How did you overcome your Fat Embo fears

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It looks like of all the possible complications this is by far the scariest one. To LL vets, how did you overcome this fear? 

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I guess I didn’t really think about it. I think the odds of it happening are extremely low...it’s like how come you get in a car every day even though there’s a chance you could die in a crash?

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Paley's current "Risks" page says even with "precautions our incidence of symptomatic fat embolism requiring treatment is 4%."   A 4% incidence rate for something that can kill you is scarier than getting in a car

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It's not as low as the likelihood of a car crash though, right?

I'll be honest I bought an Apple Watch even though it's probably not that accurate, but being able to check blood O2 on a whim is better than nothing.

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Quote from: Stryde2021 on October 29, 2020, 08:15:42 PMPaley's current "Risks" page says even with "precautions our incidence of symptomatic fat embolism requiring treatment is 4%."   A 4% incidence rate for something that can kill you is scarier than getting in a car

is that current data? I think that might've been old probabilities, today it's lower, and I agree with Mule, although I knew about Fat embolism I just put negative thoughts out of my head and thought positively, prayed everything would turn out fine and thankfully it did. No risk no gain, simple as that.

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Quote from: Movie on October 29, 2020, 08:27:20 PMis that current data? I think that might've been old probabilities, today it's lower, and I agree with Mule, although I knew about Fat embolism I just put negative thoughts out of my head and thought positively, prayed everything would turn out fine and thankfully it did. No risk no gain, simple as that.

Thanks, legend.  Did Dr. M say anything about it beforehand?

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Deep bone infection leading to amputation above the knee is more scary to me.

This fear makes me want to do one leg at a time. Also doing one leg at a time reduces chances of fat embo by half.

Regarding fat embolism I've still not found one source clearly telling how long after surgery you are completely safe. There are docs who don't even prescribe blood thinners and there are those that prescribe them till even after lengthening.

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Can embolism happen even long after the surgery and the lengthening? Like years down the line?

Sorry completely ignorant on biology, just I remeber reading somewhere something that I understood like that

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Quote from: GenralizedAnxietyDisorder on October 29, 2020, 08:32:19 PMDeep bone infection leading to amputation above the knee is more scary to me.

This fear makes me want to do one leg at a time. Also doing one leg at a time reduces chances of fat embo by half.

Regarding fat embolism I've still not found one source clearly telling how long after surgery you are completely safe. There are docs who don't even prescribe blood thinners and there are those that prescribe them till even after lengthening.

Where have you heard of a case of infection nearly that bad in CLL?

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Quote from: InStrydeMyFaith on October 29, 2020, 08:40:44 PMCan embolism happen even long after the surgery and the lengthening? Like years down the line?

Sorry completely ignorant on biology, just I remeber reading somewhere something that I understood like that

No it can't. And if you do antithrombotic injections against it is is very rare.
I did them for 1 month after surgery. External tibias are safer than internals though.
Maybe with internals they would give me blood thinners for more time.