Femurs & Tibias with Dr Paley

Update:
Surgery finished a couple hours ago, I am now laying in my room! I can move my legs a little, i expected to be immobile haha so that’s good. Virtually no pain, but very nauseas & drowsy
They gave me morphine pre surgery, shaved my legs & cleaned it with hibiclens

For everyone asking finance questions:
- so I never specifically saved up money, I do have a good amount of cushion couple 100K just from what I made over the years

Femurs Surgery / physio / 4 nights in the hospital package
- $97,500 USD

Lodging / hotels etc
- i rented an AIRBNB that is a 3 minute uber from the hospital. Managed to get one for roughly $8,000 CAD. I booked this im advance with another LL patient who is doing his surgery soon! He messaged me & it worked out perfectly! We split it so $4k each roughly for 3 momths (CAD). Now at first i was gonna book a hotel for 2 weeke cause Angelique told me i may need special wheelchair transportstion services hotel. After looking into it cheapest was WAY too much like a sick $120USD / night. I ended up booking an airbnb for 1st 2 weeks that is a 15 walk so my caretaker will push me on a wheelchair if needed.

Caretaker:
- at first they recommended one of their caretakers, but after getting a quote I almost had a heart attack cause they quoted me $10,000 USD.. NO THANKS. What i then did was.. i’m 24 so I have a lot of friends who don’t have full time jobs. This one friend in paticular i’m really close to and looks up to me alot (eventho he’s 5’11 haha) I asked if he’d be down to come live with me in West Palm beach for 1.5 months flight paid for free lodging & I’d give him $1000 cash. I didn’t tell him the surgery is LL but i told him i’d be on a wheelchaie for 2 weeks cause it’s a leg surgery. I’ll probably end up telling him. PS, I almost just puked while writing this but nothing came out cause I havnt eaten anything or drank watee. They got me hooked up for my liquids & for my pee. Anyways i’m pretty blessed for this situation to have worked out so well!! My caretaker will also be caring for another LL patient when my two weeks are done. We will all be living in the same Airbnb though so we’ll help each other.

GOAL:
I know i briefly talked about this but I got some new information from Dr.Paley i’d like to discuss.
My goal is full 8cm in the femurs & then 5-8cm in the tibs. Now, Dr.Paley has usually been super strict in the past & said he’ll not ever lengthen more than 6cm, but when I spoke to him he said the nail technically goes up to 8cm so if my body can handle it he’ll let me do it. He said the harder you work the better chances to maximize your length. It’s a long journey ahead. At 5’4 my proportions will still look good at 5’9-5’10 as I have normal proportions now slightly longer torso

Hope that answers everyone questions!! 

grats. Just wanted to tell you;
like me, alot of lurkers won't be posting in this diary but we will be following it religiously! this is the first Stryde diary after all.

God bless your journey

Please do not do any youtube documentry etc. Most of us wants to stay in the shadows.

I am so glad to hear that you may have your journey on YouTube.
I think CLL is still a developing technology , so if this is broadly known worldwide,
that will impact  in a good way for better and speeding up of the technology growth.

But of course understand its all up to you if you decide to put it in a public or not.
Hope you do well in your journey, good luck