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

Quote from: PerfectBody on May 17, 2021, 08:16:04 AMI don’t know how I’m going to survive this man. Your wife was right, this is insanity. I thought it would be ok but once anesthesia wore off it was beyond my wildest nightmare.
But you survived, so hopefully I will too. Are you able to bend your knee on your own, or lift your leg? I don’t even know which muscle I need to control to do that. I’m worried that moving my leg will just bring back intense pain.

Congrats! It’s only 1-2 hours after your original plans, at least it’s not midnight 🙂 do you still think you will do 7.5cm?

You really should have brought someone, it makes it so much easier mentally. I couldn’t imagine doing it without a spouse/family member. I’m able to do all those things, but it wasn’t easy the first 2-3 days. It gets better day by day. The guy just changed my bandages. He said he’s coming to your room next. I had another bowel movement, my 4th one since yesterday noon. I plan on doing that if my body allows me, hopefully. Keep in mind your legs are super swollen so you can’t use some muscles or to a certain degree. As the swelling wears off, my physical therapist said you regain some control of them. I’m praying for your recovery, I think you’ll be just fine after the first week


Update* I was able to walk some steps without the walker, however it looks like a penguin walk. But I guess it’s something

Penguin walk! Hell yeah man, that’s awesome!! My pain wore off and I had the guys come and help me walk a little. I guess they just left your room. Bending my knee is not happening yet but I can walk a lot more comfortably than yesterday. A lot of knee pain if they don’t move my legs correctly. My legs are also stupendously swollen. Not sure what I did for that to happen.
Yeah I never knew how direly I needed somebody by my side throughout this event. I thought it was something i could sneak out and do discretely over a two months. No fking way. I needed everybody here.
Day by day you seem to be getting way healthier. I’m so happy to hear you’re doing well. This gave me a lot of hope. Only two more days of hell for me and hopefully I’ll be able to walk a little too.

Quote from: PerfectBody on May 17, 2021, 09:22:53 AMPenguin walk! Hell yeah man, that’s awesome!! My pain wore off and I had the guys come and help me walk a little. I guess they just left your room. Bending my knee is not happening yet but I can walk a lot more comfortably than yesterday. A lot of knee pain if they don’t move my legs correctly. My legs are also stupendously swollen. Not sure what I did for that to happen.
Yeah I never knew how direly I needed somebody by my side throughout this event. I thought it was something i could sneak out and do discretely over a two months. No fking way. I needed everybody here.
Day by day you seem to be getting way healthier. I’m so happy to hear you’re doing well. This gave me a lot of hope. Only two more days of hell for me and hopefully I’ll be able to walk a little too.

That weird, everybody reacts different but I was able to bend my knee significantly shortly after waking up from surgery.  It did get better in the coming days, first week in s definitely hardest. Mentally it sets you up to be able to handle almost anything after that I think.

Edit* another freaking bowel movement, this is ridiculous

https://imgur.com/gallery/WCeZuur

Here’s a walking video. I can walk faster but I’m focusing on form. My physical therapist told me to make sure every step you put your heel down first, so I don’t develop ballerina

Had my personal walker delivered to my room. Paid about 30 bucks and happy to call it mine because the nurses only give me that one when I need it

Bend those knees a little more that’s awesome. I can only step forward tippy toe right now. It’s pretty hard but you make it look easy!

Yeah when I walk I have to work on my posture and knee bending so I don’t develop a bad habit or a bad gait, my first times walking I was tippy toeing also, I hope after my swelling is gone my gait will be better

https://imgur.com/gallery/YblYihL
I am packing to leave, I made makeshift pants out of my old jeans , they are revealing of the sides of my thighs but cover my privates. I am genuinely smiling for the first time since coming in this hospital, because I am leaving. But I have a very long and uncertain way ahead of me.
Please pray for my recovery

Leaving the hospital felt like leaving jail. Mentally it was amazing just to see daylight. I was loaded in nice Mercedes van with a wheelchair. The wheelchair barely fit with the frames and I had to sit in an awkward position which caused small pain but i thugged it out. I was just happy to be leaving, the bumps on the trip also caused 2 or 3/10 pain, but I didn’t even care. When I got to the hotel it was decent. Not 5 stars as advertised but a solid 3.5. Again, I didn’t care. I plopped on the bed as carefully as I could. After drinking water only for a week, I cracked a Red Bull and it tasted like crack, and enjoyed the view outside my window. I had a long way ahead. I had only ate breakfast at the hospital and was very hungry I was no longer the hospitals responsibility to feed and take care of, will probably use food delivery app to get food now, will probably stay up all night from red Bull.I needed a wheelchair big enough to hold the fixator to be able to go out in public, the wheelchair the hotel let me borrow doesn’t fit my frames touch the wheel. I needed to go to pharmacy and get my pain meds and prescriptions, to be able to sleep because of the annoying non painful aches in my legs at night. I needed to get Turkish lira out of an atm as I used the amount I had. I needed pads for my wife that just started her time of the month. Not to mention everything is closing soon. I needed a ton of $ h 1 t that I probably won’t get until tomorrow. But I didn’t even care, I was just enjoying the moment. Truly we are ungrateful. This is a life altering experience for me. I don’t think I’ll ever be ungrateful again. I have a lot going on right now, but whatever it is it could be worse, I could still be in the hospital. It’s the little things that are so so precious


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Edit* my parade was shortlived in a way. I had to go to the restroom and the toilet was too close to the wall to allow my frames to sit and use the bidet. I ended up going standing up, which in turn splashed water on my legs from this toilet (different from hospital one which didn’t) and got my pants wet. I spent about 30 minutes cleaning myself. My legs are done for the day. I spent about 80% of my energy and time standing up on the restroom.

It’s really P* ing me off like crazy. I don’t know if it’s the medicine, or the hospital food, or anesthesia or what. Every time I go it’s barely solid. And takes forever to clean. But I’ve had 7 bowel movements in the last 31 hours. And I still have to go again. After I finished and layed down, I got that warm irritated feeling in my stomach. I’m still happy to be out the hospital, but besides the pain mental and physical, and being in the hospital  I think pooping is the next worse thing since I had my surgery

Quote from: Confucius“A healthy man wants a thousand things, a sick man only wants one.”

Quote from: Serilium on May 17, 2021, 04:42:06 PM

Dude I can relate to this 1000% right now


Quick update, my wife was able to call a taxi and pay with my debit card to get her feminine stuff. However when she tried to get food it had locked due to fraud and sent a approve/deny text to my USA number which I don’t have. Eventually I was able to order papa Johns to the hotel and just have my wife pay the hotel clerk ten bucks and he paid the guy in lira for me. Felt great to eat after 12 hours of an empty stomach, but then 30 minutes later I have to use the restroom. My legs are done for the day. I don’t care if I soil the bed , I am not getting up they are overused plus I have not taken medicine for about 24 hours so I am definitely feeling them, any movement causes 3-5 out of 10 pain. I need to let them rest. Still haven’t got my meds. Trying to find a pharmacy that is 24 hours but I don’t think they will let my wife pick up meds for me. I physically cannot go without a wheelchair, I definitely taxed my legs today. Will try to go in morning. Definitely need some medicine to make me stop having to go restroom. It is my biggest complaint now

Sweet, sweet freedom 🥳 congrats man