Amanyea bouncing back after serious knee injury
pounds post-surgery.
She said social media users only saw parts of her journey.
“But I went through a lot more than I chose to share. I was bedridden for six weeks and sent to hospital because of bad reactions to the pain medicines,” Amanyea said.
As a result, she journeyed through approximately half of her recovery without pain medication. Eight weeks post-surgery, she began physiotherapy.
“It was mostly low impact exercises. I started with the basic, leg raises, bend and straighten, no walking at first. Then as time passed, I started walking ... still in crutches, then I moved from two crutches to just one. I apparently moved a lot faster than expected,” she said.
It took Amanyea three and a half months to start walking on her own two feet again, even though doctors initially expected a recovery time of six to nine months.
But Amanyea still has a way to go before she’s back in top form.
“I am still in recovery and will be for a little while. I am walking but struggle with ‘normal’ things still, and I have pain here and there,” she said.
DOING THERAPY
As her journey continues, Amanyea does aquatic therapy with Therapy by Terri, along with low-impact exercises. “I am lucky to also have a physiotherapist, who is also a friend. She was uplifting, pushes when I need it and always has the right words to say,” she said. She advised persons to use their support system when times get hard. “If I didn’t have my friends and my family around, especially my mother, Dr L’Antoinette Stines, I wouldn’t have made it this far. She did everything for me, bathe me, feed me, everything when I couldn’t (do them) myself,” she said.
While she takes her time to massage her knee back to fullhealth, she is pushing the pedal on her music career.
“I am lucky to have two loves, music and dance. I have been working on my music career for about four years now and I had my debut performance on August 22. I have major plans and I jut want you to wait and see,” she said.
Her single, Aye Aye, is set to be released on September 7 along with a music video.