Bilateral Tibia Lengthening and Varus correction with TSF

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Hi fujitora

Can you post your xrays from the side view?

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Here are the X-Rays -

• X-Ray Left Leg Feb 20th
• X-Ray Right Leg Feb 20th

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March 17th Update - Suffered bad skin infection for the past 15 days.

Hi All -

Just want to update you what has happened over the last few weeks. Few days after my update on Feb 20th, I got a severe skin infection. I'll copy paste the update I posted on Unicorn's diary, in case you haven't read it. 

I got bad skin infection/itch near one of the pin site. I found out the next day that I got it from one of the servant here who cleans up my room. He had a bad infection on his toes, and he cleaned my room with the same dirty hands he uses to scratch his itch on his toes. That's gross and he didn't bother telling me until it's too late.That's unacceptable, and I forbid him from entering my room from that day. The infection was spreading badly, so I went to a near by dermatologist. I spent 15 mins and explained my whole story. After listening to everything, he outright refused to treat me. He said he hasn't dealt with an infection involving external frames, and I should seek medication from no one else but my orthopedist. Then I had to go to another orthopedist, who said it's a superficial skin infection (which means its just peripheral infection over the skin and not a deep infection, which could potentially lead to bone infection) and only a dermatologist is the right person to treat it. Then I had to find another dermatologist with good ratings on the internet, as the first one refused to treat me. I took an Uber cab to get there. After reaching the destination,  I found out that the address posted on google was obsolete. I was just left there alone with dirty and crowd roads. I couldn't ask the same cab to continue the journey because he got another ride. Then the unexpected happened. I lost mobile network coverage in that area!!! I had to walk past couple of lanes on these metal frames while everyone on the road are watching me, had to restart my phone twice, and then the signal was back. Then I finally got the signal back and booked a cab again to go the dermatologist.  I got there, waited for 30 mins as there were other patients waiting in the queue, and then I got to meet her(dermatologist) and spent time explaining the whole thing again and she prescribed some medication and antibiotics for 5 days. I took the medicines for 5 days but was no improvement and I had to go back to her after 5 days and she gave me another ointment. I took them for 5 days and now the infection has spread to all the other pin sites. Good thing is that this new ointment healed the infection that I originally had. So at least I now have hope from that it works, and I have to apply that to all the pin sites. I'm also getting blood tests and skin culture tests performed tomorrow, just to be sure. Remember I was all alone and had to go everywhere on foot with these big metal around your legs, you become an eye magnet.

Luckily, the infection has receded over the last week. I'm so glad that things didn't become worse. It sucks to go through this when you're almost at the end of your LL journey. Here is a picture of the infection.

Here are some technical details for LL nerds (no offence):
Root cause identified by dermatologist: Bacterial Infection.
Prescribed medication:

• Supirocin Ointment for 5 days. It didn't work.
• Momate F Cream ointment was prescribed later, when Supirocin rendered ineffective. After applying that for 5 days, things started to get better
• Clavan 625. This is an antibiotic. Prescribed for 5 days, twice a day. Then extended for 5 more days
• Xyzal. This is for anti-infection, and minimize itching sensation around infected areas. Had to take this pill once a day, for 10 days, before going to bed
• I also had blood test and skin culture tests performed, just to be cautious.

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Scars look rly decent

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Quote from: YourSpaceBoyfriend on March 17, 2017, 05:25:02 PMScars look rly decent

Yeah, I feel the same too.  I found in general that the whiter your skin is, the less prominent scars are.

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Quote from: fujitora on March 17, 2017, 05:27:35 PMYeah, I feel the same too.  I found in general that the whiter your skin is, the less prominent scars are.

My scars would not be too bad then since my legs are white.

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Quote from: bander72 on March 17, 2017, 05:30:52 PMMy scars would not be too bad then since my legs are white.

Yep. Good for you.

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I'm glad you got this infection under control.
I had necrosis around one of my pins on my right leg. I didn't mention it in my diary, maybe I should.
Anyway... I know how stressful it is to sit there "in spe" that something might finally cure it.

Good luck with the rest of your journey 

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Quote from: Chris on March 17, 2017, 09:40:17 PMI'm glad you got this infection under control.
I had necrosis around one of my pins on my right leg. I didn't mention it in my diary, maybe I should.
Anyway... I know how stressful it is to sit there "in spe" that something might finally cure it.

Good luck with the rest of your journey 

 I think you should chris. People need to know all risks possible. And if you had necrosis, it means it is also one of them

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Quote from: Chris on March 17, 2017, 09:40:17 PMI'm glad you got this infection under control.
I had necrosis around one of my pins on my right leg. I didn't mention it in my diary, maybe I should.
Anyway... I know how stressful it is to sit there "in spe" that something might finally cure it.

Good luck with the rest of your journey 

Thanks Chris.