hey guys!
please hold off the commenting for a while as i said i want to lay off the forum for a while
of course i didn't say f u to him. i expressed my anger in a much more civil yet obviously angry way. just two concise paragraphs about how i think he installed the screw wrong and how as the best LL doc in the world, he should admit to his mistake. i told him that i admit the problem is small, but that this is an attack on his personality rather than on the end result of LLing and i wanted an apology.
but behind my civil words, u can definitely see the anger, especially since i anger dialed him 15 times after he obviously hanged up on me
here is my vid explaining what happened
let me make the next post. that will signal when i ready to return to the forum
Leechlet Internal Femur 2014 Dr Guichet
hey smallguy
love to skye and be friend with u on fb! its expensive to make calls to the US here, but my skype is LeechletLL
hey guys, havent posted for a while. here is dr guichet's response to my problem
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I understand your concern as it is the problem linked to this period of lengthening with healing reaction and tension over the nail, screws… everywhere! The right side hurts more during clicking because ratchets are lifted on that side by clicking rotation. Pain is increased by strong healing with local inflammation, which is completely normal and happens in all patients. It is the fact of lengthening. IT WILL SOLVE BY ITSELF.
You nail is perfectly inserted and very solid. There is no fracture or other sign at risk, as you suspected at once. We insert the nail through the skin and soft tissues and getting perfect symmetry without opening and identical positioning among patients is impossible, and not needed. The small things that you think are important on x-rays have no real implications, and some patients have far longer screws than you with no pain at all. Your pain is not linked to that but to the healing phase. Other things are far more important: getting good screws and nail to allow full walking, sports, doing bike from the first post-operative day, evaluation we provide on muscles and bone quality, preoperative professional training, following the recommendations, etc.
To make thing clear for your complaint, you have 0 pain out of clics, 0 pain during clic on the left and a pain of 2/10 on the right at clicking and this without any pain killers. It is self explanatory. The rest is a large stress reaction induced by the lengthening. So do not worry.
As I told you, the changes in the body added to the lengthening principle (you get in 2 months what Natural growth provides in the femurs in 60 months; it is like running at 300 miles per hour for a human being!!!), are unknown and destabilize your psychological side, creating psychological stress.
The only concern in the thorough follow-up I offer to my patients is to check there is nothing abnormal, which is confirmed for you, and to accept the fact of lengthening and healing. So you need to control your stress in this life experience, as you would do if you jumping from a bridge with an elastic cord.
I perfectly understand your stress, but it should not deviate you to strictly follow ALL recommandations (10 sessions of full exercices per day, 1.5 hours of bike per day, 1 hour pif walking per day (difficult to perform in other tens with other nails), in order to optimize your recovery and healing. Any deviation (generally due to a high stress level) will slow down the functional recovery.
We are here to coach you and help you closely in your procedure, with a constant and thorough control.
Have a nice day.
Jean-Marc Guichet, MD, PhD, Doct. Sci.
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13009 Marseille - France
Office: +33.491.777.547
Office (mobile): +33.664.163.890
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ust a quick update,
The screw problem on the right is no longer causing pain, or at least not as much. It's still harder to click the right than the left, but no where near as bad as a week and half ago.
Right now, I have bigger problems to worry about. I lost over 10% body weight. It's weird, bc despite getting LLing and gettting Julia back (if u've been following my channel, i started talking to my college sweetheart again, the girl i got LL for), i am depressed and lack energy all the time. This is partially psychological as I ran out of things to live for and need to make new goals, but it's mostly due to the fact that my body has lost a tremendous amount of mass. Dr Guichet said that if this continues, i am at risk for suicide.
I asked for anti depressants, but he said the best thing is to EAT MORE and MOVE MORE. to be honest, i have been skipping trainning a lot to be in bed all day listening to sad music and contemplating my life and sleep. i don't even have any interest in women anymore. i can't even finish one campaign on SC2, something i used to be able to play 14 hrs a day.
this is why i haven't been posting. i just want to be alone. i feel tired and weak. i am no longer in pain, and stopped pain medication long ago. i feel like a teenager again, a pre adolesence teenager. i appreciate music 18973457432975x more than before.
i am determined to slowly gain back my weight and keep up with the rehab routine. i have been rlly behind the trainning, but dr guichet thinks i can still get to 10cm if i get my shi* together NOW. and you bet i will. all my life, things have been handed to me. all my life, i put blame on others. my parents would've paid for any LL doctor I asked for. i got Julia back, she who accepted me when i was short and now supports me despite not agreeing to this contraversial surgery. and yet, i lay wasted in the battlefield.
it's time to GET BACK UP. it's time to FIGHT BACK
just watch me. i have everything i asked for on paper. if i fail now, there's no one to blame but myself. this is my hour of EVOLUTION. i will come back to my family and beautiful Julia, not just 10cm taller, but a much stronger and more compassionate person. this is not given to me. this is something i have to earn for myself
ust a quick update,
The screw problem on the right is no longer causing pain, or at least not as much. It's still harder to click the right than the left, but no where near as bad as a week and half ago.
