Quote from: notimportant on March 16, 2017, 10:02:35 PMMost patients are bed-ridden or wheelchair-bounded.
Whera re you? These pics are not the guesthouse. Look at other diaries. You can't find those machines in guesthouse only stationary bike and parallel bars as seen in Bhemias videos.
Notimportant,
Living in the guesthouse, the Mic, is nice, as the gym and pool is part of it and especially as other patients live there. But after 2 months in the Mic I was getting bored. So as soon as I was able to use the walking frame, I started going to my company's office in Barcelona and living in a private appartment. In other words I started leading a "normal" life.
Pictures where taken at the Dir, http://www.dir.cat/en/clubs-dir/dir-gracia which is 40 meters from my office. I go there twice a day for around 40 minutes each.
Not only does it feel like a "normal" life, but it is also cheaper. 1600 euro for Mic vs 600 euro for private apartment plus 65 euro per month for gym.
Limb lengthening with Fitbone
Quote from: 682 on March 16, 2017, 09:22:40 PMhelloworld, how is your strength/endurance in your legs during this time? The level of your PT is impressive.
I am quite happy about muscle strenght. Only thing bothering me is that left leg is lagging behind the right.
However, I am not able to run yet, so it is hard to compare to my pre-LL state.
Today, I measured my thigh circumfrence.
Right: 56 cm
Left: 54 cm
2 months ago:
RIght: 53 cm
Left: 51 cm
Preop: 57 cm
As my femur increased 12% I will need to increase the circumference to 64 cm to stay with the same proportions. However, as even Cristiano CRonnie7 has a thigh circumference of "only" 61 cm, I think I will try to get to 60 cm.
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About my experience with Wittenstein (Fitbone manufacturer) so far:
I am sad, that I am not able to write many positive things so far.
- My Fitbone failed and I got a replacement. ”
- After that happend I met a company rep, who excused himself for the failure and seemed nice. I thus started giving them lots of valuable advice on their sales and marketing as well as building relation to patients (I am a marketer and business consultant).
- However, the company rep did not want to make any statement of how they will compensate me for the additional pain, hospital stay and lost time, but instead said they need to analyze what happened.
- I still have not heard anything about the result of this analysis nor about if and how they company plans to compensate me.
- I wrote the company rep 3 weeks ago about the fact that many patients had their Fitbone lengthen less than 0.03 mm per click and only got the reply that I should talk about my healing process with the doctor!?
- I called several times but the only time I was able to get to the company rep, he said he had no time to talk to me.
- The next time I was able to get through to somebody within Fitbone division, I was told that the person was not aware that a lengthening of less than 0.03 mm was possible and that he does not know of any case, where a preconsolidation had happened.
- On my mail to get urgent advice on how to get my Fitbone to work, I did not get an answer.
- On my mail today asking: 1. “What about the amount of lengthening per click, could that be less than 0.03 mm?” 2. “What about the results of the analysis to determine reason of failure of my Fitbone?” 3. “What to do when Fitbone stops working, due to preconsolidation?” I got the reply again: “We cannot and are not allowed to comment on your healing process, we only make the Fitbone.”
Thus, so far I am not happy with their reaction, but still hope that this is just a miscommunication and that they will soon reply with actual answers, excuse themselves and compensate me. I will keep you updated!
The Fitbone manufacturer has a bad policy. It's evident why you're not happy with them but you've got them by the balls. You could get lots of money from them and Musicmaker would become a millionaire. If you sue them and the doctor and the fake PT as I've told you you will be rich forever. You've got them by the balls.
Quote from: notimportant on March 21, 2017, 05:39:20 PMThe Fitbone manufacturer has a bad policy. It's evident why you're not happy with them but you've got them by the balls. You could get lots of money from them and Musicmaker would become a millionaire. If you sue them and the doctor and the fake PT as I've told you you will be rich forever. You've got them by the balls.
I do not think I can get lots of money from them. And suing the doctor? He has done an excellent job!
What you are right about is that despite the fact that overall everything worked out nicely for me so far, I did incur costs that were caused by the implant failure. This implant failure was not due to the manufacturer's negligence but just due to bad luck. However, as a product manufacturer, at least according to German law, you are responsibe for product failure even if you are not negligent.
The liability of the manufacturer according to German law encompasses:
1. replacement implant
2. payment of the replacement operation and hospital
3. lost work time of patient
4. non-material damages, iE pain
5. consequential damages due to incomplete recovery
ONe month after operation i (with the help of Auron) had made these videos, that show you my work out routine at the MIC residence.
Sorry for the bad audio quality.
Those last videos do not work for me bro
they do work now, sorry 
Perhaps you can't get much money because your Fitbone was replaced in a matter of days and your hospital bills were paid but you can still get money. And what about Musicmaker? She could be a millionaire if she wanted. Her implants failed for no reason and they didn't replace the implants for months! They also wanted to make her pay for external fixator (not American guy) and not new fitbone. Lluser1 explained that according to fellow patients after the fitbone failure in OR she was sent home from hospital in one day because nobody wanted to pay the bills and the poor girl was crying in pain in the guest house for weeks. IMO what they have done with Musicmaker is inhumane. She will suffer physical and emotional sequels for life after so many surgeries and so much work time lost so she could become a millionaire if she sued them all. You both should work together against Fitbone and I would ask you to encourage her to sue too as well as all the people who had problems with the implants and the doctor.
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