Cooper Precise Femur Journey with Dr. Birkholtz (Incomplete)

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Hiya,

Congratulations on the decision guys. Thanks for your trust.
We need to set a couple of ground rules. I think two golden rules should apply:
1) You need to be absolutely honest about the experience. Good or bad.
2) This is my last post in your personal diary for fear of creating bias. You should feel free to post whatever you want, without fear that this might somehow compromise your care.
Good luck and I am looking forward to meeting you and getting the adventure underway.

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Quote from: Franz on March 21, 2014, 06:21:17 PMHiya,

Congratulations on the decision guys. Thanks for your trust.
We need to set a couple of ground rules. I think two golden rules should apply:
1) You need to be absolutely honest about the experience. Good or bad.
2) This is my last post in your personal diary for fear of creating bias. You should feel free to post whatever you want, without fear that this might somehow compromise your care.
Good luck and I am looking forward to meeting you and getting the adventure underway.


Thank you dr. Franz. I would not mind you dropping by. I will try to be unbiased and provide the LL coomunity a real life experience. Honesty is my best policy, an old adage but had worked great deal in my career and in business.  Looking forward to WORKING with you on this project !

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Quote from: Gichelu on March 21, 2014, 06:03:11 PMHope it goes well and thanks for being the first Birkholtz patient. But bro why are you also posting this on old forum ? I know it's your diary and you can do what you want but Sysop was talking smack about this forum and saying Birkholtz isn't even a real doctor so writing a Birkholtz diary on old forum  isn't the best thing. Its not personal against you or anything but I think it would be best if Birkholtz diaries are exclusive to this site for a little while since this place found him and supported him whereas the other one just badmouthed him and wouldn't even accept Dr Franz as a member.
Hey Gichelu,
I understand your concern. I thought about that right before posting, questioned myself should even bother posting anything in old forum . I was member of that forum for two years. Learned a great deal about patient real life experience, LL techniques and doctors et cetera. I could really graduate with distinction if there was a LL test

I believe in my heart I owe to the LL community. Remember there are six thousands members in old forum  possibly looking for good doctor. May be my experience will help them in some way and above all they will come to know this great doctor.

I do feel home on this forum and promise this will be my primary. Hope this make sense.

THANKS LL Forum for bringing this doctor to the forum. I would not know damn thing had I not checked out this forum. For that I am deeply grateful.

Cheers!!

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Quote from: Cooper on March 21, 2014, 06:56:27 PMHey Gichelu,
I understand your concern. I thought about that right before posting, questioned myself should even bother posting anything in old forum . I was member of that forum for two years. Learned a great deal about patient real life experience, LL techniques and doctors et cetera. I could really graduate with distinction if there was a LL test

I believe in my heart I owe to the LL community. Remember there are six thousands members in old forum  possibly looking for good doctor. May be my experience will help them in some way and above all they will come to know this great doctor.

I do feel home on this forum and promise this will be my primary. Hope this make sense.

THANKS LL Forum for bringing this doctor to the forum. I would not know damn thing had I not checked out this forum. For that I am deeply grateful.

Cheers!!

I think that's a wise attitude. It's more important to provide information than being involved in this conflict of the two forums.
Good luck with your journey! 

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Quote from: Hanna84 on March 21, 2014, 07:25:54 PMI think that's a wise attitude. It's more important to provide information than being involved in this conflict of the two forums.
Good luck with your journey! 

Thank you Hanna. I admired your 9cm. You are a brave soul.

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Thank you. 
What is your goal?

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I am shooting for 6.5cm on femur and 5cm in tibia. In total 11.5.

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Cooper congrats!!!  I'm so excited to see Dr. B finally get the recognition he deserves.  I think your diary is going to go tremendously well, and will convince a lot of others to go to him too (maybe even me for when I do my tibiae!)

Keep in mind, the internet in SA isn't the best (actually ranked 130th in the world) so you should try investing in a 3G dongle, which allows for pay-as-you-go data.  You should also contact the guesthouse you're staying at to figure out what their connection speeds are and if there's any chance of you increasing them (if it's at a measly 1 mb/s).

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Quote from: BilateralDamage on March 22, 2014, 12:58:42 AMCooper congrats!!!  I'm so excited to see Dr. B finally get the recognition he deserves.  I think your diary is going to go tremendously well, and will convince a lot of others to go to him too (maybe even me for when I do my tibiae!)

Keep in mind, the internet in SA isn't the best (actually ranked 130th in the world) so you should try investing in a 3G dongle, which allows for pay-as-you-go data.  You should also contact the guesthouse you're staying at to figure out what their connection speeds are and if there's any chance of you increasing them (if it's at a measly 1 mb/s).

Hey BD,
Thanks man. I am worried about the Internet. I am not planning to work much for first two weeks. I will check with Piña if I can get wifi hot spot with faster Internet and what speed guest house carries. It says four star and I am believing that comes with good connection.

I think he is a great option with world class facility and modern IM nail. He wrote me email today saying I made a good decision. That was really comforting. Since I am the first bilateral precise patient there is always that sense of anxiety. Over all I am pretty confident and time will tell.

I will be posting and loading lots of pictures. Hope the Internet will handle that much bottleneck. I will be checking with you as we are riding the journey around the same time. The LL community can observe two Precise patient with two completely different doctors.

How you feeling now about your upcoming surgery?

Best

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Good luck Cooper!