Yellowspike, it's my honour to have you here! Your successful experience played an important role when I made my decision. Yes, I just realized that 7cm is not easy to achieve the first day after my surgery, and I'll have to listen to my body and followc Dr. Guichet's advices.Thank you.
Takanori and ram2206, thank you too and I'll try my best to update my diary everyday.
I had a relatively easy start today, though I didn't really sleep but only rested last night. My pain was moderate and I had a good apitite...I finished all my breakfast 
Later, while I was still wondering what should I do for today, Francesca and Mattisa, a physiotherapist works for Dr. Guichet, came by to start my exercise, which was rather scary than painful for me to do. Mattisa asked me to lift my legs up from my bed, but it took me 5 minutes to lift each of my legs up for just a couple of cms. But both of them were very patient and understanding 
Then Mattisa and a nurse carefully helped me to stand up with my walker and move to a wheelchair, with which another nurse took me to do ultrasound and x-ray. Somehow I felt dizzy when sitting on the wheelchair. The ultrasound exam was easy as the specialist did it when I was sitting on the wheelchair, but the xray was a different story. The specialist asked me to stand up by myself and move to the exam bed. Both the specialist and nurse were women and weren't strong enough to assist me. So I asked the nurse to fetch my walker and put it in front of my wheelchair, But I still hesitated. With the two ladies staring at me and I staring at the walker for a couple of minutes, eventually I gave up. Better safe than sorry. I didn't want to have this difficult movement as my first independent standup ;p
Dream_catcher: Dr. Guichet internal femur - summer 2016
Yesterday was awful. Pain started to appear everywhere in my body: legs, buttocks, back. My legs were either stiffy or painful. One of the worst things is that I can't pee. Yes, I had to use the painful catheter for three times so far and I tried to drink as little fluid as I could to avoid that. Dr. Guichet told me it's normal to lose that ability to pee for a day or so after spine anethesia, but it's alresdy been two days for me 
In the afternoon Francesca helped me finish my first sets of clickings, which scared me a bit by the thought on what exactly it does to my leg. I need to not thinking about this or I may not be able to do it.She asked me to do a set of clickings myself last night, but I wasn't able to do it by myself.
You should get over your fear. If you will not lengthen your leg, it will consolidate...
You sort of knew what you are getting yourself into. So listen and do what the staff tells you to do
Hi dream catcher,
i think it will be your hardest week, but keep your mind strong. Is it your last day in the hospital? Will you ask for an helper after this?
You've got all my support my friend.
Taka
You're still in very early days my friend. It will get better. At about 2 or so weeks post-op, the pain will go down significantly. Sleep will suck throughout the entire process, but you'll be in less pain.
Then, once you get to about 5cm...that's what the pain comes back. And at 6cm...ugh.
Take it one day at a time. For me, clicking wasn't painful at all. Once I did it a few times, it was a piece of cake. Find the exact positions and motions you need to click, and you will be fine!
Today I made significant improvements.First, I managed to walk to the gym in the hospital with Mattisa's help! It took me at least 15 minutes to walk the 15m distance, but that's a milestone for me: it's the first time that I can walk to a place other than my hospital room 
Second, while in the gym, I eventually peed by myself, though it hurted badly maybe as a result of using catheter. I once worried if my nerve that controls peeing was damaged. Third, I rode an exercise bike in the gym for the first time and I pedalled for 15 minutes Sitting onto the seat and starting the first cycle of pedaling were difficult, but with the momentum of the first cycle, continuing pedaling was relatively easy.
After biking, Mattisa helped me clicking and a new problem occurred. We easily did the clicking for my left leg for 3 times and we made the first half of the first clicking of my right leg. However, we couldn't make the second half of that clicking. We tried a couple of times without success :p Mattisa cautiously suggested that we stop the clicking for my right leg. My mind was hanging in the air. Could the nail have a problem and need to be replaced? Another surgery to replace a nail...that's the last thing in the world I want :O
I anxiously contactef Dr. Guichet and Francisca for their help.Dr. Guichet told me that both Francisca and him would come by in the afternoon. Francesca came by first and she asked me several times whether I heard any clicking sound after we stopped clicking in the morning. I told her that I didn't. So she started to position my right leg for clicking and suddenly we heard a click...the missed second half of the clicking! And this time we had no problem finishing all the clickings for my right leg.
Dr. Guichet came by in the evening and his first question to me was "How many inflex exercises did I do today?" I told him that Matissa helped me do about 10 times for each leg. Obviously he wasn't satisfied with my answer and he questionsed me "Do you hve two months or one year for the procedure?" The he started rightaway to DO the exercise for me. Unlike Mattissa's letting-me-decide-when-to-stop or Francesca's lettng-me-do-it methods, Dr. Guichet asked me no to resist and pushed my legs directly to my maximum limits! Ouch, it was rather painful. However, his method made it very easy to click. He clicked 3 times nd asked me to click 3 times by myself on each leg. So we made up my missed clickings yesterday.
Before he left, he gave me a daunting task: do the inflex exercises the way he did it for 100 times for each leg tonight :O
reading your diary brought back some awful memories right after my surgery. stay strong! like yellowspike said I promise life will get a lot better after the first 2 weeks.
I know dr. G is asking a lot but try to do as much as possible. his recommendations are in your best interest and will make your life and recovery better later on
Tibike200: You are right. I have to do the clicking as scheduled by Dr. Guichet...by myself. And this evening I did all 5+5 clickings myself 
Takanori: I'm leaving the hospital tomorrow. People told me that the first few days after leaving the hospital are the toughest: we no longer use morphine as at the hospital so the level of pain increases sharply and the quality of the caretaking provided by a home helper, except a strong and caring family member, is much worse than that of the hospital nurses.
Yellowspike: I have lowered my expectations of the outcome of the lengthening significantly. Now I just want a reasonable growth like 5cm, free of complexions, tolerable pains, and decent recovery time. Probably I'm not as brave as you, I have realized that I am not an iron man and any of those kinds of unexpected situations might happen during the entire lengthening procedure and results in a failed lengthening.
Goldenegg: Thanks for your encouragement!
Last night I did finish the 100 reps of exercises but it took me an entire 3 hours and I only took 1 minute break between each 10 sets! Each rep was so difficult and painful.
I "walked" four times today: two were for exercises and helped by Mattia, two were for bathrooms and helped by nurses.I wanted to avoid going to the bathroom, but I haven't pooed for three days and my apitite decreased significantly today as a result. Every trip to the bathroom was like an intense battle: it was not only painful but exhausting. With a lot of prayings and hard working, I succedded in my last trip, although with unimaginable difficulties.Thank God, what a great relief!
And I finished 200 reps of the exercises today, as requested by Dr. Guichet. He told me that "We can't win the battle after two weeks." The first two weeks are the most critical step in the lengthening procedure, though they are the toughest. I know I might not be able to achieve the requirements of the exercises when I go back home, so I have to do as many as I can when I'm still at the hospital.
I have to say that all people who succeeded in lengthening are very fortunate. There are so many risks of failures, which only those undertakers can really understand. And the choice of an experienced, skiLL Forumul, and caring doctor like Dr. Guichet and his/her team is the cornerstone of the success!
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