Internal femurs with Dr Paley

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Quote from: just do it on June 20, 2019, 02:18:56 AMDay 2 of surgery

Pain
Today is a very tough day, everything start to hurt. I have to overcome the painfulness by eating medicine.

Appetite
My appetite is not great today, the only way to have energy is by hanging brine.

Walk
The PT came today and taught me how to get out of bed and get into the wheel chair. It is not easy job.

Hopefully, I will be discharged tomorrow.


First few days are hardest, after that smooth sailing if you do PT and follow routine, God bless

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Surgery day3:
Unfortunately I can’t be discharge today since my oxygen level is way too low which means I need oxygen mask to breath in air. However, I am starting to feel better today, I should be able to be discharged by this weekend.
Exercise:
The PT came today and started to simple exercise with my leg, by pulling my leg up and down.

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Quote from: just do it on June 21, 2019, 12:08:18 AMSurgery day3:
Unfortunately I can’t be discharge today since my oxygen level is way too low which means I need oxygen mask to breath in air. However, I am starting to feel better today, I should be able to be discharged by this weekend.
Exercise:
The PT came today and started to simple exercise with my leg, by pulling my leg up and down.

Did they tell you why your oxygen level is so low? That doesn’t seem typical from what I’ve read.

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@jaybam I have just asked the nurse, she said that they are afraid that I will have blood clot since after the surgery the blood moves very slowly as I don’t move very often. I also ate aspirin to prevent this from happening.

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Stay strong man. Everyday will get better!

If you could describe your pain experience so far out of 10, what would you say its been at on average?

Best wishes!

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Surgery Day4:
Sorry for not posting yesterday since I’m feeling unwell.
Lack of oxygen:
I got discharged today. Everything is going smoothly, however, during the night  I got low oxygen again, which makes me really sick.
Toilet:
I tried to go to the toilet with my walker, it doesn’t work and I almost fainted.
Itchy:
I got itchy near my wound, which means my wound is getting better.
Pain:
Normally, my pain level is at around 3-4, I overcome the pain by eating oxycodone. It normally gets better around 10-20 minutes.

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Nice to hear things are going smoothly for you as these days are usually quite bad. You’re only experiencing 4/10 pain. Well I shouldn’t say only but yeah so far so good!

Best wishes !

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Surgery Day 5+6:
Toilet:
I can finally go to the toilet by myself with the walker with great success.
Pain:
My pain level started to rise, especially near my wound. Which means that I have to eat Oxycondone or acetaminophen depending on the level of pain 4 hours after each medication.(Acetaminophen is from the pain level of 1-3 and Oxycodone is from pain level of 4-10)
Physical Therapy.
Tomorrow,(Monday24) I am going to have my first physical therapy session. Hopefully, it wont hurt a lot.
Appetite:
My appetite is not really good these days, since I can’t really move on my bed, whenever I start to move, my leg start to hurt. I think it is because I didn’t move a lot so I can’t eat much.
I will try to update my diary everyday, but I am really tired these days due to the rising level of pain on my legs.

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Just take it easy. Focus all your energy on your legs. Update whenever is convenient for you.

All the best!

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Physical Therapy
Yesterday, I started my physical therapy. I did about 6 exercises. I found that the Thomas Stretch helped me a lot. It is a process by which I have to lie both legs bent over the edge of firm surfaces, bring the opposite knee to chest. Apply downward pressure to the leg.  It really hurt, but I know it is good for me since it relaxes my muscle a lot and I feel less pain afterwards.

Removing bandages
Today, the doctor checked my wound, luckily, everything is good. I can remove my bandages.

Limb Lengthening
I started my process of leg lengthening today, 0.25mm each time, 4 times a day. This is not a hard or painful process. I used a magnetic machine pressed on my leg for about 2 minutes on both legs.

Pain
My leg starts to feel much better, which means I would be able to sleep better without have much pain medicine.


Within the one week of my surgery, I found that this is not an easy journey, first few days are the worst. After that, if you follow the therapist, it will go smoothly. Not given up is the key aspect of this whole journey.


Please feel free to ask me any question regarding my limb lengthening journey or anything that I have written in this forum.

I want to attach a photo of my stitches on one of my leg, but it  didn’t work. Can someone tell me how to upload the photos? Thanks in advance.