Here is an April xray.
Look carefully at both the tibia and fibula.
Both are curved backwards.
This is what I mean by "curved", the bone is healing "curved" backwards.
You see how the alignment is off?
The nail he used isnt the same as other LON patients from what I have seen from their x rays.
So not sure why he didn't prepare properly beforehand. He knew I was coming, I even paid to stay there an extra week before the final surgery to "make sure everything will go 100% fine", actually the plan was to fly in, do surgery, fly out. But I wanted it to be straight and I made it clear several several times even right before I was put to sleep before the final surgery, I said "please dr lee make sure it is straight up and down please"
And this is the outcome. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm no doctor, but if he made it straight it would probably require reaming extremely and dangerously close to the periosteum on the top. Idk. I think your only option now is let it full heal in 2-3 years, then do an outpatient correction surgery with simple plating than u will prolly recover in a month. Prolly covered by insurance maybe if you can prove arthritis and or just scream pain and suffer
I'm sry this happen to you. It sad but hopefully I think you will overcome it eventually. And I will be waiting for the day you do 8cm Femurs to get from 165 to 173. That day even if take 5 years from now, will cure ur neurosis. Sorry for bringing it up again. I just always get depression when I see hard worker and suffering person like you who got fücked by surgeons then have to do correction and still maintain the short feeling complex
Sry bro
All good man. Thanks for the advice. I think if he had used a different nail, one in the same shape as the stryde nail, he could have made it straight. Other LON patients who had an IM nail implanted, the nail was the same shape as stryde. Also he didn't have to ream (if he did it would have been very very very minimal), I had stryde in that leg already so he just needed to insert.
Even this patient who went to Vietnam out of all places who did LON there, when he took off EF and moved to im nail (I think it was a finnish? brand nail) he had one that had the same shape as the stryde nail.
So that is the part that baffles me, how come Lee didn't plan ahead, I was there an extra week? Instead he used whatever he had on hand.. in that box.. box of nails.. I'm also a paying customer who paid quite a lot at his clinic. I know he could have done it. He has done LON hundreds of times as he told me himself. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ maybe he has too many patients, and 1 patient ain't that big a deal, especially one patient that wasn't so sure about giving them marketing material in the form of a youtube interview.
But anyways, thanks, ghkid. Tbh in Asia 165 isn't horrible, but I know when I'm back in LA it'll be like argggg haha. Gotta do that extra 5 in the femurs when I can, I'm fine with 170. Don't want t-rex arms now.
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