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

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You are almost there!

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Quote from: chasingthedream on July 13, 2021, 09:20:56 AMHi bud, Wow you are going through a lot, aren't you? I'm really sorry you had to deal with this kind of complications. I belive if your journey was smoother, maybe the mental state you're in would have been better. I hope you overcome these obstacles successfully and regain your normal life. By the way, what did Dr. Buldu have to say about these complications?

Hey, yeah definitely the complications made it a lot worse. Especially since I lost few days of lengthening, days are like weeks in my situation. complications can happen to anyone. Even without the complications the femur fixators are killing my mental health from the start. Thanks a lot for your support, Hopefully the fracture doesn’t affect locking nail, if it doesn’t then I will be okay, buldu didn’t really say anything about them except how to solve them
As long as I can remove the fixators and lock the nail, the only loss from the complication would be the extra surgery suffering but it wouldn’t affect me in the long run or in terms of recovery. This is “if”

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Quote from: Stretch on July 13, 2021, 10:02:19 AMYou are almost there!

Thanks bro, it truly does feel like it’s been forever with the suffering and fixators. Time feels like limbo when you have femur fixators. Every day is incredibly slow, and even though I am nearing taking them off soon god-willing, it still feels like forever away

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Another update guys (currently at 6.2 +/- cm mark)
I wasn’t going to update till next week, but I wanted to post about yesterday, I almost got wiped off the planet. I went out with my wife and she was driving, and a speeding minivan ran the light and almost barreled into us. My wife slammed the brakes and we were .1 second away from hitting. It ended up hitting a car on the other lane beside us and spun and hit the curb by us. I thought I was done for. It’s really hard to stay home all the time mentally, but going out is risky because one car accident could ruin you because your legs are already so vulnerable. The car the minivan hit flipped on it’s side. Photo attached

https://imgur.com/gallery/rynY9vY

It truly was a terrifying experience, I had accepted that I was done when it was about to hit us

I am not doing so well physically because of a pinsite infection in my right leg on top and bottom pins. I’m not sure how I got it again, I don’t think it healed fully at top pin first time because it came back after 9-10 of stopping my antibiotics. It took an extra day to get a doctor appt and it was really bad at night, I could feel my foot throb and was very hard to get through the night.
I clean my bandages meticulously. I took stronger antibiotics and felt 40% relief within a day but I could not use my right leg for a few days because the inflammation and pain at the site.
The top had a lot of pain on the muscles in the area but not actual pin. The bottom just felt like the aftereffect of a bee/insect sting constantly on the pin. I could not keep my leg straight from the pain and it resulted in my right leg being 140-150 degrees bent when standing up. My left leg is straight. I got 20* of the ROM back of the right leg from excruciating painful stretching for 1 hr.


I started experiencing some tightness at 5cm mark and i am at the 6cm now and it’s really hitting hard because I have been doing self physio but it was enough to keep me from deterioration until this infection came. My insurance took forever to get me a physical therapist (free) my first day/session is this Tuesday.

Because of these circumstances above I would put more weight in my left leg but would feel some pain (like pressing a bruise) from the fracture area on my left leg after doing it for a few days, and my right leg got weaker from not using during infection even after healed. I took a shower today and stood up for 15 min and was exhausted after. Because ive been staying off my legs that one week made me atrophy muscle a lot. Once you hit 5-6cm it’s a battle to keep whatever remains of your flexibility/muscle. And if you get a pinsite infection there’s no hope at that point to do physio because the inflammation blocks your flexibility.


I forgot to mention in last update, I constantly go up stairs, even by myself. I have someone stand behind me to make sure nothing happens but they don’t assist. I went up 3 flights of apartments stairs today and yesterday. By using my upper body on the handrails, even when they are wide apart or it’s one rail it’s harder but still can by using mainly my upper body. Also the house I live in I am upstairs so I come up and down  3-4x a day. My upper body has got insanely strong from this, not muscle mass but grip/etc.

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that's so scary! glad you're both okay and hope the folks in the minivan are okay too. also congrats on the length you've gained! it seems like its been a rollercoaster of a journey - wishing you well for the remainder of this process. i'm sure once you're all healed months/years from now, you'll be really happy with your outcome, no matter how much length you ultimately get.

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Thank so much, it truly has been a rollercoaster and I still don’t know if I will be okay but I am really praying so, at this point I don’t think as much about the height I gained, you just worry about your recovery because that’s your priority

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Think of the positives bro, it’ll outweigh the NEGS. Also, it seems to me you’re putting yourself at certain risk at times. I understand wanting to get out the house due to boredom but be careful man.
@6+ you’re so close, that should be your motivation, you’re close to been done and having the fixator removed. If it helps set a reminder on your phone that does a countdown for you so every day Siri tells you you’re x amount of days from having it removed. Might sound stupid but helps mentally.

I took my first walk without walker yesterday, felt really good. I can now walk without my walker albeit a rather atrocious gait 😂😂 my shoulders jump and sh8t lol it’s crazy but little things like that scream progress and that’s the the positives I’d say try and pay attention to.

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Quote from: Fiveandsomething on July 19, 2021, 07:22:39 AMThink of the positives bro, it’ll outweigh the NEGS. Also, it seems to me you’re putting yourself at certain risk at times. I understand wanting to get out the house due to boredom but be careful man.
@6+ you’re so close, that should be your motivation, you’re close to been done and having the fixator removed. If it helps set a reminder on your phone that does a countdown for you so every day Siri tells you you’re x amount of days from having it removed. Might sound stupid but helps mentally.

I took my first walk without walker yesterday, felt really good. I can now walk without my walker albeit a rather atrocious gait 😂😂 my shoulders jump and sh8t lol it’s crazy but little things like that scream progress and that’s the the positives I’d say try and pay attention to.

I already have a days countdown lmao, I look at it about every 15-20 minutes
My problem is I’m not 100% sure I will be able to remove the left fixator or if I can I don’t know I can weightbear depending on what the doctor says, but I’m trying to stay positive for sure

Walking without assistance feels good when you can do it, but once you hit the 4cm point+ you can’t because of atophy, or that was my case at least

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Quote from: Activatedxx on July 19, 2021, 07:37:03 AMI already have a days countdown lmao, I look at it about every 15-20 minutes
My problem is I’m not 100% sure I will be able to remove the left fixator or if I can I don’t know I can weightbear depending on what the doctor says, but I’m trying to stay positive for sure

Walking without assistance feels good when you can do it, but once you hit the 4cm point+ you can’t because of atophy, or that was my case at least

Lol i look at mines every other second.

As per not been able to bear weight you’ll be surprised what the body can do. Once the fixator is removed and the nail is locked in, I see no reason why you shouldn’t be able to.

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Quote from: Activatedxx on July 19, 2021, 05:48:20 AMThank so much, it truly has been a rollercoaster and I still don’t know if I will be okay but I am really praying so, at this point I don’t think as much about the height I gained, you just worry about your recovery because that’s your priority

that makes perfect sense. i'm not a doctor of course but i feel pretty confident everything will turn out fine! the complications sound tough and annoying but definitely treatable. the recovery may just take a bit longer, as you've expressed. but you're almost there - rooting for ya!