G-Nail on femurs in Greece on Aug24th. Let's do this!!!

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Quote from: bara123 on September 28, 2022, 07:47:51 PMHi Ozboy39
Congrats on your LL journey!! . I arrived  at the Montaza recently and will be doing my surgery tomorrow with Dr Giotikas

Thinking of moving to the Novotel after 3-4 weeks given the amenities as I don't really like the idea of being confined to a small room for a long period of time.

How often do you find yourself using the hotel amenities like the pool, gym etc and how does their laundry service work at the Novotel? Thanks

Congrats to you too. And good luck on the surgery tomorrow.

I use them all the time I feel I can get there. Especially the gym. I use a lot their rooftop area as a way to chill during the day. The pool not so often yet but I hope I'll go more as I regain more mobility.

I do not use their laundry because it is expensive (don't remember the price but it was ridiculously expensive). But you can book a laundry service for 9 euro on Wolf l. They come pick it up, do the laundry and deliver it back so... Pretty convenient.

Let us know how you go tomorrow.
 I'm sure you'll be super stoked after waking up.

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Novotel dinner menu for the folks who are interested

https://i.imgur.com/4OuS9jZ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/IKzSsjW.jpg

There's a variety of drinks obviously but didn't take any photo

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Thanks for a picture of the menu. Looks like there's a good variety of food/drinks there. How much are you spending on food each week atm?

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Surgery completed! And feeling is somewhat surreal and amazing. Can't describe how excited when I woke up and found myself realizing I'm ACTUALLY doing this
https://imgur.com/a/gW81SJB

Will be talking to Evi in the next couple of days about the novotel as the rooftop looks stunning and would be great to me you and other LL patients to share our experiences

Thanks for the pictures.did you book your stay of Novotel the entire 2 months in advance? Or do you inform the hotel that you wish to further we extend your stay?

Made a mistake booking two months in advance(paid)with Montaza and will see what options are if I could swap over to Novotel 

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Quote from: bara123 on September 29, 2022, 03:18:37 PMSurgery completed! And feeling is somewhat surreal and amazing. Can't describe how excited when I woke up and found myself realizing I'm ACTUALLY doing this
https://imgur.com/a/gW81SJB

Will be talking to Evi in the next couple of days about the novotel as the rooftop looks stunning and would be great to me you and other LL patients to share our experiences

Thanks for the pictures.did you book your stay of Novotel the entire 2 months in advance? Or do you inform the hotel that you wish to further we extend your stay?

Made a mistake booking two months in advance(paid)with Montaza and will see what options are if I could swap over to Novotel
Congrats on having the surgery! How do you feel? Will you make your own diary about your experience?

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Quote from: thankscience on September 29, 2022, 11:47:05 AMThanks for a picture of the menu. Looks like there's a good variety of food/drinks there. How much are you spending on food each week atm?

I'd say about 150 to 200Euro per week. That is because I don't have breakfast included in the hotel cost (I opened up the dances at Novotel sort of speak so I didn't have the deal that the doctor has cut now for all future patients).

So, 15 euro per day on breakfast which also makes my lunch as they open until 1030am and I am an early riser and so my first breakky usually happens at 630 to 700am.
Then dinner varies from 10 to 20 euro each.

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Quote from: bara123 on September 29, 2022, 03:18:37 PMSurgery completed! And feeling is somewhat surreal and amazing. Can't describe how excited when I woke up and found myself realizing I'm ACTUALLY doing this
https://imgur.com/a/gW81SJB

Will be talking to Evi in the next couple of days about the novotel as the rooftop looks stunning and would be great to me you and other LL patients to share our experiences

Thanks for the pictures.did you book your stay of Novotel the entire 2 months in advance? Or do you inform the hotel that you wish to further we extend your stay?

Made a mistake booking two months in advance(paid)with Montaza and will see what options are if I could swap over to Novotel

Man I'm so happy for you and looking forward to meet up soon when you get outta there. Glad to hear you are in a good mood now.

Please my 2 cents suggestion. The mood might swing up and down these days especially when you're off the IV painkillers and back to the hotel.
keep that in mind and always remember that it's normal. The first 2.weeks are a bit rough for everyone but we all get through it fine.

Then if you're having issue cancelling and refunding from montaza, get Evi to talk to them directly. they bring montaza tons of patients so I'm sure she'd have a good leverage on them.

And also She's really good at pushing a point with peoplr and very helpful in general.

I had booked Novotel in two stages so to have the option to change in case I didn't like it. But I did like it so....I'm still here.

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Your advice and diary has honestly helped me a lot in terms of what to expect and man I get what you mean about mood swings.

This morning woke up feeling like my legs were logs and had pain with movements/stretches. Just trying to keep a good mental mindset and might possibly start my own diary. Vision was blurry yesterday so difficulty typing

Did some walks on the walker but any tips on what I can do to be less afraid since I feel super wobbly from the knees? Does this stop after a while?

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Happy to hear that. Thanks!!!

One thing the physiotherapist told me the first day that really resonated with me was:

"Expect every day to feel a different pain, different type and different areas of your legs". Some days these pains are milder and you can sort of disregard them. Some other days, they are more intense and they last the whole day. There's not much we can do about it, but at least know that this is how it's gonna be. And it's normal. Some guys have it better some guys worse than others.

For the Walker, I just tried to make sure my legs were locked out straight when dropping on them. And pretty much used my upper body only to move around.

Another suggestion (strong suggestion) at this stage you're at is to NOT overdo it. When I was there I was reading many diaries from either older G-nail or Betz or guichet patients. Some of them describing walking after a few days.. walking 500mt on day 7 or so... So I tried to push myself.

Wrong. I just set myself back with knee and hip pains. And this happens to me everytime I feel good and the joint pain recedes... I overdo it and then I screw myself up for the next 3 or 4 days. Listen to your body. When it start hurting too much, stop and chill.

 We are lucky enough that we do 4 days a week of specialised PT for this thing. On top of that, yes we need to do stretching at home (at a lower intensity) and some movement...but always conservative (5, 10 minutes every now and then which is basically doing basic chores, and moving around the hotel). As soon as the joints feel a bit sore or fatigued please stop.

If not, the muscle and everything else becomes stiffer and sore and that will affect everything else (clicks, PT, mobility)for the next 3 or 4 days.and it feels awful.

So... Take it easy, move a lot in bed (raise your legs, move them up and down, stretch them as they showed you, feel how weird they feel when you rotate them or move sideways.... You know what I mean right?) but don't feel the pressure of having to do "hours" of work.

Just that.

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Have you seen any petite people (especially females) using the Gnail there?