LON Femur 7.5cm with halil buldu may 13th, 2021 God-Willing

hi man, I'm really thinking go to Istanbul to Buldu because is the price i can afford. Can i PM you for some questions. Did you contact direct to dr Buldu and was he your surgeon? Is he checking on your progress day bay day, or you are by your own trying to understand if you have pin infection o not ?

Quote from: moretallpls on May 28, 2021, 03:32:44 PMhi man, I'm really thinking go to Istanbul to Buldu because is the price i can afford. Can i PM you for some questions. Did you contact direct to dr Buldu and was he your surgeon? Is he checking on your progress day bay day, or you are by your own trying to understand if you have pin infection o not ?

I don’t have a pin infection, after I cleaned up and put bandages on they have been completely dry and normal. Don’t do femurs. Coming from someone that had them done.
Do tibias, it’ll be only 1/2 as hard

Doctor seems to always be on WhatsApp 24-7 which is cool, I don’t think the man sleeps

I Had a 45 minute drive to Airbnb. Made it somehow. Wasn’t too bad but It got uncomfortable towards the middle and end. Route was very scenic and beautiful. Taxi driver texted and drived a lot of the way, if we crash it’ll ruin everything, the taxi drivers went from good at first to bad seemingly. Left knee pain is my biggest complaint at the moment. Made it to the Airbnb. I definitely recommend over the hotel, it has so much more space and you just feel like you’re not in a cage. That is what the hotel rooms felt like, even if they’re nice that extra space is great mentally. nice Airbnb but I screwed myself because it’s not wheelchair accessible. Doesn’t have an elevator ground floor. only one floor up to the apartment, but the stairs have no handrails just walls on both sides and the steps are not small, they are 12’ each which was difficult getting up with help of my wife.

https://imgur.com/gallery/zleWepg

Also shows sweatpants that cover fixators^

Update* Going down was bad because I injured myself. It was bound to happen. There is a 15 inch single step outside the elevator, I ended up trying to get down with my wife’s help and lost my balance on right leg and put all my weight on my left leg for a good 15 seconds while it was bending. Surprisingly it didn’t hurt too much initially, maybe because of the fear idk. After that i had my wife literally wheelbarrow me down the stairs. She helped me lay flat on the ground, picked up my feet, and I used my hands to get down the stairs, by the last step my arms were giving out. Kind of disappointed in myself, I used to be a state placing wrestler 6 years ago, now I just feel like a sack of potatoes.

https://imgur.com/gallery/oweCQ7U

 We went out But 2 hours later the pain sunk in and my leg felt like it was hit with a hammer. At first it was a bad throbbing pain, enough to make me call a taxi and go home, but then it kept getting worse. By the time I got out the taxi I was screaming inside. It was a constant 9/10 pain that lasted hours, I even started crying at one point. Outside the apartment entrance, two men saw my distress and came and picked me up from the shoulders and carried me to the room. God bless them, Turkish people are so kind. I haven’t cried in years since a funeral.

It’s no fault but mine
I really wanted to stay in but I felt bad for my wife, she never says it but I can tell she really wanted to go out and was extremely bored. After getting home I took pain meds but the pain didn’t subside right away. It’s been about 4 1/2 hours now and it’s still a constant 2.5/10. I took the pain medicine dolorex and novalgin but it helped only somewhat. The doctor prescribed me Xanax but I can only pick it up Monday. So my wife to a taxi to another patient and picked some up for me, what a lifesaver

I’m an idiot for refusing the prescription at first, Everyone got Xanax and Oxys except me. The doctor asked me the day of my discharge if I wanted anything to help with sleep, and in my head I thought he was going to prescribe me something stupid like NyQuil so I said it’s okay. Little did I know that was the stupidest decision only second to getting monorail femurs I’ve made this trip.

