So this
Is my hand fully customized hand .
you have to be willing to find the light though
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And that what you're going through is going to bring you
Further into who you're supposed to be and your calling and find the good in it
So welcome back to my channel if it's your first time here, my name is Kristie Sita and we post videos every Wednesday and
Friday
Today I am tackling the reason
Why do I not wear my prosthetic hand!
Because in case you guys didn't know I did get a prosthetic hand
In my first prosthetic appointments from the very beginning after I had my accident four years ago
what they said to me right away is especially being a 16 year old girl that I was gonna want to cosmetic hand and in
Cosmetic hand that can have some sort of function to do some sort of something
just because I didn't really know at that point how I was gonna take the accident and how it's gonna adapt and so they're like
you need to get a hand and so I
Got a hand and so the process of getting the hand was to get the base done
which I use for my other prosthetic names is also use it in the gym only and
so we take that base and then you also had to create a
Customized hand because it would look super super strange if I just had like a
you know like it a
Crappy hand, I guess so we made a fully customized hand that does have function to it
And so what that process looks like is they had to pretty much do an outline of my current hand current hand
wow, they do do an outline of my
remaining hand..
they had to do an outline of my hand to get the same size essentially for this one
And so they did an outline of it
they took pictures of it of the back side and the front side so they can get everything down from like my fingernails to my
wrinkles to everything that they would need to make it as customized as possible and
So that took a couple weeks I'd say to get that done and finally I got it and this is the outcome
So
This is a fully customized hand. That should look exactly like my other hand. It's got everything from fingernails
You can see that you can paint and wrinkles. It's got everything from like my palm wrinkles to
also, if you're seeing that a black sharpie, it's because it was somehow in like my supplies kit drawer, which I
Don't really know how that happened.
so this
Is my hand fully customized it looks exactly like
Wow, how weird it that
Yeah, so this hand is actually connects to my prosthetic base which actually connects to a strap and connects around my shoulder
So that is the full deal
I'm going to show you what that looks like
So this is the base of my prosthetic which will eventually go over my arm. this
Little piece will go into the end of it. This is just gonna pretty much
Clip in like that. that's my hand. First things first to get on my base, I have to put on my liner
And
So what the liner does is it has this little tweaky thing will actually screw into the bottom of my prosthetic
so it stays on and so it won't fall off
very important and so that just looks like
Pretty much. I just put my hand in
So that should be clipped in now. So now this part here, it's just gonna screw it onto my arm
And that leaves me with
the main look of my arm, so
First things first with this let's just put it into perspective of the length
So pretty much because you can see on this prosthetic it starts where the wrist is right, which is right here, but my arm
Splits literally at my wrist. So this is actually adds this much length to my arm
You guys can see that it's super long. It's super long and like
Like that's a big difference in arm length am I right?
I'm right so that creates more problems than it does solutions because now I'm constantly working with an uneven
Length, which is super super frustrating which unfortunately this is nothing that my prosthetic guy could do
this is just simply because of where my
amputation ends and it's just a problem that I'll kind of always have but it is amazing because since I do have so much
Arm remaining that I am fully functional to just use myself and I don't necessarily need a prosthetic to do day-to-day things
However, I'm going to show you what this can actually do. And so what's my prosthetic? Actually it comes with a second piece
So pretty much what I'm doing here is it comes with the shoulder strap which goes around my other shoulder and what happens now is
Go to school with my backpack
And yeah, so the purpose of this is so that I could actually you know
Pick up a broom or pick up a cup or hold something or even write a pen. Whatever
I really wanted to do I could use that just with and the way this works is
Pretty much when I move my shoulder forward it will
Open and close
So that's just literally me going like this again, it's not super convenient so
That is really the main reason why I don't wear my prosthetic is just because it doesn't add value
It doesn't add solutions. It just adds more problems
I would say and it's just a harder skill to get used to it
And I find it just makes me almost more imbalance than when I just use my stump. Also, I acknowledged it
It probably super weird to see me talking with two hands right now
Because this is really not normal cuz you would normally be looking at my stump
But this is me with two hands but don't get used to it because it's never coming back
And yeah, so for me using no prosthetic just works best because this is not super functional
It's not in my best interest
And so right now I'm just sticking to using my stump and using prosthetics for in the gym
Which I do use every single day. So when I'm in the gym, you just take off this part of the hand
haha Throw back. but on this I would just attach like my working out clamp or my flat surface
Which you guys have seen in my prosthetic videos at the gym
Check the link up there. If you haven't seen them yet. You can check them out
But yeah, so this face is super functional the hands not so much is not so functional
I just choose to you know, keep doing life the way I'm supposed to with one hand and for me that works
I know everyone's amputation is different and every one stump is different and maybe if my arm wasn't so long I can make this work
Better but personally for me right now in my life. This is just what works for me
It's just using my arm and my hand because you know
I still got one remaining so I can use it
Challenge for you guys as you saw how hard it is for me to actually function with this prosthetic. I've got a challenge
So if you guys can comment down below and if you get this video to 500 likes I will
Wear this prosthetic for 24 hours doing everything in my daily life with it on so comment down below
Give this video thumbs up and if we get it to 500
I'm going to take this thing around with me for a day and see
What happens
Hopefully we get there and hopefully I can give this a try because I honestly think I'd be really really fun
But I need your eyes this help and I need your support to get me there. So I love you
Thank you so much for watching and I will see you guys in my next video. Bye