Day 32 after the operation (Wednesday 24 / February / 21):
The night has been very good. I have slept from 1:00 to 8:00 and I have only woken up with a slight discomfort in my legs. I have taken a pain reliever and I have spent a little more time in bed until 9:00.
After breakfast I have stretched my muscles, I have lengthened my legs and I have stretched my muscles again. The doctor has recommended that I stretch my muscles just before each lengthening to reduce pain. At 12:00 I had a physiotherapy session and he massaged my legs hard. The physical therapist has used an electro-stimulation machine to release tension from the sciatic nerve. After the physiotherapy session we went to the office where I work. I'm going to start working from home next week, so I wanted to get back in touch with my colleagues.
In my case I have not wanted to hide my operation. I think that if I don't tell them the truth at some point someone will realize that something strange has happened, so I have decided to tell the truth to people who ask me why I am walking with crutches ...
In the afternoon I felt a little pain in my legs, but it was lighter than the previous days. The last lengthening session I felt a little pain in my knees, like a cramp, but soon after it has disappeared. Before going to bed I took a pain reliever and I was able to sleep. Today I only spent a half hour in bed to get to sleep. 
Femurs growth with Stryde in Barcelona
Day 33 after the operation (Thursday 25 / February / 21):
The night has been quite good, I only woke up at 4:00, I took a pain reliever and shortly after I went back to sleep. I got up rested and strong, so I was able to lengthen my legs and stretch my muscles without problems. I have tried walking indoors without crutches for short distances and have felt that it is still too early to walk without crutches for a long time. After the 16:00 stretching and lengthening session I felt a bit of tension in my knees and the outer area of the shins. Despite that, we have gone to my parents' house, a distance of 250 meters. I have been walking on crutches at a slow pace. As the pain did not go away after taking painkillers, my father massaged my legs. When we came home for dinner I asked my father to take me home in his car, because I still did not feel well to walk home. After dinner the pain has disappeared, as I have taken another pain reliever and this time it has been effective. Before going to bed I have stretched my muscles again and lengthened my legs, but I have not noticed pain, I have only felt a slight discomfort in my knees. It took me a long time to sleep, because I had discomfort and could not be comfortable lying in bed.
Day 34 after the operation (Friday 26 / February / 21):
The night was similar to the previous one, because I only woke up at 5:30 and after taking a pain reliever I went back to sleep until 8:30. I have had breakfast early and have lengthened my legs, then we went to get an X-ray to see the progress. After checking that everything is going well, I have had a physiotherapy session. The physiotherapist has told me that my muscles are still very flexible, and he has treated my nerves with electro stimulation. In the afternoon, after the lengthening session, I felt a little pain, so I took the rest of the day calm, without moving much. After dinner, I spent some time relaxing on the sofa so comfortable and relaxed that I forgot during this time that I had surgery ... At 11:30 p.m. I stretched my muscles and lengthened my legs. Right after I felt tension in my knees and a little pain in my legs, so I waited to lie down until I took a pain reliever at 1:30.
I have already lengthened my legs 2.3 cms.
In this link I have published the photo of the last X-ray:
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Day 35 after the operation (Saturday 27 / February / 21):
On the night from Friday to Saturday I have woken up only once, at 6:00. After taking a pain reliever I went back to sleep until 9:30. In the morning I walked home on crutches and I felt fine. I have also gone out for a walk with my wife, my children and my mother-in-law. To avoid the fatigue of my legs I have gone out with the wheelchair. We have traveled almost 3 kms. When I got home, I lay down on the bed and fell asleep, as it was the first time that I had traveled such a long distance without anyone pushing me with the wheelchair ... After the lengthening session and the exercise exercises. stretching we have been relaxed on the couch. I have returned to walking with the crutches inside the house and I have felt my legs a little sore. Shortly after, the pain disappeared and my parents came to spend the afternoon with us. At dinner time they returned home and we had dinner on the sofa while we watched a movie on TV. I have been without pain for a long time, but at 11:30 PM I lengthened my legs and felt discomfort in my knees and in the tibia area again until 1:30 AM, when we went to bed.
Since I have resumed lengthening I can sleep quite well at night, although I do not sleep the whole night, but I can control pain better than the days before the lengthening break.
Soon I will post new videos of walking and stretching exercises 
Does traveling far in a wheelchair tire you out? It seems like even that would be very tiring after such a big surgery 
Quote from: Vibes on February 28, 2021, 06:39:10 PMDoes traveling far in a wheelchair tire you out? It seems like even that would be very tiring after such a big surgery
It really does not seem so difficult to move around the city in a wheelchair, but when your arms are not used to moving a wheelchair and you travel a distance of 3 km with unevenness and without help from anyone ... Your arms get tired, you I assure. Today I feel stiff ...
