chasing a lifetime dream

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Quote from: Sunshine on August 14, 2020, 03:02:14 PMSo I just asked the doctor's representative Murat who took that picture about the matter and he says I look 1m76 because he took the picture in fisheye mode on iPhone🤣

Why would he want to distort the picture of your before height with a fisheye lens making you appear taller? Did he take another picture with no filter? I believe you would want it to be able to compare the before and after heights appropriately.
Btw, how’s everything doing so far?

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@Skyisthelimit,
He took a couple pics in a row and they're all the same in fisheye lens. He just likes that fisheye mode when taking pics from his phone or mine! Well I guess I'll have to retake pics with the same Doctor Buldu after distraction ends to compare to the before surgery. Otherwise so far I'm on my 4th day of distraction and it's been up and down. Before distraction I walked pretty decently without too much pain at lift off of the feet. Then I started distraction and stood up a little longer that day and my walking went down for the next 2 days! The pain shoot up every time I lift off the foot. So now I avoid standing up too much and only walks to the bathroom and back to my bed. My walking is now less painful as long as I don't walk more than necessary, ie. only to the bathroom lol. The physiotherapist comes every day to make me work out my IT Band, quads, bending the knees, lifting the legs etc...
Here are some updates to my diary from August 8th.

August 10th
Discharge from hospital 5 days post-surgery.


Bye Bye 👋 Medicana hospital! All the staff and nurses were so sweet, I will miss them a lot, especially the nurses lol


Back to the TZL Suites for 10 days!

 
Breakfast included lol


1st Physiotherapy session with a very nice and chatty girl lol. Bending the knees, lifting the legs, opening the legs is painful like hell!

August 12th
Distraction starts 7 days after surgery!

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Hey bro sunshine....wht are your pre body stats like inseam,wing span....and wht final height goal are you looking upto.

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Quote from: Alamin on August 15, 2020, 08:20:10 PMHey bro sunshine....wht are your pre body stats like inseam,wing span....and wht final height goal are you looking upto.

Yes, I also am interested in these measurements. May we know, Sunshine?

Good Luck

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Hye Sunshine

how much did your surgery cost?

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Yea good choice
Hmm you flying back to your own country will you be doing physio in your home country?
X rays? What if one leg is longer than other during lengthening phase?
I'd stay in turkey for lengthening phase personally
And can your nail reverse backwards if over lengthen?

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Quote from: Stealth on August 15, 2020, 11:34:58 PMYea good choice
Hmm you flying back to your own country will you be doing physio in your home country?
X rays? What if one leg is longer than other during lengthening phase?
I'd stay in turkey for lengthening phase personally
And can your nail reverse backwards if over lengthen?

Yes precice nail can go backwards.

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@Alamin,
It's crazy we didn't think about measuring my stats pre-surgery during my consultation with Buldu on August 3rd! He was just landing back from his vacations that day and and our meeting was even delayed to a very late hour into the night! When I finally met him we discussed about the surgery and I asked him various questions but completely forgot to ask him to measure my sitting height inseam wingspan!! We just finished the meeting with that customary picture of me him and the measurement chart.
Otherwise I just know for a fact that my torso is longer than my legs and my wingspan is longer than my height. My goal is at least 180cm! That height is a dream I thought was unattainable and would never come true before I die! It's happening right now after 30 years of waiting and I'm not there yet cuz I can see now it's not gonna be easy to reach that mark. The surgery does not warrant you will automatically reach your goal! I don't know how my body will react to lengthening, the PT work is crucial in this journey. It all depends on my PT work and my body's ability to handle the distraction and to generate new bone in the gap. It's gonna be a long and painful journey cuz I'm not that young anymore and although my fitness is my asset, Doctor Buldu told me some people were physically strong before surgery but not that good at bone formation post-surgery while other younger patients were better at generating new bones! Each body is just unique and different at handling lengthening.

@a
Thanks, I'll try get my sitting height and wingspan measured and will post them here.

@taller2023
€35000

@Stealth
Yeah I plan to fly back home and continue lengthening there. They allow me to bring the ERC remote with me! I also plan to do PT myself at home as I now know the exercices from my physiotherapist. If it gets too hard then I'll hire a physiotherapist. I'll have to send my Doctor X-Rays every 2 weeks for follow up.
@ghkid2019 is absolutely right, the advantage of Precice and Stryde over other nails is that they are reversible! They can go both ways, they can distract but also reverse backwards so we can always correct leg length discrepancies.

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Quote from: Sunshine on August 13, 2020, 08:59:26 PMAugust 6

My new life starts today!

Many congratulations Sunshine!!

Whenever things get tough, just remember to keep your eyes on the prize... Your dedication to fitness is impressive and that same dedication will serve you well as you lengthen to your goal height and during consolidation...

I look forward to keeping up with your great diary... Stay strong, you got this!!

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Hey Sunshine

I saw your pics and I am following your diary . Im 172.5 cm and I would like to do LON method with Dr Buldu hopefully to reach 1,80 cm
I have a good feeling about Dr Buldu keep us updated about your recovery !

Cheers Frederico