A different shaped heart conversations about disability awareness
Welcome to A different shaped heart conversations about being awesome with a disability and raising awareness at the same time and absolutely Yes sometimes you have to say F…..CK you to your own mindset and especially your disability!
A different shaped heart conversations about disability awareness
When A Birthday Becomes A Milestone For Healing
A new name signals a new season—and we’re opening the door on a deeply personal journey. I’m heading into a hip replacement with cerebral palsy on January 12, and I’m inviting you to see the real process: the planning, the pain, the awkward logistics, and the small wins that make recovery possible. No gloss, no vague updates—just clear, candid storytelling that follows the road from hospital to rehab and back to daily life.
We talk through why the rebrand matters and how it connects to a bigger mission: disability awareness that lives in the details. I share where to follow along—YouTube at she13win and short daily clips on TikTok and Shorts—plus the nuts and bolts of filming in medical settings, working around Wi‑Fi limits, and pacing updates around energy. You’ll hear how a birthday became a milestone that links the original injury to a future of full weight on both legs, why chosen family shaped my rehab choice, and how honest community turns isolation into momentum.
This conversation doesn’t hide the tough parts. Daily pain is part of the reality, and so are the unglamorous side quests, like dealing with a yeast infection while prepping for surgery. We get practical about timelines, school decisions, and what stable Wi‑Fi really means when connecting with listeners becomes a form of support. And because hope needs light, we set up a softer, joyful turn next week with a Disney cruise chat to balance the grind of rehab.
If you care about recovery stories, disability advocacy, and the truth behind orthopedic surgery, you’ll feel at home here. Subscribe, share this episode with someone facing rehab, and leave a review with the one question you want answered during the post‑op journey. Your questions will shape what we film and what we explain next.
Welcome to a different shaped haunt, you guys. Yes, formerly a winning haunt. Yes, I changed the name of the podcast and it will s be stuck with you guys for the rest of the time of the podcast. But we'll get to why in a minute. But first of all, I would like to say they scheduled my new um hip in January. January 12th will be the go date. So I will be producing content from rehab. Um I will be producing now. I can't necessarily show you um well maybe I can. Maybe I'll get special permission of me doing physical therapy so you can see uh hip replacement with cerebral palsy, but I will be recording TikToks and I will be making shots on my new YouTube channel, which is she the number 13 win. And it's youtube.com slash she13win. And that's gonna be my you new YouTube channel for um disability awareness, not in conjunction with this podcast, it's gonna be more disability awareness, and I'm going to have you guys walk through this journey of a hip replacement with me, but it's gonna be me more me um recording by myself because I don't think that I can record in the inpatient gym. I will see if I can one day, maybe my second to last, maybe my last day of play I can. And so, but you're going to at least heal the good, the bad, and the ugly of the hip replacement at age um 37. I it was interesting because I was talking to someone and I said, well, it's going to be full circle because by the time my birthday hits, I'll be able to put full weight on both my legs. And when the injury actually happened, the initial injury actually happened on my birthday, and so yeah. Right now I'm also dealing with lovely yeast infection, which is always fun. It's fun being a woman, and the yeast infection has nothing to do with cerepals, it's just a woman's thing that I'm also dealing with a yeast infection, which is lovely, and so between that and the broken hip, and yeah, I'm trying to get into school, as I said, but that's a little bit longer than I thought, and it's taking that process, it's taking a little bit longer, but once I get into school, that will keep me busy is well, but I'm debating whether I should um start after my hip replacement because the Wi-Fi uh is not gonna be very good in the hospital. And it's actually bad rehab. Um I didn't I just found out because the when I was up there originally in 2024, I see this is a rehab, Pima on the health Pima rehab is a original rehab that I got sent to um for my back. So I had my back done in April of 2024. Well, this is a rehab that they sent me to. Um this was their choice doc. Actually, it was my choice, but this is where they sent me, they gave me a list of rehabs, and my church family was up there. And when I say my church family, these people are not related um to me by blood, they're just my chosen family, just like Danny Ellis, even though she's my best friend, she's more like the sister I never had. And so my chosen family was up there visiting me um when the list came in to pick for me to go to rehab because I said from the get-go I was going to rehab for the second round of my back and I um I decided to go where my church family recommended because they had a lot of parishioners up there, they knew that space fairly, fairly well, and so I decided to um sold a little lead and I went up there for my knee, and so now I'm up to the elf of my hip, but they have stable Wi-Fi, so I'll be able to record up on there, so that should be good, but the go date is um January 12th, and I will be out for a good six weeks becoming um slash in rehab slash physical therapy. So you guys won't see me for you will see me on and off, you will see me in rehab, but you won't see me at the initial recovery um in the hospital. And yes, I'm in pain every single day. I'm up in pain as I record this, so yeah, that's been fun, and so this has put me through my paces. It's also giving me a new perspective on life. So with that, I'm gonna let Daniel leave us out, and we're going to catch you guys next week. Next week it's gonna be the Disney interview because life is life in for Daniel right now, and yeah, life is lifing for me, and life is life in for everyone. So next week is gonna be a light positive interview with Daniel talking about her Disney cruise. Thank you for following us. You guys, bye you guys.