Day 36 after the operation (Sunday 28 / February / 21):
The night today was also quite good, I was able to sleep from 2:00 to 7:00, I woke up with pain in my legs but I took a pain reliever and went back to sleep shortly after. I got out of bed without pain at 9:15. I have spent the morning quite calm. I have lengthened my legs and been doing stretching exercises for a long time. Late in the morning I lay down in bed because my legs were bothering me. At lunchtime, my legs felt much better and I was able to walk a little on crutches. After the lengthening session in the afternoon, at 17:00 I felt very good, so I have walked several times without the crutches, my wife recorded it.
Then we went to my parents' house to spend the rest of the afternoon, I went walking with the crutches. From 7:00 p.m. I started to feel a little pain in my legs, and shortly after we returned home. To ease the pain, at home, I have lain on the bed to stretch my muscles while my wife bathed the children ...
I have already managed to catch up, so from now on I will try to post the daily progress without having to talk about several days past ...
In this link you can see my progress walking, I have already grown 2.5 cms 
Day 37 after the operation (Monday 01 / March / 21):
Today was my first day working from home. Although I had to wake up early, I was able to rest well. I only woke up in pain at 5:00, but was back to sleep quickly after taking a pain reliever.
I got out of bed at 7:50, had breakfast and started working from the room at 8:30. At 9:30 I stopped for a moment to stretch my muscles and I lengthened my legs. Right afterwards I sat down again to work until 14:30. I've been feeling pretty good, I've only had to get out of the chair a couple of times to take a break and move my legs. After eating I went back to work sitting in the room with hardly any discomfort. At 17:00 I have finished working and have returned to stretching exercises and have lengthened my legs. Shortly afterwards, I felt a lot of pain in my left leg, specifically in the sciatic nerve and in the outer area of the tibia. We have gone to my parents' house, I have been walking with the crutches. I have asked my mother to give me a massage and thanks to that it has soothed the pain a lot. To return home and not reload my leg, I have walked supporting almost all of my body weight on 2 crutches at the same time. I already feel much better, I am sitting on the sofa massaging my legs so that I can arrive relaxed for the last lengthening session of the day.
Day 40 after the operation (Thursday 04 / March / 21):
From now on I will not write every day, because many days are very similar ... Also, since I started working I am busier and I do not have time to write everything that I have spent in the day.
On Monday night I finally did not lengthen my legs, I took a break because I felt a lot of pain just at the time of the session ... Thanks to that I had a good night and on Tuesday I had a very good morning despite having resumed lengthening of my legs. I went to the physical therapist and he told me that my walking on crutches had improved. Yesterday I also woke up rested and with little discomfort, but in the afternoon, after lengthening my legs, I felt pain and I had to spend the rest of the day stretching my muscles and sitting on the sofa.
Last night I slept quite well again, from 1:00 to 7:00 and from 7:30 to 8:30. Today I also felt good in the morning and I went to the physiotherapist. Every day he tells me that I am improving and I am still very flexible. I have not had contractures in my legs for a long time. In the afternoon, after lengthening my legs, I felt pain in my hips and knees again, but I stretched my muscles and walked on crutches and I felt much better. In the late afternoon I felt so good that I have walked indoors without the crutches, I have recorded 2 videos:
According to my calculations I have grown 3 cm
Day 46 after the operation (Wednesday 10 / March / 21):
Hello everybody!
After a few days without much change, I write again to tell you how I am progressing ...
Since the last day I wrote, I haven't felt pain, just sometimes I felt short times nervous tension in tibs. I continue to lengthen my legs 3 times a day, 0.81 mm in total. I have started doing more stretching exercises throughout the day: I stretch my hamstrings and quadriceps 5-6 times a day for 10 minutes when I feel a little tension.
The nights are getting better since I am doing more stretching, I keep waking up once, but I dont need long time to get sleep.
On Sunday morning I felt so good that I was able to walk at home for 10 minutes without using crutches ...
Since I have passed the 3 cm barrier I feel that little by little my muscles become more tense, but with the stretching exercises at home and the physiotherapy sessions I am overcoming the tension ... I hope I could continue like this much longer, but I know that the positive evolution will not last long, I still have more than half of the way to goal (8 cms.) ...
I've posted some videos today, one stretching and one walking at home.
I will come back soon!!
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