Are you in erqu dong or yiqu dong (#2 wing or #1 wing) at the Guangji Hospital in Fengtai District or do they have you in the new hospital somewhere else in Beijing?
My bed was #20 in yiqu dong and my maid was Yangjie from Gansu Province. Send her my regards and tell her that David from Australia (who left there on June 22 this year after first arriving at the end of November last year) has returned to work and is walking OK.
About ten days after the operation they will allow you to stand with the frames attached to your legs and permit you to commence turning the fixator dials which stretch the leg (bone, muscle and tendon) gradually longer over the course of months. I lengthened at 4 turns a day, with two hours between each turn (6am, 8, 10, noon). They changed that to 3 hours after I went past 4cm (6am, 9am, noon, 3pm). There are four dials on each frame and each dial has six numbered positions.
About 3pm each day the maid should offer you 'baojia' ie. foot massage with soaked hot towels, hot as you can bear.
Make sure to get about and practice words from your Chinese phrasebook with patients, visitors, nurses, etc in the other rooms and other wings. The wheelchair will be faster but the walking frame will be better for rehabilitation.
Hawthorn defeated Sydney by a big margin in the AFL Grand Final yesterday.
Long John Silver in the Orient - Dr Xia
Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on September 27, 2014, 10:59:35 PMSounds like fun. You can do the same to them once you start feeling better, just going around from room to room looking around and talking to random people.
From your diary and what others ( like Thegosis) have said this new hospital is a very different place. It is modern and very orderly and clean. There are regular inspections re oh&s and general cleanliness. ronne says in the old hospital the nurses listened more , whatever that means 
We are all in th east wing of the 9th floor and the west wing appears empty. However rooms can fill quickly as in the short time I've been here the two rooms on either side and accross from us have filled up with noisy patients. I'm looking forward to wandering around on my own soon and relaying back to you what I see and hear. In particular I want to meet the girl in room 11.
Quote from: LittleLiam on September 29, 2014, 03:35:55 AMFrom your diary and what others ( like Thegosis) have said this new hospital is a very different place. It is modern and very orderly and clean. There are regular inspections re oh&s and general cleanliness. ronne says in the old hospital the nurses listened more , whatever that means
We are all in th east wing of the 9th floor and the west wing appears empty. However rooms can fill quickly as in the short time I've been here the two rooms on either side and accross from us have filled up with noisy patients. I'm looking forward to wandering around on my own soon and relaying back to you what I see and hear. In particular I want to meet the girl in room 11.
I guess you're getting something for the increased price, then, in the form of improved living conditions. The nurses at the old hospital would talk to you if you wheeled into the nurses' station and struck up a conversation.
"The girl in room 11." 
That reminds me of trying to track down Lemon after meeting her in the hallway. Hope you have fun wandering the hospital and meeting people when you're done being bedridden. Doing that kept my spirits up probably more than anything else during my LL journey.
Does China offer plating as an option?
Quote from: Taller on September 28, 2014, 01:49:22 AMHow are the external femur patients over there doing?
There are two patients during external femurs and they are doing it really tough compared with everyone else. External femurs is very inconvient and it appears to have other issues. The main disadvantages are not being able to lie on your side and showering is a problem because of the difficulty in keeping your pins dry.
Both of these patients are generally, in pain, frustrated, alternating Anger and depression. Both are Chinese one male the other female.
Quote from: AimHigh on October 02, 2014, 01:45:12 PMHi Liam, another boy from down under here 
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Just wondering if femur patients have ring/half ring externals, or telescoping externals - hard to tell from Xia's website.
Xia's website seems also to show LON femurs - but is LATN now the newer method ?.
Thanks
AimHigh
The Chinese guy doing femur lengthening has those telescopic externals on the outside of each thigh. He's going for 5 centimeters and will then consolidate without any rods. Brave guy with incredible determination. He already did 5 on tibias 4 years ago!
Quote from: ShortyMcShort on September 29, 2014, 06:42:45 AMDoes China offer plating as an option?
I don't know but can inquire for you. What is plating? Is it an alternative to rods?
Quote from: LittleLiam on October 04, 2014, 01:09:29 PMI don't know but can inquire for you. What is plating? Is it an alternative to rods?
Yep. So instead of a nail through your knees you get plates which hopefully wont give the potential knee pains
Some info on the topic on the forum :
http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=389.0
http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=1002.0
Tomorrow will be my fourteenth day of lengthening, 7 days of 6 turns and 7 days of 4 or 3 alternating. I must admit that I seem to feel the pain more or am more of a coward than folks here and those of you that have gone ahead of me. Although the pain is not acute I am constantly in pain and the only relief (somewhat less pain and some extra sleep) is when I do only 3 turns , like today. I can't walk yet with the walker and although I use and enjoy the wheelchair, my knees lock up after an hour in the chair and I'm temporarily in agony. I have not had a good nights sleep since I started lengthening and the single pain killer I'm permitted each night just gives me respite for about 4 hours, 9 until 1am. I struggle through each night lying in the dark focused on the pain and trying to move a little to relieve it. I have cried quietly a few nights.
Tomorrow I will get my first x-ray since the operation. Due to the Chinese national holiday my x-rays were postponed.
My room mate claims he did not experience pain ( that stopped him from sleeping) while doing 4 turns and only now gets pain since is went past 4 centre meters and that is due to skin stretching around pin sites.
Very interested in your views on my pain and whether I am just a wimp compared with you folks 
I hadnt appreciated how difficult it is to get painkillers in china as you have to have a doctors prescription, apparently.
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