I'm afraid of many things right now. Feel like I have to play my own doctor to a certain extent. Yes, I hope by the grace of the unforgiving and cruel gods that everything lines up and comes out right, but may that be naive? We'll see how straight it looks after my CT. If it's bent significantly I'll try to correct it myself by turning the outer rods more and retracting the inner rod. This is what I've been told should be done by other various sources.
Sringari saying a nail cannot allow an x-leg formation to occur has been contradicted by 3 other doctors I've enquired with now.... Dr. Barinov, Dr. Birkholtz and Dr Chaudhary all say that deviation and malalignment must be actively monitored by the surgeon during LON. Sringari tried making the assertion that deviation about the nail was an impossible notion. Just want to get out of here and back home to assess the damage done.
LON with the boys at Dr Sringari--India (Complete)
You're doing everything correctly at this moment. Access the situation and try your best to minimize the complication as much as possible. That doesn't mean that your tibias are misaligned. I find they look alright from the frontal view. But taking precaution is always the correct step.
I don't really believe in any god. I stop praying when I was 17 when I wished to become 1inch taller and look more handsome. Both wishes were never fulfilled.
Feeling fear is a good thing. It confirms that you are still alive. Believe it or not, if you own any nike garment at this moment, Nike the god of war is currently with you. You may be putting them on right now or they may be tucked away underneath your bed or stored in your suitcase. I think the best way to die is to die fighting in the battlefield where you have the chance to grip for your last breath. But if you make it out of this procedure alive and come back home, you will forever be changed.
Look forward to your CT scan. But whatever happens, Nike the god of war is with you.
Could you use MS Paint to mark where you think the deviation is? That photograph looks fine to me.
I received benedictions from the ancient gods at a young age, and I supplicate to Jupiter as if it were a second nature. The old guys lay dormant beneath the crust of the earth, and their omniscience is present through the celestial sphere. I don't pray to false gods, and I don't pray for joy. I pray in fear of committing hubris. Perhaps a sacrifice is in order to appease their will.
Got the CT scan done today. Measurements were 4.3cm in the left and 4.7cm in the right, so it's good I took it as it shows the x-rays were 5mm inaccurate. Bones appear straight. Will post ASAP.
CT Scans:
I've hit a tremendous setback. Since Saturday, whenever my left foot is pulled upward even slightly, there is a severe and painful sharp shooting sensation originating in the small toe and travelling all the way down the foot and up the back of the leg. I can still move all the toes (bar the big one). I was hoping to get to 5.5cm, but it looks like now I might not even reach 5cm. I haven't turned since Saturday. I'm hoping I'm around 5cm now, but my left leg was already a few mm behind my right, so I might need to turn the right back. We'll see what the doc says....
Been reading more on nerves and it seems the nerve that functions as the sensory nerve in the fifth toe is an absolute cutaneous nerve, meaning it serves no motor function. The sural nerve is apparently removed quite often for biopsy. I don't know if this means I should ignore the shocks and continue turning or if I should keep waiting. Haven't turned since Saturday and haven't gotten the opportunity to consult the doctor about it either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sural_nerve
Regardless, this being the foot with the disabled first toe, I'm certain something is amiss with the nerves on the whole in this leg. Just hope everything fleshes out in the end.
Quote from: Polycrates. on March 04, 2014, 10:10:10 AMHe can make the argument that he tried to help me, but what he really did was con me. I could very well be in Serbia with Dr. Mitkovic or one of the other doctors who have been revealed by this forum that would have fit well within my budget. Instead of leaving the Sarin disaster behind and counting the site's losses, he went out of his way to find the next willing surgeon to participate in his scheme. Unfortunately for me, I didn't establish a solid presence on this site until too late. My surgeon is by no means a quack, but he is clearly inexperienced/rusty in Ilizarov. I just hope I come out okay, but if not I should be able to receive care back home. Some patients here, due to their nationalities, may not be as fortunate...
Yeah, had we know about this site, I would have gone to Russia because I was cheap at that time. But seeing the seriousness of the complication and the down-time at the result of these complications, I should have pay more and have gone to a more qualified doctor.
Help at home is available. However, they will only operate on you if your complication is a serious threat to your current well-being, like a bone non-union. Otherwise, you will have to wait for several years until you fully recover before they will operate on you again, for such hassles, like x-leg, numbness, nerves, and other issues. This is what my friend in Edmonton told me.
I was supposed to see my doc back in January but due to the long wait list, I won't be able to see him until the 17th of this month. I pray that he will fix my complication (1cm discrepancy and x-leg); otherwise, it will be a blow to my future plan. Like Germany, they may turn around and say my discrepancy is not enough to affect my well-being or give other kind of excuses to not fix it. But we'll see on the 17th.
Well, whatever that con-artist said, he was certainly not happy at Sarin for not accepting his deals. For all the idiots like us who were lured to his advertising scheme, he made some commissions... maybe not a sizeable amount of money but probably enough that he won't need a full-time job, could spend all his time on his website, and spend all the time at the gym to fix his freakiest proportion... not to mention, learn a little photo-shopping skill here and there which might be useful, like for lengthening his arms in his photo. We're lucky that our doctors were not all-quack (mine was borderline) but had we been disabled for life, I don't think that man would really care. As you can see his comments regarding Dr. Franz, his logic is twisted and he is manipulative.
I think what he meant was be careful with any present or forthcoming old forum diaries. That's the problem with the site owner who has conflict of interest; there's always suspicion somewhere.
I think the present Precice 2 old forum diaries by Dr Paley, Dr Donghoon Lee and Dr M are real. I could be wrong though but unlikely.
Quote from: smitty on March 07, 2014, 02:18:32 PMAre you saying Precice2 diaries in old forum are fake???
The irony that he can accuse others of specious employment because they spend too much time on a forum is especially humorous. There's never a moment in time where you'll not see either Sysop, Apotheosis, or one of the many other potential alter-egos active on the site. I'm well-conditioned to having something occur before me, and then having someone immediately tell me to my face that it never occurred, after having spent four months in India.
A liar is a liar, but I'd think you'd want to exercise some cunning and deception in your art, not just try to piss on someone's leg and call it rain day after day. Needless to say, my mind is now thoroughly boggled. What is truth, what is fiction? What is based in reality, and what is not? Am I still in mortal existence or have I experienced my "Apotheosis" to the realms of the gods? These are the profound questions I ask myself at every moment now. If I were told otherwise, I'd believe it with fierce conviction by now.
It looks like he paranoically monitors this forum that he knows a doctor regularly posts here. But he's wrong, Dr B only visits this site at night (local time) which is the time after his clinic hours.
Quote from: Polycrates. on March 07, 2014, 04:39:21 PMThe irony that he can accuse others of specious employment because they spend too much time on a forum is especially humorous.
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