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Whimsical
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Posted on Dec 12, 2016, 4:32 pm
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If the nail has failed the Company must offer a new one free of charge of course.
My advice: all patients affected by malfunction of implants should prepare a class action lawsuit to be compensated. In America you can get large amounts of money, sometimes millions of dollars. Some cases in this forum are bad enough for that. If a woman burnt by coffee gets that amount, that American guy and Musicmaker would get millions and millions. They would become very rich.
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helloworld
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Posted on Dec 12, 2016, 5:47 pm
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Let's keep our heads cool! At least I do not want to try to get anything unreasonable from anybody. To some extend we as patient do assume certain risks.
Also, three points:
1. Dr. Monegal explained very convincingly to me why he is using Fitbone and not Precise, even though Precise, would pay him a nice commission. He knows that Fitbone is better for the patients.
2. I have talked to many patients of Monegal (about Limb lengthening with Fitbone and they are all very happy. Musimaker is an exception but even she does not put the fault on the doctor.
3. I do think Wittenstein, the maker of Fitbone is very precise in their engineering and have not been negligent in any of the cases where fitbone failed, which according to them is only 0.3%.
I am in continuous discussion with them about my case and will let you know more about how these discussions go.
Stay tuned :-)
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helloworld
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Posted on Dec 12, 2016, 7:34 pm
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To notimportant:
I also went to a consultation of Dr. Monegal and I also met patients that just came buy or that he connected to me.
However, he DID mention that there was the case of Musicmaker and that there were complications.
I then went on my own, without letting anyone know to Mic residence to talk to patients myself.
THere were two patients that, I talked to one guy who was very happy with the procedure. And then I was offered to meet a girl that apparently had, had complications, which I now know is "musicmaker".
As I had already met many patients and as I did not want to be scared of any complications, I declined the offer to meet her.

So it seems to me know after talking to musicmaker that "yes" things went wrong, but Dr. Monegal did not try to hide that case and I know that Dr. Monegal and her are actually now good friends.
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Posted on Dec 12, 2016, 8:38 pm
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I am still confused, Musicmaker case was due to doctor or other factors. The comp.ications he had were due to bad surgery or the body of the patient itself?
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Posted on Dec 12, 2016, 10:33 pm
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Quote from: onemorefoot on December 12, 2016, 08:38:41 PMI am still confused, Musicmaker case was due to doctor or other factors. The comp.ications he had were due to bad surgery or the body of the patient itself?
She was unlucky. What happened to her could have happened to anyone and the doctor is not at fault. But it really saddens me that people keep bringing her name up to only talk about complications.

Anyways and besides all the setbacks she went through, she managed to stay more active than most LLers and is headed in the right direction. I take my hat off to her.
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Posted on Dec 13, 2016, 12:43 am
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I give my congratulations to her, too, just was a doubt I had becuase people say different things and I dont know who is telling the truth and who is lying.
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applesandoranges
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Posted on Dec 16, 2016, 4:28 am
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in retrospect would you have done it with precice?
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JP
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Posted on Dec 16, 2016, 5:45 am
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Besides being friendly outside the hospital did Dr. Mongal fix your leg problems? ... how much more did you pay your complication?

Quote from: musicmaker on December 16, 2016, 02:36:19 AMThanks, Auron and Onemorefoot. It's true I try to keep as much active as I can in order to avoid sadness, but feeling bad and even devastated is sometimes unavoidable.

I don't want to talk about my case because information is being constantly manipulated by some trolls here to do harm to people I appreciate a lot. Yes, I DO care about my doctor and I don't want his name to be bashed because he's a good friend of mine and I firmly believe he is a highly skilled surgeon. That's why this forum makes me feel sad.

However, I'm still here because I need the support of some of you, guys and girls. Please, put yourself in my place and be good to me. I'm in a very difficult situation. Don't send me anonymous hate emails and don't try to hack my accounts because this scares me a lot. Please, I need you to be there to support me, as much as I have supported some of you in the past. Don't let me down.
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hype88
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Posted on Dec 16, 2016, 6:09 am
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Hey mate,

Thanks for posting your diary it's very inspirational!

Like yourself I've been thinking of doing this for sometime now. But I think I've come to the point where I just need to get it done to move on with my life. I've also been thinking of lengthening two segments 5cm with Dr Monegal. My only real concern is recovery time and being away from my business. However I did read that you've managed to keep working through, which give me hope that I might be able to do the same thing.

I'm roughly 172 and my aim it to get close as possibly to 183cm without losing athletic ability/ I've attached a photo to give show you my body proportion!
http://imgur.com/a/ogh3M
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IwannaBeTaller
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Posted on Dec 16, 2016, 10:58 am
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Quote from: hype88 on December 16, 2016, 06:09:50 AMI'm roughly 172 and my aim it to get close as possibly to 183cm without losing athletic ability

Forget it.
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