I’m Choosing Recovery First While I Go Back To School And Start A Flexible New Job

A single change rewrites the whole plan: what started as two surgeries has become one hip replacement, and that clarity ripples through everything—work, school, and the way we make and share our work. We open up about the decision to prioritize healing, the relief of a simpler surgical path, and the honest timelines that follow: earliest return to work in March, with June looking smarter for a full, stable comeback.

We walk through how recovery will actually look, from pre-op clearances to rehab schedules to the choice to avoid hospital Wi‑Fi chaos and record from home and the rehab center instead. Alongside the medical plan, school becomes a new anchor. Communications is the academic focus, with options on the table for a double path—bachelor’s plus master’s or two master’s across schools—depending on how rehab unfolds and what support we can secure from the Office of Disabilities. Access, accommodations, and pacing are non-negotiable, and we share what’s working and what’s not when it comes to getting help.

There’s a backstory, too: a birthday fall, delayed care, and an ER that didn’t believe what the body knew. That experience reshaped how we advocate, prepare questions, and push for answers. On the home front, a broken medical bed and constant logistics test patience, but they’ve also forced a cleaner setup and calmer routines. A flexible online side job will run in the background, with links in the notes, but health leads the strategy. Expect candid updates, realistic goal-setting, and content that respects the energy it takes to heal and learn at the same time.

If you’re juggling recovery, education, and work, this is a roadmap built on pacing, self-advocacy, and sustainable habits. Subscribe to follow the journey, share this with someone facing a tough timeline, and leave a review with your best tip for healing without losing your momentum.

Chapters

• 0:00 Big Announcement And Health Update
• 0:31 One Surgery Instead Of Two
• 1:17 Work Pause And School Plans
• 2:44 Content Plans Around Rehab
• 4:15 How The Injury Happened
• 6:09 Disability Support And Daily Strain
• 7:34 Degree Paths And Career Direction
• 9:56 Timelines, Clearances, And Capacity
• 12:25 Multi‑Level Marketing Side Job
• 13:48 January Go Time And Closing

Transcript

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Welcome to a different shape heart, you guys. Um today Dan the Yo and I are going to be talking about uh announcement I'm making. Daniel's and full agreement of this announcement because I will be doing it. Apparently, um I don't need the other surgery I thought I did as of this morning. I mean as of yesterday, I was about to sign myself up for two surgeries. Um hip replacement and a abductor release, but apparently I only need a hip replacement because apparently my leg is coming down with the hip replacement, so I'm so excited about that. But I um won't be going back to work until June of next year. If not, um March. The earliest I could be going back to work is March. The latest would be June. I'll be latest because it's a hip replacement. I want my body to heal as much as it can. Plus, I am going back to school. Officially on December 18th, I'm going back to school. So that is that. And I also have a new job online part-time. Well, I can do it whenever I want, but I also have a new job online part-time. I'll put a link in the show notes. And so the earliest I'll be going back to work is June because of the hip replacement. Um having that done in January, so the well, the b beginning of January, I won't be moving. The middle of January, I will be, but I will be in the hospital slash in rehab, which therefore I will be in rehab. I will be creating content. I just can't and will not be creating content in the hospital because hospital wifi fires hospital wifi and stinks. So therefore, um therefore I need to create um content when I can, where I can, which will be at rehab at my house, but when I get home, I will be um probably half asleep because um I will probably take time off to recover. I mean, uh hip replacement is a hip replacement. So basically, um for those of you that don't know, they're taking my hip out, they're taking the ball out, they're taking the hip out, and replacing it with uh titanium rib. No, it's not bone-on-bone yet, but it is 50% out, so therefore um it needs to come out. Yes, I fell on my birthday. Yes, I didn't deal with it until July, as you guys all know, but at the same time, yes, I should have dealt with it in June. Yes, that would have been smart, but at the same time, I don't think the teaching hospital when I went would have believed me in June either, because um they barely believed me in July. I mean, they said, no, your hip is not out in the emergency room, and I keep saying my hip is out, my hip is out, my hip is out, and they keep saying I don't we don't see it out. And even the nurse who took care of me said this doesn't look good, so I don't know what their um issues were with not doing the hip replacement then and there, but um all popping the hip back in, I don't know. But basically, um I am signed up for a hip replacement, but I won't be going back to work until June because of school and because of the hip replacement. Now I'm trying to get in contact with the Office of Disabilities. Um so um I am trying to get in contact with the Office of Disabilities for School. That is becoming a challenge more and more because yeah. So anyway, I just have a lot going against me right now. A lot going on and a lot going against me right now. I mean, yeah, I don't want to get into what I had to fight this morning. I had to fight for my own peace in my own bed, basically. So um that's what I had to fight with. I have um medical hospital grade bed, and of course, it's broken. It's broken after five months, so I had to fight the company to believe me, and it's yeah. They're coming out here tomorrow to fix it, and they're if they can't fix it, they're giving me a mental bed while they do fix my bed. So it's like I just want surgery at this point, and I just want um surgery at this point, and I just want to be mobile, and I just want to go to school, which yeah, which I will be getting a master's degree. I know what in I will probably be getting a double master's degree. I know what in double bachelor's degree I know what in, but um I will probably do it as a double um bachelor's degree I channel and then get my master's in counseling or um doing as a double master's degree. Haven't decided yet, but I'm definitely going to go get a degree in communications and then see where that leads me, and then I'm going to either go get uh does a bachelor's degree in something and a master's degree or get a double master's degree from two um separate schools. And so yeah, we'll see. We'll see what they say and well I mean what they say, we'll see what my hip replacement, how my hip replacement goes, how I'm recovering, and then the earliest I can come back to work is March. The latest would be June. And so I'll just be focused on school and focused on my hip replacement. I won't be focused on um until March, if not June, probably June, yes. It's gonna probably be June, and if I sound exhausted, that's because I am and yeah, because I have too much going on right now. Way too much going on right now, and uh I'm just at this point waiting for my surgery date. Um I have clearances I gotta do and so yeah. So I've got clearances and then we've got um clearances and then we've got everything else, so we've I've got cleances and school, so I've my plate is full, but um other than that I'm doing okay. And so I will basically um keep you guys keep everyone updated in December and then Jan the UI is go time, and as I said, I won't be back to work until um the earliest March, the latest June, but probably June, because I can handle um I have to see how school is going before I add on uh another my this being one of my jobs, my podcasts being one of my jobs, my other job. And so I have to see how school's going before I add on work, work with the other job and work with um my podcast. The other job is multi-level marketing, so that's starting up and I'll put the link in the show notes. But um I will put a link in the show notes, but um as I said, I have to see how school's going before I add anything else on top of it. A hip replacement is bad enough. So Danielle, do you wanna leave out thank you for following us what she said, and I will um catch you guys later, and we'll take it from there guys, and we'll I'll see you guys next week, and then we won't see you guys. I'll probably see you guys at the beginning of Jan the UA and then Jan the UA 12th says go time, and as I said, I won't be creating content in the hospital, I will be creating content at home and at um the rehab facility when and if I have time. So um definitely when I get home I will be creating content. But yeah, thank you for following us, and we will catch you guys next week. Bye you guys.

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Bye.