated
Steve (sns8778)
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sns8778
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Thank you so much. Email me or get in touch sometimes, I would love to catch up.
It's been a really rough year both physically and mentally.
I'm in pain every minute of every day unfortunately.
Physically, the recovery is a long slow process and no way of knowing for sure if I'll ever be able to walk normally again. I would say that I hobble more than I can walk, and anytime I stand up, I have to wait awhile before I can take a step or put weight on my leg bc if I do it too quickly it causes intense pain and will give out on me. And its very difficult to get in and out of my Jeep - so much so that a lot of mornings I'll sit in the parking lot and wait a few minutes before getting out because I dread how bad its going to hurt.
The physical part sucks but the mental and emotional part is by far the worst - just not being able to do basic stuff that I used to enjoy and never knowing if I'll be able to again. Plus, I'm still behind at work and pretty much at life bc of the accident so the level of stress and being overwhelmed has me pretty much feeling like I'm drowning and an inch away from a panic attack pretty much all the time.
Thank you for checking in and checking on me though. I'm trying my best to stay positive or at least fake it as much as I can haha.
sns8778
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Thank you so much. I really appreciate that, more than you know.
This has been the roughest year of my life mentally/emotionally and kind words and positivity really does help. Thank you.
grovemule
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Optimize T for the win. I can't brag it up enough. I'm 67. It makes me feel like a young buck.
sns8778
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That's great to hear - I'm so glad that you love Optimize-T.
CaribouMT
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I work in physical therapy, and I have really seen some ****, and I do want you to know that with consistent, hard (but appropriate for your level!) work, the pain and function do almost always get better. Please don't succumb to apathy and despair. Recovery is a long road, but in much the same way as trying to get shredded, you get there one day at a time, and by never giving up. Find the best rehab therapists you can and work hard with them, every step of the way. You've got this.
sns8778
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Thank you. I really truly appreciate the kind positive words and encouragement.
CaribouMT
New member
You're welcome. It's very easy to fall into despair and think that things will never be normal again, but I've seen someone get hit by a car and have to have TWELVE vertebrae fused (absolutely massive number), had a huge scar all the way down his back, and 18 months later after extensive rehab, he was almost completely out of pain, just minor occasional aches, and was fully functional except for some ROM limitations in his shoulders. Not even a cane after.
You've got this.
pharrison1
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sns8778
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Most likely within the next 2 weeks.
I included ways for people to get it before its released in with some of the Pepti-Plex specials to let people know about it and have some fun with it, and I thought some people would be excited to be able to get it before the official release.
For the official release itself, its just important that we space the launch out a few weeks away from Pepti-Plex so it doesn't get overshadowed. Too many times, we've made the mistake of launching things too close together and one would wind up getting really overshadowed by the other one.
If you're wanting to try it early, I may be able to help. Feel free to pm me.
sammpedd88
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His accident was over a year and a half ago. But he’s doing well and is very active in this forum. His products are top notch also.
sns8778
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Thank you for the kind words. I really appreciate that.
And no worries, kind words and well wishes are always appreciated any time.
The accident was in February of 2022 and its been a very rough time since. I was in a wheelchair for quote awhile followed by 6 months of physical therapy 5 days a week, and then having to learn how to walk again.
I still have to be very careful when stepping over anything or stepping sideways, and its hard to do things like getting into and out of a vehicle and stuff like that. Pain wise, its pretty constant but that's kind of a part of life at this point.
After the accident, I had really let myself go because of the anxiety and depression and not being able to do anything, and I had lost a lot of muscle and gained a lot of fat. Back in Feb., I started cleaning my diet up and lost 40 lbs. from Feb to June and then was able to start back working out in mid-June of this year. I had to take it really easy the first month and still have to be very careful, but since mid-July I've been focused on trying to gain back a lot of the muscle that I've lost.
As of last weekend, I've gained back about 28 lbs. while decreasing my waist by about half an inch so overall I'm pretty pleased with the progress. I've been going on all out of my supplement stack trying to build back muscle, but I'm going to change things up a bit and try to lose some fat over the next 4 to 6 weeks. I'm still staying with my stack for building back up, but added back in a lot of my fat loss stack that had helped so much earlier this year. I hadn't lost all the fat I wanted to lose, but I had lost so much muscle that I was really self conscious about that, so that's why I had started focusing on that back in July. I was still trying to lose fat, the emphasis was just on building muscle. Now, I still want to build muscle, but the emphasis is on losing some fat over the next 4 to 6 weeks.
Thank you for the kind words and support and I hope that you enjoy the products that you ordered.