I've been asking several questions on this forum and for some reason I forgot the most crucial one of all. How did you guys take a poop when you can't walk? I read that some people have attendants with them. But some of you guys lengthened alone. How did you do it? 
I barely ate anything before the surgery and didn't go until a few days later when I was allowed to get up and move to the toilet by myself, specifically because I didn't want some poor nurse to have to get a bed pan for me. On days where it was too painful to step, I'd lower myself to the floor carefully, scoot backwards to the toilet, and lift myself onto it.
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When was the first actual bath you took post-surgery? Do you just clean yourself with a cloth for months? 
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When was the first actual bath you took post-surgery? Do you just clean yourself with a cloth for months?
An attendant in the hospital would clean me with a cloth each morning (I insisted on wiping my genitals myself though). I continued cloth baths until the staples were removed from my tibia and fibula osteotomies, at which point I was allowed to shower and get the frames and pin sites wet. Actual baths where I could sit and soak in water didn't happen until after frame removal. Since you'll be doing internals, I think you'll be able to soak in a bath just as soon as any incision sites have closed up.
I had a handicap accessible bathroom and I just wheeled into the bathroom and used upper body strength to transfer on toilet. Alternatively you could buy a portable toilet thing and just use that by your bed. It stinks horrible though.
I used a wheelchair and hold onto things when moving from wheelchair to toilet. You can also move with your butt.
I did tibial lengthening so I honestly don't know how femur people did.
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