Fitbone Stage Right Tibia Lenghtening (Dr. Monegal), Barcelona, Spain

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Hello Cooper,

Firstly, thankyou for such a detailed and informative diary. i have a few questions for you, if you could please answer them.

1) cost of surgury
2) where are you staying at for duration of surgury and its cost.
3) how long after your first surgury will you have your second surgury.

Thank you

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hey cooper,

hope your doing fine. since you encouraged participating, two questions for you

1) how long are you staying in barcelona? will you eventually move to MIC?

2) I'm planning to do a two-stage procedure in octobre (femurs). do you think it's possible to return to a somehow normal life (office job) while lengthening?


take care

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Physio Vector with extending smile. He is awesome. We talked lot about other stuff such as culture, life style in Barcelona and game of thrones. There are other two physio Ricardo and Edgar. Both of them equally good and competent.

http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/23617104/Physio_Vector_With_Extended_Smile.jpg.html

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Food is really amazing at the hospital. Almost resonate eating at the fine restaurant. I am going to miss the food. Today's lunch:

http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/23617137/Fish_With_Spinach_and_Pasta_for_Lunch.jpg.html

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Quote from: TrueSpartan on July 19, 2015, 08:49:26 AMHello Cooper,

Firstly, thankyou for such a detailed and informative diary. i have a few questions for you, if you could please answer them.

1) cost of surgury
2) where are you staying at for duration of surgury and its cost.
3) how long after your first surgury will you have your second surgury.

Thank you

Hey TrueSpartan- thanks for dropping by. I was like you guys few years ago suk all the diaries on the both forum. Hoping to achieve dream some day. I can totally relate to you folks. So feel free ask me anything.

Cost break down:
1. Wire to Hospital: 14,600 Euro
2. Medical Fee:

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Sorry post way early.

Cost:
Hospital Fee: 14,600 Euro
Medical Fee:   4,000 Euro
Lodging: 1280-1400 Euro depending upon room.

I will be only staying for 3 weeks. One week at Clinica Diagonal and two weeks at St. Jordi.

I am shooting for second tibia around mid October.

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Quote from: axelf on July 19, 2015, 10:24:25 AMhey cooper,

hope your doing fine. since you encouraged participating, two questions for you

1) how long are you staying in barcelona? will you eventually move to MIC?

2) I'm planning to do a two-stage procedure in octobre (femurs). do you think it's possible to return to a somehow normal life (office job) while lengthening?


take care

I will probably leave to MIC (St. Jordi) tomorrow. I will be there for two weeks and back home.

I think you can definitely return to work office confine environment. I am planning on working right after I get back home. I am also working from hospital bed. I had few conferences yesterday and day before. What can I say-- I am an workaholic guy.

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Wow this is amazing, your second LL journey! It is hard to believe that more than a year ago, we were planning about our first LL surgery and discussing how the surgery would go. Time goes by really fast You're a trooper for undergoing another LL surgery, something that I cannot imagine doing again.
Anyway, all the best and stay strong buddy.

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Hi Cooper,

Thank you for your help. I am trying to figure out a way to move money into Spain to pay for everything. But it sounds like it was very easy for you. Maybe I am over-thinking it? Can you clarify some things on what steps you did to physically pay, please:

1. Hospital Fee. Did you just wire the money directly from your home country? How long did it take? How does the hospital match up your patient ID with the transaction history?

2. Medical Fee. Did you just bring this in cash? Or can it be wired into another account as well?

3. Lodging. Am I correct to guess you will just swipe your credit card for that?

Also, another question that I am trying to ask any foreigner that has been to Spain. How difficult is it for a foreign tourist to walk into a bank and open a bank account? Anything special required?

Hope your transfer to MIC St. Jordi goes smoothly today, all the best!

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 Quote from: TRS on July 19, 2015, 01:36:15 PMWow this is amazing, your second LL journey! It is hard to believe that more than a year ago, we were planning about our first LL surgery and discussing how the surgery would go. Time goes by really fast You're a trooper for undergoing another LL surgery, something that I cannot imagine doing again.
Anyway, all the best and stay strong buddy.

I know TRS. We were so excited last year planning and getting this journey together in South Africa. I remember talking with you many times. Some of the Skype were wee hours of the morning. We both achieved our dream! I am really happy at least we were at least able to support each other during this tough time.

I had to do this and was kind of bothering me. I had to get this out of my way and move on to my life. Here I am with broken leg again but very happy indeed 

So far things are moving along very fine and hope it stays the same in coming days.