WHat is the total cost of the procedure including accommodations, therapy, travel, etc ? Was an anticoagulant prescribed to mitigate risk of blood clots?
just read blood thinners prescribed happy to hear
Quote from: Jason125 on March 19, 2021, 03:21:10 AMKeep going on! Hope you recover soon! If you are alright with it maybe post a walking video progression? Your diary really motivates me!
As soon as I am able to walk I will post the video, Just waiting on the frame removal now as it really restricts my movements.
Hi Jamesy,
I sent you an inbox, hope you see it.
Thanks
How is your mobility my friend
MY ROM is utter crap right now, just waiting for the fixator removal to get back into shape again
Range Of Movement and Recovery Of Strength is crucial my friend
Both will return without a doubt I remove my fixators and dedicate most of my time to training. There were many of us here with horrible ROM even worse than me and now they are at 100 degrees+ after 2 months of removal. I was one of the unfortunate ones with bad ROM even at the beginning before i lengthened straight after Externals. One of the many reason it is more ideal to do internals if you have the money or external tibias.
When it comes to range of motion and patients in external (LON) femurs I have observed that it is somewhere around 50/50, you have some patients who have amazing ROM during the entire phase bu then you have some like myself with really poor ROM. There is also many who have great knee bending abilities but struggle with duck as£.
One thing is for sure that with externals the recovery is a bit longer for those with poor bending because it takes longer for them to regain the ROM, either way I would only do stryde internals or tibia externals if I were given another chance. Precise also seems great with the comfort and all but the fact that it is not weight bearing makes it less appealing to me.
I might as well give my status update as I write my response. Everything seems to be going well. The knee straightening issue that I had is slowly resolving and getting better by the week, the bending is still very poor as I mentioned previously and I have no pains at all. I stopped lengthening more than a week at this point and it makes a world of a difference. My soft tissues no longer feel like they are about to explode out of my skin. There is the occasional nerve pain once every two days at most and it lasts no longer than a split second. Surgery for the removal is literally tomorrow and I am very nervous and excited at the same time, I had needles and the fact that I have to go to the hospital and get a ton of em done pre op is very annoying to me, the butterflies are already happening in my stomach.
In a few hours I am going to get a covid CPR test done (home test service) just to have that checked before being admitted to the hospital and then I will start fasting after six in the evening getting ready for my operation. My operation is in the morning and will hopefully be in a state to update my diary after waking up. As many will agree with me the hospital is arguably one of the most depressing places on earth to be in so forgive me if I do not immediately update my diary and possibly take longer than a week to respond.
Best of luck on your frame removal surgery!
Good luck with the surgery! Btw, love the moniker. (No one is a bigger bad@ss than Michael Corleone)
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