Quote from: Alu on October 23, 2015, 12:42:55 AMWhere exactly are these scares located at? Do you think if you don't ever get laser removal you can easily hide it? Also would you even consider laser removal lol?
Anyways good to hear from you. I must ask how's your set up in your home as you are going through with consolidation?
They're located along the outside of your legs, almost in a straight line if you connect the dots. There's an IT band scar which is about 2.5 inches long and looks like someone cut you. That one is near the knee. Next up are two scars for the lower screws. They look like the size of your pinky's fingernail. Next up the leg is one dot where they chiseled and broke my femur. This one is small like the screw scars. Next up are two more scars where the top screws are. This is located around where your crotch starts. And then finally at the top of where your femur bone ends is a big scar that's about an inch long and 1/3 inch thick.
At the rate that the scars are healing, I'm pretty sure that these scars will go away eventually. And even if they don't, I'm going to end up with the same scars when I remove the rod. The only scars that will not reappear when removing the rods are the IT band ones and the ones used for breaking the femur. Luckily, those are the ones that are fading the fastest.
I might consider laser removal if the scars don't go away after rod removal. But most likely, I don't care, because I normally wear shorts or jeans that will cover the scars. The dot that Dr. Paley said will likely never go away will just look like a birthmark. The other scars will probably fade into flesh color.
My house is just set up like my hotel room. I put everything near my bed for easy access. I only have to get up to shower and poop and cook food. I can pretty much do everything on my own, except take out the trash and buy groceries. I have friends to help me out with that.
Sorry, no pics for now. I can describe it for you guys, though.
My proportions look fine. I asked my friends to look and they said that I looked fine. I actually like the way my thighs look now, because back then, I used to think that my thighs were pretty short. Especially when I sat down and looked down on my thighs, they looked stubby. Now they look like normal length. The thing is, if you wear your clothes a certain way, people can't really tell what your proportions are. Especially if you wear all black like a suit. Or even if you wear gym shorts, you can adjust how high up or down your gym shorts are on your body and change the visual proportions of our legs accordingly. When I took a picture of myself, I actually look pretty tall now, because of the illusion having longer legs.
I no longer think I'm short anymore, and can't wait to be able to walk again and put this whole ordeal behind me. It's only been slightly less than a month of consolidation, and it already feels like eternity. Time seems to slow down when you're stuck at home and can't really go out to do things. I've been swimming in my pool to pass time. That's the only thing that seems to help me pass time faster. It's also where most of my exercise comes from.