Right now, I have bigger problems to worry about. I lost over 10% body weight. It's weird, bc despite getting LLing and gettting Julia back (if u've been following my channel, i started talking to my college sweetheart again, the girl i got LL for), i am depressed and lack energy all the time. This is partially psychological as I ran out of things to live for and need to make new goals, but it's mostly due to the fact that my body has lost a tremendous amount of mass. Dr Guichet said that if this continues, i am at risk for suicide.
I asked for anti depressants, but he said the best thing is to EAT MORE and MOVE MORE. to be honest, i have been skipping trainning a lot to be in bed all day listening to sad music and contemplating my life and sleep. i don't even have any interest in women anymore. i can't even finish one campaign on SC2, something i used to be able to play 14 hrs a day.
this is why i haven't been posting. i just want to be alone. i feel tired and weak. i am no longer in pain, and stopped pain medication long ago. i feel like a teenager again, a pre adolesence teenager. i appreciate music 18973457432975x more than before.
i am determined to slowly gain back my weight and keep up with the rehab routine. i have been rlly behind the trainning, but dr guichet thinks i can still get to 10cm if i get my shi* together NOW. and you bet i will. all my life, things have been handed to me. all my life, i put blame on others. my parents would've paid for any LL doctor I asked for. i got Julia back, she who accepted me when i was short and now supports me despite not agreeing to this contraversial surgery. and yet, i lay wasted in the battlefield.
it's time to GET BACK UP. it's time to FIGHT BACK
just watch me. i have everything i asked for on paper. if i fail now, there's no one to blame but myself. this is my hour of EVOLUTION. i will come back to my family and beautiful Julia, not just 10cm taller, but a much stronger and more compassionate person. this is not given to me. this is something i have to earn for myself
Hey, dude...don't think anymore about 10 cm!...instead, think about every click and exercise and eating and resting you have to put in actual practice and in concrete now..here and now...so go for just these four things!
They will lead you to your goal or very close to it.
We cheer for you, Leechlet!
P.S.: Dr Guichet should re-evaluate all his psychological evaluation stuffs with dr Bisagni 
...his psychiatrist would go mad with you, my friend!
Hey, dude...don't think anymore about 10 cm!...instead, think about every click and exercise and eating and resting you have to put in actual practice and in concrete now..here and now...so go for just these four things!
They will lead you to your goal or very close to it.
We cheer for you, Leechlet!
P.S.: Dr Guichet should re-evaluate all his psychological evaluation stuffs with dr Bisagni ...his psychiatrist would go mad with you, my friend!
Hey, thanks guys for reading and replying to my posts! Thanks Apotheosis for your masterful advise! I was going to re-raise Guichet for another barrel until I read your message. It's interesting how calmly he took the whole thing. He told me how he spent one hr arguing on the phone with a patient and how my explosions are normal and in my opinion shorter in time cost and my arguments are much more rational.
Anyhow, I feel rlly happy this morning. Cheesy It is 8AM. I am gonna make a vid to capture this too, but I just felt like posting. I dont feel depressed anymore. I did a lot of mental rewiring in the last few days. Am i still underweight? Am I still suffering from bad sleep quality? Am I still handicapped? Yes, all these conditions are still true...
So what changed?
Well, let me start off by saying that 6 month ago, if I was to write a list of all my goals on a paper, it would look like this:
1. get LL (somehow, I don't know how I will pay for it)
2. get a girl who compliments me
3. contribute something unique to this world
4. win the World Series of Poker
Now, today I have
1. gotten LL, to all the terms and conditions i specified
2. gotten not only A girl, but THE girl back --> Julia Cool
3. did the first extensive Vlog of LL soon to be keyword indexed to show up front on youtube when searching "limb lengthening". see if my silicon valley friends can top that. Grin okay sure, they have companies. but i am the only guy i know doing LLing, let alone documenting it
4. still have to win the WSOP. but that's gonna have to wait until 2015 at least i think, probably never...
