I know you don't show pain much, but it really is eye opening to see the recordings of you at the time describing the pain. That's such a vulnerable moment you let us see, and that takes a while other level of strength! You impress me everyday! And I'm sure you'll appreciate knowing that you pulled my heart strings on that one 😉 (seeing your kids with the music and the story you told was beautiful). Not to mention I had to laugh every time it cut to you with the melting ice cream! You strike a perfect balance!

I’m a BK amputee. They left my nerve blockers in for a few days. I felt little pain. When they took them out, in a few hours I experienced the worst pain I have ever experienced. I was literally seeing colors as they came in waves. Fortunately a nurse was passing by and heard me, and came back with morphine. I am six months along now and I still experience a lot of phantom pain and I always feel the foot. I’m on Gabapentin still but not painkillers.

I'm so sorry (and surprised) you had to experience so much pain after the amputation. I never talked about this with other amputees. I guess I just assumed that everybody more or less experienced something similar to what I had to go through. And I was extremely 'lucky' in that respect. The pain before the amputation was unbearable. And I was affraid the amputation itself would be very painful (right after surgery), but it wasn't. The nerve blocks worked really well. I didn't feel any pain at all. Then I was affraid for the moment they would remove the nerve blocks, but nothing changed. I'm lucky to say I never felt pain again. Except that one time after 5 days when I had a severe case of phantom pain. It sustained for hours and it drove me mad. I decided to sit on the edge of my bed and I started to wiggle my amputated leg. It helped, the pain went away. I never had physical pain again. Every once in a while I feel some stings or shocks, or something like a burning sensation in my phantom leg, but it's gone as soon as I feel it. Hell, this was 8 years ago and I never even felt sick since then. I hate to say I'm lucky, because I did lose my leg. And I loved my leg. I miss it. I miss it a lot. But the mental pain for me is the only pain I feel, so maybe this makes me the lucky one. I'm sorry for me babbling for so long. I don't get to talk to fellow amputees so often. Have you been looking for this handbike-wheelchair combination already? 😊

Dude! You gave Burning, Muscle Ache AND Bone Ache a 6 (SIX) on the pain scale…….GANGSTA for real bro!!!

I feel your pain sister! I’m a double AKA after 3 amputations. 2 years in hospital or nursing homes. It does get better. Just learning now how to walk with stubbies!

Another great video. So for me the post op pain was less than my bad foot was as well. I did get spikes of pain while I was still in the hospital. And I always have phantom sensation it feels like my foot is still there all the time. sometimes it eels like my toes are being crushed in to small of A shoe. I only seem to get real phantom pain at night after A long day in the socket. when it happens it feels like my original injury. I just thank my lucky stars that I don't have real problems with phantom pain. It seems like our Hospital stays were pretty close to the same. I have to say the first 2 months I took all my pain meds. The irst time ever that I finished them. thank you for another super good video. It got me thinking about just how far I have come in the last ten months. I was in A walking boot for close to two years it really slowed me down. Now with my trusty prosthetic that I'm doing almost every thing that I was doing before. Amputation turned out to be A way bigger deal than I thought It was A long road from surgery to getting fit for my prosthetic. any how thank you so much for your hard work here Stay strong.

You have the most beautiful and positive energy.

I had A similar experience with the pain scale until a nurse told me that discomfort and real pain is different. She said you don't have to be A tough guy around here. I did have A pretty good experience after my amputation. One Strang thing was for A few months while laying down it felt like my missing parts where up in the air. I guess because they weren't touching the bed.

When Grandad’s first leg was amputated above the knee, it would spasm and stand straight up. He said that hurt a lot. I hope your pain isn’t too bad anymore.

Watching that ice cream get meltier and meltier cracked me up.

I'm your biggest fan!!

That third day after surgery is the worst. All the stuff the gave you for the surgery has worn off and you really feel things.

Not so sure that's still ice cream, lol. More like a milk shake.

For me, what hurt the most was the realization that you’ll never walk normally again