Bust it out. That’s great. Reppin like 12 times huh
Do the good people of BZ “exercise”?
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oui. i lift 3x per week and run 3x per week
body and mind, people
body and mind, people
Does your weight stack have a pulley like this or is the cable attached directly to the weights?
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Do you free dive at all? That wreck has some tasty fish just waiting to get punctured
Haha yeah, visibility sucked when I went though
I've barely been able to walk for 16 months. I have to deal with the VA and they're basically wanting me to suffer and die.
what state you live in?
Deadlifts with light weight, bone broth soup, and supplemental glycine my friend.
Wish it were that simple, bro.
Been through chiropractic care, dry needling, acupuncture, physical therapy, pain management, and I've been getting many spine injections from January to July of this year, nothing helps. Only think that is left is surgery.
Seriously, I pass out from pain from time to time, I have to keep smelling salts near me so I don't pass out and die from hitting my head on anything. Pain hits 10 numerous times throughout the day. I can't hardly walk, it's been brutal. The VA crippled me. I was in the best shape of my life 2 1/2 years ago, and going through the VA with some medical problems, they've crippled me more than the 15 deployments I've been on.
Looks like an L5-S1 microdiscectomy is the perfect solution for my problem, but haven't been able to get the VA to do anything. 16 months suffering with this injury and a simple outpatient surgery that's approximately 45 minutes long that has a 3-6 week recovery time just blows my mind. I could've been fixed over a year ago, but they don't want to fix us, they want us to suffer and die.
Indiana.
That sucks man, I hope you feel better and are able to get the help you need.
Me too. Affects everything. Probably big reason why I've been testy lately
<3 frensJeez man, I hate to read stuff like this.
May I ask what the inciting incident was?
If I may critique modern medicine, and put my own spin on things: modern western medicine is so caught up in selling surgeries and treatments (treatment being the opposite of solution) that they ignore the body's tendency to heal itself given proper stimulus and nutrition. I have come through a bad shoulder injury and back injury in recent years, and a very bad knee injury many years ago, through self-administered physiotherapy and absolutely no doctor visits because doctors are head-ass idiots very far removed from the reality of our body's ability for self repair (notwithstanding bullet holes and limbs hanging on by a thread of ligament, and other extremes).
I share this not as a "if I can do it, you can too" smugness, but rather a "trust the process, shared joy is double joy shared sorrow is half sorrow" point of view.
Innovation may be additive, but solution is reductive.
I want only for your pain to be reduced to zero.
While waiting for the nightmare of American healthcare and veteran services to run its course, try a firm mattress, support your spine, stimulate and nourish your spinal erectors, fast to induce autophagy, reduce body weight, walk more, and lift light things off the ground in a controlled fashion.
Love you bro.
P.S. if you want me to just shut up and eff off, I xan do that. I do know how infuriating it can be when outsiders dont understand the struggle and offer shitheaded advice like "I understand your hardship because one time I dropped my sandwich".
Sorry if I came across as smug or shitheaded.
Sorry if I came across as smug or shitheaded.
Came back from Afghanistan in January 2021 with a broken bone in my foot. There's a clause with overseas contractors where if you get injured you can get on DBA, or Defense Base Act, basically if you get injured in the course of your duties you can get paid a percentage of what you normally would per month and the company you're contracted through/government would pay for your medical expenses to get you back to operational status, or if you were too fucked up, they'd give you a nice settlement and send you on your way.
There were nightmare stories of guys I worked with that went on DBA, docs messed them up or they were healed enough to go back to work but the company or client put them on the bench for months or years as punishment for going on DBA or DBA refused to pay for their medical bills or refused to pay out anything. Most guys that get hurt overseas suck it up, wait until they get home, try to heal themselves, then get back to work ASAP.
Well, I went to the VA as soon as I got back in January of 2021. They misdiagnosed me for 4 months before they finally admitted I had a broken bone in my foot. Then they sent me to physical therapy, pain management, and other podiatrists. They messed me up so bad they turned 1 broken bone in my foot to 3. It took 14 months for my foot to finally heal. I was in a walking boot/CAM boot/post surgery shoe for about 9 months. With the thick ass soles of those boots, it threw off my gait and fucked up my lower back. By the time my foot was fully healed and I could start walking and exercising in regular tennis shoes again, I immediately herniated the disc in my lower back.
Now the VA refuses to see me about my injury. They're basing their assumptions off of imaging. It's criminal and malpractice especially for public servants that we pay their salary for to refuse to even meet a patient in person. Been contacting Congresswoman Spartz, Indiana senators, VA regional director, everyone that I can think of. The ball is rolling, but they're hoping I'd just go away and die so they don't actually have to work.
I was scheduled to be in Afghanistan in June-July-August of 2021 during the pull-out. Due to the VA's horrendous practices, I couldn't make that deployment and it really fucked with me that I couldn't be there when everything was popping off and all of my buddies were.
Here's pic of my back:
lol not at all man.
Jeez man, I have nothing to add.
Ironically, your recounting of DBA benching and punishment is very similar to how guys get treated up here regarding WSIB (our version of worker's compensation for injury) in the construction world.
Keep fighting, keep making noise, win first then go to battle. I hope you get the positive solution you deserve.
Ironically, your recounting of DBA benching and punishment is very similar to how guys get treated up here regarding WSIB (our version of worker's compensation for injury) in the construction world.
Keep fighting, keep making noise, win first then go to battle. I hope you get the positive solution you deserve.
Trying brother.
Instead of the VA allowing me to see a doctor/surgeon, they sent armed agents of the state to my door last Tuesday. How unreal is that? They won't let me see a doctor, but they'll send cops to my door, probably hoping to get me into a standoff with police, instead of actually fixing me.
VA is the #1 reason why vets kill themselves in my opinion.
Holy shit, Covert. That's fucking awful. Have you contacted an attorney at all? It might not help anything but it could be worth a try.