Dr. Monegal (Barcelona) - Two stage internal Femur - Fitbone

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I am happy that you seem to be doing well!
I will pay a visit to Mic next week or week after.

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In the guesthouse ask people and you will see the truth

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Quote from: helloworld on May 02, 2017, 08:50:35 PMI am happy that you seem to be doing well!
I will pay a visit to Mic next week or week after.
I guess I will see you tomorrow at lunch. :-)

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Good luck with your LL.
I did it at the age of 45. I am now 49, doing sports like crazy, everything fine so far.
All the best to you,
Cheers
OBG

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OBG, how much did you do? My theory is that 3inch is safe for 20's/30's but for 40's, maybe 2inches is safer.

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Quote from: Mdream on May 03, 2017, 09:44:12 PMOBG, how much did you do? My theory is that 3inch is safe for 20's/30's but for 40's, maybe 2inches is safer.

He did close to 6cm

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Hello WordQuote from: helloworld on May 03, 2017, 10:27:01 AMI guess I will see you tomorrow at lunch. :-)

It was a pleasure meeting you helloworld. It's nice to meet and chat with others that have gone through this procedure.

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Just a quick update.

I have been sleeping though the night with no problem at all; no pain when leg is stationary thus far. That's been a blessing since I like my sleep. So far, no pain to speak of when my leg is stationary.  Bending my knee, to the point where there is resistance, creates a little pain - perhaps a 2 of out 10.  Based on feedback from Dr. Monegal, I am expecting to feel pain at some point during the lengthening process.  He gave me an estimate of about 2 weeks into lengthening.  I'm hoping it is bearable and does not cause me to slow down on my lengthening schedule.

I stretch 4 times a day, once right before I lengthen.  I stretch one hour in the morning while in bed, twice in the afternoon while standing, and then once again before I call it a night.  After lengthening I like to nap or at least remain stationary for 30 minutes.  Nothing that I have been told to do, and perhaps not even recommended...any thoughts on that?  I'm trying to hit the exercise bike one a day for 30 - 60 minutes depending on my energy level.  I have not started PT yet, I'm planning on starting this coming week.

While lying in bed, I still have a very sharp pain in my knee on occasion when I sometimes twist my leg laterally while its fully extended.  The pain level is a 10/10; it feels like my knee cap has exploded.  I can't seem to reproduce the pain by intentionally twisting my leg so I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing that is causing the pain.  I'm hoping it's related to the swelling which I had plenty of -even Dr. Monegal confirmed that I had a lot of swelling.  It's a little bit concerning since the other LL patients of Dr. Monegals that are here at MIC, have not experienced this sensation.  I would be very interested to know if anyone out there has had this same type of pain.  I now bend my knee before moving the leg laterally and that seems to prevent me from ever hitting that painful "sweet spot".  I'll have to ask the Dr. about this next time I see him; if this is a long term pain, it's definitely going to put a damper on my kiting/surfing activities.

I have been lengthening now for 5 days; the first two days I lengthened .8mm per day and the last three days I'm doing 1mm per day.  After lengthening there is minor pain in my knee, maybe a 1 or 2; I expect that is normal. As mentioned previously, my leg is still swollen but it has definitely starting returning to its normal size; I am thankful for that; it's hard to tell just how much tension the lengthening is causing on your leg muscles are when your leg is swollen.

Since I have already scheduled my flight back to have the second procedure done on my remaining femur, I am planing to continue lengthen at 1mm a day (unless my body tell me differently).  That will give me time to lengthen as much as I feel comfortable doing before the next procedure.  I can always postpone my trip if more days of consolidation are required before surgery on the second leg.   I hoping that even if I just a a week or two of consolidation before the next surgery, that it will be enough time to be able to place more weight on the leg - another topic of discussion for Dr. Monegal.

That's it for now.  I'll certain provide an update soon!







 

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Quote from: Four Inch Fold on May 06, 2017, 04:38:15 PMHello Word
It was a pleasure meeting you helloworld. It's nice to meet and chat with others that have gone through this procedure.
It was great to meet you as well as all the others!
Glad you are sleeping well! Seems like you are doing very well!

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Hello everyone!

It's now day 19 since surgery update.  Dr. Monegal viewed a new set of xrays a couple of days ago and everything looked good.

I'm continuing to lengthen at 1.08 mm a day and i can feel the pressure in my knee from the lengthening, feels strange but I'm starting to see the results of lengthening.   As of today, I have lengthened 17.5mm ( that includes the 4mm that Dr. Monegal lengthened during surgery.  I was a little concerned that I was starting to feel muscle tension this early but I'm told this is normal.  I continue to stretch four times a day and ride an exercise bike for 50 minutes a day, at the moment it's requires more energy each day to get though my stretching and biking.  I'm not sure if it will continue to get more difficult each day but I suspect it will until I finish the lengthening; I have a long ways to go.

The pain in my knee that I was complaining about when I move my knee laterally seems to have gone away completely; very thankful for that.  I imagine it just took a bit of healing from the surgery to take care of it.

I do have moments of random, but mild, pain in my leg, mostly around the knee.  The pain level is not enough that I feel the need to take pain killers, however, I have them available should i need to resort to them.

I feel the need to vent a little about the Internet connection at the MIC.  It's pretty bad at certain times of day; in the evenings is seems to be the worst; I guess every one is streaming video at that time. Since I need to connect remotely to my company servers, keeping up with work has been challenging.  I did complain to the Director of the MIC and she was nice enough to send a tech here a few days later.  The tech told me that there is a line issue with the entire block; which would seem to make sense since I'm seeing 50%-60% packet loss at certain times of the day.  I think if they upgraded the measly 10MB connection to 60 or 100 MB that would help.  I'm not sure why they think 10MB is enough to share between all the residents staying here at any one time; forget about trying to connect to a SlingBox without getting completely annoyed. I'll need to find other accommodations for my next procedure or find some sort of affordable unlimited 4G LTE Internet option. I'll have to research that before my next visit.

Barcelona is a terrific city and the weather has been glorious.  I'm thankful to have a balcony, although there were no chairs or a table.  I pulled one of the living area chairs out to the balcony and was lightly reprimanded about doing that.  They brought me an wicker chair after that.  . That's it for now....back to work.