Your legs look good KiloKhan.. scars will heal over time, and most of them will not be so visible in a month or so. Did you try walking after the frame removal? How was that experience?
Quote from: microman on July 04, 2015, 10:23:32 AMif I saw those scars on a person the only thing I could think of is maybe someone shot you at close range with a bb gun or something.
but yeah explaining the scars would be far too hard to do, especially since they exist only on your lower leg and are practically symmetrical to each other, which indicates it wont be an accident or something.
I think if you can get rid of the bottom scars, it would look 10x more normal, so maybe you just have to get rid of half of them.
There's a cosmetic center that does scar removal nearby. I might drop in just to see what their prices are, but I'll wait and see how well these hide after healing for a while.
Quote from: Phoenix on July 04, 2015, 08:52:13 PMYour legs look good KiloKhan.. scars will heal over time, and most of them will not be so visible in a month or so. Did you try walking after the frame removal? How was that experience?
Thanks. I haven't tried walking unaided because my ortho told me to take it easy and put a little more weight on my left leg for now until later x-rays show some more healing in the right leg. But walking without the frames certainly feels much better and my legs feel very light. I received my frames back after they were disinfected and they're really heavy. Can't believe I was walking with those this whole time.
Quote from: KiloKAHN on July 05, 2015, 11:06:55 AMThere's a cosmetic center that does scar removal nearby. I might drop in just to see what their prices are, but I'll wait and see how well these hide after healing for a while.
Thanks. I haven't tried walking unaided because my ortho told me to take it easy and put a little more weight on my left leg for now until later x-rays show some more healing in the right leg. But walking without the frames certainly feels much better and my legs feel very light. I received my frames back after they were disinfected and they're really heavy. Can't believe I was walking with those this whole time.
I will definitely opt for scar removal later, at least for that nasty fibula scar. Though other scars are hardly visible under the hair on my leg, the scar made for fibula is long, and easily recognizable. I love wearing shorts, and I do not want to be cautious about scars all my life. But some say laser scar removal also removes the hair around the scar, in that case we are drawing attention to the scar, highly counter productive. I hope it is not true. 
Just waiting for the day when my frames will be off my legs. I spoke to one of the current patients of Dr.Dhawan who is in consolidation phase right now. She said my frames will become more heavy once they replace the struts with rods, after lengthening. Not sure how heavy they would be, my frame weight is comfortable right now, may be got used to them, but any more added weight will make them heavier for my legs.
Quote from: Uppland on July 11, 2015, 09:45:35 AMYour tibiae don't look very long at all Kilo. You wanna post a pick with your whole leg in it so we can see the femur/tibia difference?
I'm not allowed to stand without the walking braces yet, so it'll be hard to see the difference between tibs and femurs clearly. Here's one of my legs while lying down though. That work? 
Mate your tibiae don't look too long at all, hard to say for sure but I think your biomechanics might be safe.
wow your tibias must have been tiny before hand.
The camera angle is making your femur look very long, and the tibia very short. That pic will not help in measuring your Tibia-Femur ratio. Instead, if you have a standing X-Ray, taken after lengthening, that should help. Alternately, a similar picture, if taken by some one else with camera directly above your knees, might give better results.
I'm going to need to find someone willing to take a pic of me in my underwear. Went to the ortho today and saw his assistant (ortho that I've been seeing now works at another clinic) to get my granulation tissue burned off and I was told that they don't do standing x-rays because the radiation is dangerous to your reproductive system. Have to ask my regular ortho when I see him in four weeks and request it once again. If they won't do it then I may have to find some other place where they won't object to it.
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