Hey! Have a couple of questions
-How are the pain levels are this time? Still taking any pain meds?
-How are you getting around in terms of mobility at the moment?
Quote from: ctw on July 03, 2017, 06:58:06 AMHey! Have a couple of questions
-How are the pain levels are this time? Still taking any pain meds?
-How are you getting around in terms of mobility at the moment?
Pain = 0. Just some tightness. I stopped taking pain meds after the 2nd week.
Getting around is fine, the walker's not difficult at all and transferring to and from the wheelchair gets really easy once the initial pain from surgery is lowered.
Hi, thank you for your diary. Do you know if Dr.M accepts care credit financing? I'm saving up but if I could partially fund using care credit, I can go through the process sooner than later.
Quote from: tinkerbell007 on July 05, 2017, 03:26:05 AMHi, thank you for your diary. Do you know if Dr.M accepts care credit financing? I'm saving up but if I could partially fund using care credit, I can go through the process sooner than later.
Yes, he does.
Day 66
I wanted to update this a couple of days earlier, but there was a delay in getting my X-Rays to Dr. M. Anyways, here we go..
Unfortunately my right leg did not look like it could handle the increased lengthening of 4 times day/1.32mm per day. My left leg, however, still looks strong as ever. I was advised to keep lengthening the left at 4 times a day while dropping the right to 3 times a day. This is kind of inconvenient for me, but I'd rather follow Dr. M's advice than get complications in either leg. It will be a little weird having my left leg longer than my right, but since I'm so close to being done already the difference will be minimal.
Here's some pics for you guys!
http://imgur.com/a/tBoHF
Right on top, Left on bottom
Keep in mind though, the bad news of my right leg does NOT mean I'm doing "bad." 3 times a day is absolutely normal, "bad" would mean I have to do less than that. My left leg is just doing really good, and to me it's bad news that my right leg isn't also doing really good. Now my legs will be a few days apart in the end when they are finished lengthening.
Besides this though, everything else has been fine... currently at 6cm, I noticed I got tighter around 5.5cm or so but nothing painful, just a feeling that made me want to stretch more to reduce the tightness.
Here's my dilemma though guys: I've really been considering not going the full 8cm. There's several reasons for this.
First off, I'm worried about how I will perform after 8cm. I've seen great successes like ShyShy and others who were able to run and jump after a large amount of lengthening, but for some reason none of these people have ever went to 8cm. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but all the great success I've seen were all 7.5cm max (as in ShyShy's case), but never passed that. I don't know if 8 is just a bad number or not, but for me not seeing any 8cm patients with that kind of success makes me very cautious.
Second, I'm a little scared about how much more I can take, especially in my right leg. I know I haven't really felt any pain and I'm doing great right now at 6cm, but it's only going to get harder from here.. do I really want to push myself to the point where it gets hard? I think it would be great for me to just stop when I get really uncomfortable (with that amount hopefully being 7.5/7.6cm) rather than getting all the way to 8cm and being super tight. I just feel like the former will help me heal a lot faster if I'm still relatively fine, while the latter will not only take longer to recover from but will also take longer just to feel better.
Lastly, and most importantly, I truly do want to start getting back to my life. I miss hanging out with my friends, family, and girlfriend. I miss going to the gym, I miss running outside and I miss being able to just go out in public like normal. I'm definitely not saying I'm at my limit and need to be back in public like right away next month or something, but the longer I lengthen the longer the recovery will take.. and that compounding time is really starting to take its toll on me. Is the 4mm difference between 7.6cm and 8cm even worth it anymore? I'm starting to think little things like my hair can easily make up for that difference. I really just want to stop lengthening already and start recovering.. once I can walk I can at least look like I'm normal, but in the walker everyone will clearly know something's wrong.
I'll definitely be thinking a lot about this over these last 3 weeks, and I'll make sure to listen to my body as the ultimate deciding factor. But I'd like to know what you guys think, please chime in as much as you can and let me know if stopping at 7.6cm rather than 8cm would be worth it. Thank you for reading!
Your upper body will shrink when you get older, so you will technically not stay 6 feet anyway. But you can stay solid 5'11 forever if you finish with this, and probably still look and be closer to 6 feet than 5'11.
Quote from: LLprime2 on July 16, 2017, 10:54:04 PMYour upper body will shrink when you get older, so you will technically not stay 6 feet anyway. But you can stay solid 5'11 forever if you finish with this, and probably still look and be closer to 6 feet than 5'11.
So what's your vote then? 7.6cm or 8cm?
Go for 8cm. Be the first one ever! Make history! I believe in you!
Quote from: Brb6ftTall on July 16, 2017, 11:41:13 PMSo what's your vote then? 7.6cm or 8cm?
7.6 cm, if you feel it becomes a strain on your body.
0.4 cm is nothing. Go for whatever is easier. Especially don't risk your health over 0.4 cm!
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