nope none at all.
had consultation with dr mitkovic, he did a basic measurment of tibia and femur, apparently i have
tib 33cm
femur 43cm
i was really surprised actually, since i have short legs, but we will get a proper scan tomorow.
he said his recomendation is 4cm, but you can do 5cm, he said 80% of patiens can do 5 safely, and 20% should stop at 4cm, he basically implied to not go over 5cm, i was a little dissapointed by this but my safety is paramount.
He said if you get misalignment say at 4.5cm due to soft tissue you must stop at 4.5cm, for discretesuser it was different, he got misalignment due to pre consolidation, so he could continue lengthening.
so we agreed to be positive and aim for 5cm, at least my proportions will be great both in wingspan and tib/femur ratio, but i may end up 169 post op.
the important thing is my health first, then accepting my height and move on with this issue i have, rather than trying to obtain some sort of good height like 173 or whatever from LL.
he says for consolidatoin i can get x ray every 8 weeks in the UK, that will maek thing much easier for me, he is happy to write an official letter in english for the UK.
he said cleaning pin sites is easy job to do yourself.
interestingly enough he never measured my height or anything, i guess it's immaterial to LL as your starting height has nothing to do with the process.
a words up on mitkovic and the hospital manager, pretty sure these guys are 5 8.5, so you may be taller than them if you meet that at 5 10, actually youd be even taller given the male average in serbia is higher than UK, just be prepared.
for pain level he said 90% of patiens don't use painkillers after surgery, don't know if that's good or not.
in case your wondering why mitkovic did one leg at a time for discreteuser that was because he was develeping a cold so he had to stop after the first leg, its not he was trying some new better way to do it.
upon removal of device at home, he said first you remove device and keep pins in , then walk for 1 week, then you remove pins then send device back, he said there is pain when you remove pin.
while lengthening you turn 4 surfaces a day, example
8 am
10am
12am
2pm
then nothing until next day, each surface is 0.15mm, so that's a total for 0.66
all taxis use dinars here, so you exchange euros for dinars in a local shop away from hotel, the shop says on it manjacima, i would suggest doing this before operation so you can pay all taxi fares for 3 month period.
also the x ray gets done once a month while lenthening, i thought it was weekly, price on that may be about 100 euro a time, but it will be in dinars.
i am to bring passport tomorow morning at 8:30 for my blood test/ phyc test and proper x ray scan, they need id for myself, my hotel has kinda taken my passport as is, my last meal is to be 7pm tonight due to the blood test.
he said during lengthenig beer is aloud, but only 1 per day.
overall i am happy i went with mitkovic rather than barinov, although with barinov using ilazarov i know you can do 6.5cm, maybe with mitkovic i can only do 4.5.cm but it's unknown, i prefer light weight bar and removal of device at home.
i would alway binrg notebook and pen with you to these meetings, very helpful.
taxi to hospital is 200 dinars so you will need that, for retun that is 400 dinars. so x that by 12 to 4800 to get back and forth weekly for cleaning of pin sites.
for x ray it is done elsewhere, i don't know where, but mitkovic will tell me, maybe it's not far, i don't know, that will cost taxi money as well, you go on your own but mitkovic will sms you the details to tell them what you need.
i think hotel accepts euros and dinars for staying.
you stay in the hospital for 6 days, maybe the hotel can keep some of your stuff in the room without you paying the rent, i don't know.
Did everything go according to plan when you arrived there? No issues with the pickup or getting to the hotel?