So basically on paper i gotten a lot of the things I wanted, but I still felt empty. I caught myself wishing that:
1. I owned a large company like my friends and more importantly my dad, who always overshadowed me
2. changed the world in doing so. that's something my dad can't claim
3. etc etc
You get the point. And then, I was like "hold up dude, wtf!" i mean, seriously. i spent the last half a decade or so pursing my previous goals. and now that i've gotten it, i am just gonna move on and not care about LL anymore? i realized that success in achieving my goals brought MUCH LESS lasting happiness than i expected. in total, getting my wishes probably brought me no more than 50 hours of happiness. so i spent 100k for 50 hours of happiness.... that's like Paris Hilton number!!
so i decided to change my strategy in life. i decided that i need to learn to appreciate what i have more. i think it's more than luck that my helper Wilbert is a poor but deeply religious man. he is someone who has nothing and yet appreciates everything, and so he is very content inside. i am like almost the opposite. i was always that brat who screamed and then got things my way. i bend ppl to my will. for example, the psychologist thought given time, i wouldn't need to get LL. but i MADE SURE he moved out of my way. that's my style. i distort reality. i am never contented. i am always seeking the next high and taking shots. which is fine, i think. but there's has to be a balance. basically, i made a conscious decision that i am not going to wait until i achieved my next goal before i can be happy. i can be happy NOW
i wake up and go to sleep thinking of all the good things i have NOW. and i bask myself in this moment to remember that yes, despite being handicapped, i am sooo lucky to purse my dream at such a young age, even if my dream turned out to be a lot tougher than i thought. but i thought back to my tough times in life, and i realized that some of my happiest moments where when things didn't go smoothly and easily. those were the moments i rlly dailed in and evolved. watching my surgery vids, it now puts a smile on my face. sure, it was some hard days, but it fundamentally changed me, put a new level of fearlessness in an already loose aggressive player, and gotten me the courage to get Julia back.
in life, i realized that things come and go sooo fast. before i know it, i will be back in Cali starting my own company. and then a little while later, i'll get married. and maybe my company will go public. i start a charity, and then... soon i will age and pass away. such was my dream. life is not a waiting game, but a game of finding the good and getting the most out of every opportunity. i can never be immortal, although that had always been my highest ambition. but i realized that real immortality is when i can seize the moment and fully embrace myself in that experience, no matter the experience. we r just random creatures traveling though a giant bread of time and space. a very thin slice of time and space...
today is Feb 10th. i am going to go to the Isokinetic Center instead of skipping it. i am going to smile at all the ppl in there who r recovering just like i am. i embrace that Guichet's exercises r long and hard, and i prob will not complete all of it. but i will smile knowing that i have pushed harder today than i did a few days ago, and in a few days i will be doing his rehab program 100%. i am going to come back home and take the best nap of my life, knowing that i gave it all. i will smiling knowing that with each stretch and each turn of the bike wheel, i will retire my hatred for my old self. and that's rlly what this journey is all about. with each click, i repent for being such an ungrateful person. it's like going to prison. it's hard but it's also a glorious experience. today is Feb 10th. today is going to be the best day of my life. Wink
Hi Chris, would you mind posting the cellphone screen capture again cuz it's too small on my monitor. Or just write your conversation with Dr Paley if it's not much trouble. Thanks bro.
Quote from: ChrisIsaak on February 02, 2014, 08:09:36 PM
Now at the time I found this logical and went to Pilates for a while to increase my flexibility. However, when I contacted Dr. Paley about my meeting with Dr. Guichet, this is what he told me. 
Quote from: leechlet on February 09, 2014, 11:20:22 AMust a quick update,
The screw problem on the right is no longer causing pain, or at least not as much. It's still harder to click the right than the left, but no where near as bad as a week and half ago.
Right now, I have bigger problems to worry about. I lost over 10% body weight. It's weird, bc despite getting LLing and gettting Julia back (if u've been following my channel, i started talking to my college sweetheart again, the girl i got LL for), i am depressed and lack energy all the time. This is partially psychological as I ran out of things to live for and need to make new goals, but it's mostly due to the fact that my body has lost a tremendous amount of mass. Dr Guichet said that if this continues, i am at risk for suicide.
I asked for anti depressants, but he said the best thing is to EAT MORE and MOVE MORE. to be honest, i have been skipping trainning a lot to be in bed all day listening to sad music and contemplating my life and sleep. i don't even have any interest in women anymore. i can't even finish one campaign on SC2, something i used to be able to play 14 hrs a day.
Listening to sad music, lost of sexual interest, not playing SC2 anymore. Wow, I'm seeing many elements from my own personal life so I can totally relate to how you feel... except at least you got your girl back. Too bad she can't visit you in your condition.
It's amazing to see the kinds of things Dr. Guichet can put up with. He's definitely a great doctor, if not the best in the world. You're in good hands. Even if you close your eyes at this point and breeze through your 10cm, you will still be fine in the end. So I wouldn't worry.
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