I would post them but imgur takes it down, they are brand name Xanax by Pfizer, just took one, bless your heart zhe


Edit* I asked doctor if nail could have bent or my bone could be affected, since it hurts a lot near the break site. He said it’s fine and it should be just pain, because the monorail system is strong enough to withhold all my weight even on one leg, I trust him but I really hope he’s 100% right
Weekend curfew will force me to stay indoors anyways. Bone clicking way more prominent in left leg only now. I will be resting and staying in for a little while. Some advice, if you do LL anywhere make sure your apartment/hotel whatever is wheelchair friendly

I didn’t even think twice about it because in America everything’s wheelchair friendly, definitely not over here, a lot of sideways don’t even have ramps and the ones that do, stupid d*k heads park in front of them since there are no parking lots here. Most of me is to blame for injuring myself but if there was a freaking handrail or anything in place I would be fine, I mean who the F builds stairs and steps without a handrail?

We got you homie, you're the real MVP for taking the pain head-on!

allah yusallmak

Quote from: Dark on May 29, 2021, 08:03:15 PMallah yusallmak

Thank you so much bro

Update on my pain, my left leg could not bear weight without pain so I stayed off my feet but I had to urinate so I would go to the bathroom with my walker and had to put most of my weight on my right leg since my left was painful. Stupid idea, I started having same type of pain but less intense in my right leg. Currently I’ve been in bed all day and the pain has went away since the doctors assistant brought me tramadol a couple hours ago, the painkillers I had were not enough for the type of pain I was experiencing. The Xanax I took made me fall asleep but I woke up with pain few hours later. It has been a lot of constant pain , from moderate to intense, extremely upset at the Airbnb for having such a idiotic construction. Currently I’m fine, just laying in bed and will be for the next coming days. Did physical therapy in bed today and it did worsen the pain I believe. Doctor is saying it is fine, just pain. Will have an X-ray in next few days to make sure. I urinate in a bottle now, I will be staying in bed to be safe from now on, pain has subsided for now but I want to let my body heal so it doesn’t come back so no more walking or even standing until maybe monday

Update: I had to make a bowel movement earlier so I got up with my walker, walking to the bathroom was painful when I put weight on my left heel, but if on my left tippy toe I didn’t feel pain, while walking something popped, a cringe cartilage feeling, it was painful but after that I stopped feeling pain when standing on my heel. After having a bowel movement I still felt okay so I took advantage and took a shower, then changed my bandages afterwards.  My left leg is still painful by the inside fold when turning or certain angles, however I feel much better leg wise. I wasn’t able to even walk with a walker the prior days. Currently I’m having problems with my lower back from laying day mostly all day this weekend, I have a herniated disk l4 & l5 from a car accident when a drunk driver hit me and it’s irritated. One does not get a break with this surgery. It’s a cycle, last week I was walking unaided, a couple days ago I was back to square one. I’m anxious to take my X-rays in a couple days to make sure everything is okay

Quote from: Activatedxx on May 14, 2021, 02:39:06 AMSorry for the late update guys. I went through surgery around 2 and woke up at 6:45 in pretty bad pain. Kept half sleeping on and off until 1-2am due to the pain and discomfort. I can understand now when another person that did cll said it feels like getting hit by a car. I was under the impression I would be under an epidural and anesthesia but I think it is just anesthesia I don’t feel anything around my lower back and my legs have feeling.
My right leg hurt way more than my left leg for some reason, but both hurt pretty bad. This is not an easy surgery, mentally it is terrifying
The whole day seems to take forever yesterday. It is mental torture to yourself. I kept cursing myself why am I doing this, I should have just been happy with my height. When they take you to the operation room and you have 7-8 doctors around you and you know your about to have your legs broken you mind screams for you to stop. Physically it was nowhere as bad mentally, and that is not to say it wasn’t bad physically, it’s bad pain physically but way more mentally for me.

https://imgur.com/gallery/tBSJPqm

This is a picture of my fixator ^
I woke up with a catheter inside and a little blood around my penis. The nurses would not let me eat until 11 but because they were giving me pain medicine I started throwing up liquid

Yes!  People seem to forget the pain and discomfort a person goes thru with these surgeries.  If you are older like me I do not recommend.  The body does not respond as well and mentally it is a challenge to get thru this.  You muse have a companion for help, shopping, etc .  I had no help initially and quite frankly had some breakdowns bc a person does not have a clue how difficult the entire process is.....think hard and talk to a couple patients of the docs you want to see!

hope you get better man, we all be waiting your x rays are good. Cant you change to other airbnb or place with elevator or no stairs ?