![]() Walking again like he always wanted: On air. ![]() This Daniel Newman - the one soon to hit the road for a weekend of shows, anxious to reach the fresh grass tickling his toes from his lawn seats - has a message for those living with CRPS: And where that causes figurative pain in an office, it can cause real pain in a person. When the network is off, nothing works as it should. Seeing wasn’t necessary to believing.Īs an IT expert, that Daniel Newman is a man who understands connections and how electrical signals can get mixed up. ![]() His faith, sympathy and empathy were just as real. So that's a big win."Īs a therapist, that Daniel Newman was a man who understood that the pain felt by others was real. ![]() I can't wear them like I used to wear them, but I can still wear them. 3s and 4s are little bit more comfortable. 1, just simply because there will never be the impact the way 1s impacted. Every edition of Dan Newman always loved those shoes. He's a guy who's living his life, making his way to concerts and, yes, rebuilding his collection with fresh kicks. He's no longer the guy who, at the depths of his CRPS when it hurt too much, sold off his beloved collection of Air Jordan shoes. This is the Daniel Newman his kids - and the world - knows now. "It's nice to be that Superman and not the guy lying in a hospital bed," Newman said. To be able to see my kids not feel what I'm feeling, that’s the greatest gift. Sometimes I would just fall to the ground in excruciating pain. "They expect me to be out in the backyard playing with them, taking them to the park. "They can beat on me," he said with a chuckle. With his Proclaim DRG stimulator, Newman can be the father he wants to be. For all the intensity of his pain, the idea that his children would only see him that way may have weighed the heaviest. His kids - both under 12 - have never known their dad without his CRPS. When we caught up Newman, he was about to hit the road for a Phish concert with his 6-year-old. With your feet, unless you learn to walk on your hands, you've got to use your feet all the time."Īnd enjoyable. With your hands, you can kind of limit what you're doing. It got to be way too much for just the upper stim to handle," Newman said. That was until an operation on his knee opened his lower body to the beast. The pain from his upper body injury - as only a hockey player would describe it - was better controlled. Very lonely and painful existence."Ī reprieve came with his first Abbott spinal cord stimulator. I was spending a lot of time on a couch, not being able to enjoy anything. "I had a very dulled out sense of who I was. "When CRPS was at its worst, my life wasn't a life," Newman said. He was "still trying to function a little bit, still not trying to ignore life," but CRPS's gravity pulled every piece of his life to its will. Newman said he tried "everything under the sun" to battle his CRPS. After about 30 seconds, I fell to the ground in horrific pain. "They wanted me to move my hand back and forth. "I'll never forget: I was in physical therapy," Newman said. "Between 20-ish, I'd gone from never experiencing anything like that" to being unable to experience anything else. Surgery removed muscles in his right chest area and under his armpit. He was diagnosed with thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS). "My body was a wreck."Ībout six months after his fall, he felt numbness, tingling and pain in his right arm. He slipped on a child's toy that had been left behind. One fateful day, while servicing a client's IT network, he was carrying a load down a flight of stairs. Following graduate school at Syracuse and a decade as a therapist helping others with their mental and emotional pain, Newman had made a career switch to information technology.
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