Hi all, I am an Asian Canadian. My height started to bother me since my later twenties. And a few years ago, I thought that I've managed to get over with this problem mentally. But I was wrong... unfortunately I read a news about a success story of leg lengthening. And that is the begining of my story.
The first time I visited this forum was last September and since then I've become obessed with leg lengthening. I spent hours and hours reading other patients' experience and checking different doctors' information on this forum and other websites. As you know, I read news about people really got handicapped after leg lengthening and I was scared and hesitated. But then I read the experience of shyshy and yellowspike, who had their surgery operated by Dr. Guichet and I finally decided to at least pay a visit to Dr. Guichet.
Dream_catcher: Dr. Guichet internal femur - summer 2016
Unfortunately I was quite busy with my work for the fall of 2015 and I could only arrange to see Dr.Guichet in February 2016. That was indeed a long wait for me. How I wished that I could get all this leg lengthening process done as soon as possible!
So at last I had my first consultation with Dr. Guichet at Milan. He was nice and knowledgeable, just like his other patients said. He answered all my questions and cleared my doubts. However, he asked one requirement from me, increasing my leg strength by 30%. Luckily he agreed to let me do the training at my home, but must with a qualified personal trainer.
After more than three months of hard working with a good personal trainer, I arranged my second visit with Dr. Guichet and prebooked my surgery in June. While I was at home, I contacted Dr. Guichet several times via email and he always responded by himself. Most times he responded my email within 3 days, unless he was busy doing surgeries.
I'm 165cm tall and hope to gain 7cm in a bit over two months. As my age is towards the high end of the patients that Dr. Guichet had, I guess he is a bit conservative on how much I can gain. He said he will see how my body reacts during the lengthening process, which will start on June 20. Yes, next Monday!
Last week I met the group of Dr. Guichet 's patients and I had the chance to talk a bit with Mr.D, who is also from Canada, and Mr.T, who is from Australia and had his surgery two months ago. They are all cool guys. Mr. D likeed to making jokes when he and I were talking with Francisca, our personal trainer. He is so relaxed and he is so lucky to have all his family staying here with him. Mr. T was so calm when he was talking about his pain caused by one of his nails touching a nerve. Wow, I can't imagine how hurtful that feels.
As for me, I'm in Milan all by myself because my wife needs to work in Canada. But I used to travel around from time to time by myself, mostly for my work, and I studied a little bit of Italian just before I came to Milan. So hopefully I can manage my life decently after the lengthening starts.
I was very busy this past week especially yesterday and today. There were so many shoppings to do. I bought an exercise bike, which Dr. Guichet said is necessary to use each time before clicking. A few other patients who came earlier managed to have the bike delivered by the store. But it takes a week to ship it so I picked it up directly from the store. I also bought a foldable walker and a pair of crutches, which I'll start to use soon 
Not to mention there is a prescribed list of all kinds of medicine to buy.
Last but not least, I bought a lot of sporting shirts and socks, enough amount for at leadt two weeks without the need for washing, which I'd like to avoid in the toughest beginning of the lengthening. And I'm still working on the list of food that can supply my wellbeing and growth for two weeks and I need to buy all the food tomorrow. What a load of work!
Today I took a photo of myself to record my flexibility before the surgery. I think that my flexibility is decent, except my hamstrings still feel tight. I'll concentrate on stretching them in these last two days before my surgery 
One day before my surgery and two days after Mr. D's surgery. His surgery went well and he was so kind to send me his best wishes and some important tips, while he was still at the hospital! Based on his tips, I rushed to buy a few more shorts, t-shirts and socks. And I bought the last batch of food for my first two weeks of lengthening. What else? I also did my last strength training before surgery at the gym. Are all these preparations enough? I hope so, unless some unexpected situation occurs, and I believe that I've done as much as I could 
Thank you, Alu 
Axelf: I never attempted to see how long I can hold that position, but I can hold it easily for at least one minute.
I'm in my hospital room now... before my surgery, which will be the very first surgery in my life. A strong fear filled my body after a nurse injected an injector/extractor into my vein. At that moment, I suddenly realized that I'm a patient who is indeed going to undertake a heavy surgery! Wow, I never had that fear before...but I managed to get rid of the fear after a minute 
I decided to start all this, so I must commit to finish this.
I came to the hospital at 11am, but Dr. Guichet had another surgery in the morning, so I don't know how long I need to wait. Anyway I first arranged my stuff like medicines, water bottle, phone, and tablet at my room so that I could easily access them after the surgery. Then to kill the time, I turned on the TV. There are just a few channels, of course all in Italian. But one channel is showing American detective drama series, one after another, which I think was shot in the 80s. Well, I can't understand most of the talk of the characters , as the program is translated into Italian, but that doesn't prevent me to understand the main plot
Thank you too, tbike200.
Thank all you guys for the best wishes 
My surgery was finished one and half an hour ago and I just managed to finish my first and only meal for the last 24hours I think the surgery lasted around 6 hours because I remembered being taken to the operation room about 4pm. Yeah, I still remember things
The first half an hour right after the doctors woke me up was serously insane. My whole body even my teeth were so so shaky and I had no control over it. The nurse told me that's because of the pressure (of the instrumented nails?) And I was literally out of mind: weird thoughts were re-occurring in my mind, I don't even know if I'm still me and I felt like a robot who was being programs as my thoughts definitely weren't coming from my consciousness! I guess that's the after-effect of anethesia 
I felt most pain in my right leg, which I guess was at the exact location where the nail was inserted. I couldn't look at it as it was coverred by a band. And both my legs felt very stuffy...Yes, stuffy with the nails and perhaps also swollen, which I'll left to check tomorrow morning.
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