It's Sunday night Australian Eastern Standard time. Tuesday morning about 11am I depart and arrive Beijing airport at 1:05am on Wednesday.
I've just measured myself standing as 178.3 My feet were flat on the ground but my heels were 6-8cm out from the base of the wall
Clearly this is more than 10cm extension from my start of 167 which boggles my mind because I stuck to what I've been told many times is .667mm daily, and I can't see how there's been enough days since December 4 to get up that high. 130 days * .667 = less than 9cm; not 11.5 or so 
Clearly the doc will direct me to cease lengthening once I've had my xray on Wednesday. Then there will 20 days of passive consolidation until the operation to remove these leg frames. After that will be 20 days recommended (14 days minimum) of postoperative observation of the limb function. Maybe early June or very end of May is when I can return home for the task of final recuperation: consolidation without the frames over several months.
I do wonder if any leg length discrepancy will be found that requires finetuning. I don't sense it.
Somehow I neglected to specify that my FEET were the body part experiencing bad circulation symptoms. Well that's alleviated at least some. They still go a deeper colour, with mottled appearance, than the rest of my leg when I stand. I take slow steps in the walking frame.
Two foreign patients remain in Beijing. The first has stopped his lengthening at 6.5cm to go back to college in Canada and would be flying homewards in just two weeks time. The other, an American who started at 5'3 during January, must be nearing to his goal of 9cm. Him being left all alone during June may be a possibility due to the lack of urgency to recruit other foreign patients. Their hands are full as it is with the number of local patients they are dealing with from the many regions of China that have a genuine need for skeletal correction and extension.
There is a very good promotional video which shows what they have done to alleviate various patients (child and adult) of their ambulatory problems. I've seen it playing on a wallmounted plasma screen but it's not on the internet - which would be a good idea. The extra $ foreign elective patients pay really isn't for the financial benefit of the directors and senior medics of that place: it funds the expansion of the accommodation and treatment facilities which serve genuinely disabled people and their supporting family members who may come from distant provinces. See, I had one of the rooms with a complete view of the internal car park and I didn't count any BMWs.
They really need a pet cat or feral cat or pet something there because it's beneficial to those who may stay and work there, and for the animal itself. I've been told they used to years before but they don't now. There were cats who would come inside and pace down the corridors and enter peoples' rooms. Every hospital and nursing home anywhere should have at least one pet animal.
