One leg at a time?

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Hi everyone,

I've been considering this procedure for years and the deterrent has been the lengthy recover phase/immobility. To my mind, it would seemingly make more sense to lengthen one leg at a time. Barring an apocalypse and ending up with one leg longer than the other, I'm not seeing the disadvantages other than taking twice as long to reach your height.

The advantages I'm seeing are:
Crutches from day 1? (as opposed to wheelchair)
Much more mobile/functional life
Body only needs to heal/grow one leg

What am I missing? I realize expenditures would increase as you'd have twice as many trips, more hospital expenses...

I just truly hate the thought of being in a wheelchair for months. I feel like I would lose considerable amount of cardiovascular strength...

Any thoughts?

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The issue that you mentioned - once you do one leg the other leg 'has' to be elongated by that much, oterhwise you will be left with a discrepancy. If you get bad complications early on in the 2nd leg what would you do?

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I think it is a good and wise option.
I always thought doing LL one leg for time:
+50% mobility
+50% safety
-50% stress to body
+50% better healing(due to two upper reasons)
-50% pain
-50% risk of fat embolism
The only drawbacks are time and price(it should be slightly expensive but no sane doctor would charge double,max +5%)
but I think the advantages are way higher than contros.
Having a healthy leg in this kind of process is priceless,both psychological and physically speaking.