I answered your questions here so we wouldn't be hijacking Classical's diary.
http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=99.msg12979#msg12979
Hey Medium and Slim, no problem at all! Feel free to discuss anything related to LL in my dairy, you are more than welcome 
Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on July 15, 2014, 12:52:01 AMAre you doing lots of weightbearing? That's the natural way to stimulate callus formation.
Thank you Medium for the excellent suggestion! To be honest, I have been a bit of those lazy example and didn't weight bearing much. Whenever I stand, my tibia would get purple, and I feel a million needles poking me legs, very painful. However, as you and Dr Lee both have suggested, I am going to suck it up, and weight bearing as much as possible now. In fact, I just stood six times, 4 mins each time yesterday. That's 24 mins in total, a huge improvement compare to my usual 6 mins per day, haha.
Quote from: paco1 on July 15, 2014, 07:04:19 AMHi classical, congratulations.
what is your lengthening goal?
Then you are in a hotel with your mother, near the hotel.
You have to pay the price for removal nail now or when the removal nail is made.
I am in doubt between doctor salameh and donghoolee.
cheers, paco
Peco, I am renting an apartment near the hospital. It's a lot cheaper to rent apartment than stay in the hotel. I am not paying for the nail removal now. According to Dr Lee, the nail removal will be two years after I leave this time. I have never met Dr Salameh, while I believe he is excellent, I am in no place to make any comments. However, with Dr Lee, I have experienced everything first hand. After seeing what he has done for me and for many of his other patients, I can confidently say that you will be worrying free if you choose to go with Dr Lee. So far, of the 10 patients that I met and spoke to, nobody has had even slight complication, and in average, his patients go back to normal life a lot faster than the average time frame I read from other doctor. I know there were two incidents earlier with the Precise2 nail not lengthening. However, that was the nail malfunction, not his fault. The two patients wrote in their dairies that they were upset and disappointed at the result,however, they think Dr Lee is a world first class surgeon, on par with Dr Paley, Betz, and Guichet. That, I cannot agree with them more.
Quote from: Hallijah on July 15, 2014, 11:05:48 AMHow old are u?
I just turned 36. Haha, definitely senior citizen here 
Quote from: ShortyMcShort on July 15, 2014, 02:58:03 PMHow long do you intend on staying in South Korea for?
I did my surgery on May 26th. I am intending to leave on Sep 20th. I told Dr Lee that by the time I leave, I have to be able to use a crutch and walk, so that I can get on and off the plane, also use the bathroom. He estimated to remove my fixture around last week of Aug or first week of Sep. he is usually very conservative and careful with what he says. I trust this estimation.
Yesterday, I had an emergency visit to Dr Lee. I had an allergic reaction to the surgical glue that was used to close my incision sites. Lots of red bumps and blisters started spreading out from the incisions, it was extremely itchy. This all happened duing the weekends, and there was no pharmacy that's open. I swear if I had to wait for one more day, I would have scratched my skin bloody! Dr Lee said it's Contact Dermatitis. He prescribed me oral Antihistamin and hydrocortisone lotion. It has only been two days, the itchiness is already much better, and the rash seems a bit drier.
The second unfortunate thing: contrast to ballerina foot, my right foot is stuck in the 90 degree position, and unable to relax anymore. I have been reading all the horror stories on dairies about ballerina foot. Sweden being as determined and strong as he is, was struggling and got depressed for more than a year from ballerina foot. Everybody is stressing on the importance of wearing the foot holding shoes 24/7 to prevent ballerina foot. Of course, my eyes lit up when Dr Lee handed me a pair of those right after my surgery, and naturally I followed his instruction to the millimeter. I might be behind in everything else, but I was sure proud of my ability to wear those shoes. I was wearing them to sleep, to the bathroom, to do excercises... these shoes became a part of my disabled body. Until one day, I realized I can no longer take one of them off. As soon as I took the shoe off, this tendon close to my big toe starts to get extremely painful. I can no longer relax my foot, let along bend it the other way. The only position that doesn't hurt is when it's 90 degree from my tebia. When I explained this to Dr Lee, and begged for a shot of steroids, Dr Lee explained that my tendon is not inflamed, therefore the steroids won't help. Basically if one doesn't wear foot holding shoes, they will get ballerina foot, however, people like me that wear them all the time, our tendon will sometimes reset itself to the positions of the shoes, therefore can no longer go without it. He assured me it will resolve by itself later. I don't know how it will, but I am sure in a lot of pain right now, and am very worried for my LL future.
Unfortunate that you've had both those issues at once. Thankfully the itchiness is going away. As for the sandal straps, every so often I'll take off the straps, hold on to both of them, and move my foot up and down for a bit before reattaching them. The physios here said to also lie on my back and stretch my feet down and up for ten seconds each direction for sets of ten. They said to do that every four hours. So far I haven't had any problems and I think it's because of those exercises. Then again maybe it's because I'm not as far along in distraction. Hope your issue resolves itself, regardless.
classical, yes, i was aware of this'
basically, for most of us, there's no getting around some kind of complication.... you don't wear shoes, ballerina... you wear shoes, you can get other issues..... there is no foolproof way to do this... but both issues seem to resolve themselves.... i'm sure even in the worst case scenario, there's a minor surgery to fix your issue, just as there is with ballerina
lengthening is hard
That's scary about not being able to move your foot. How much have you lengthened by now? Have you tried not wearing the sandals for a period of time (say a few days) and seeing if the issue resolves itself?
Thank Kilo, Crimson and Medium for your kind suggestion and genuine concern! The great thing about this forum is that I get such amazing spiritual support from people that are knowledgable about LL, and sincerely care about everybody that is going through this hard process.
Good news! I went to Dr Lee for an emergency visit as my ankle was getting worse. After I showed Dr Lee my right ankle and foot he got so worried, and said if my situation continue to get worse, I would have to stop lengthening. He checked my foot, and pressed my leg muscle. When he was pressing this one section of the muscle that resides close to my right knee, I yelled out a loud "ouch". Apparently this muscle and tendon that hurts my foot and big toe is one big connected tissue. My muscle was very inflamed which pulled up the end tendon, and caused the immobility and extreme pain around my ankle and foot. He than injected me a dose of cortisone, and Tada!I was immediately able to take off the shoe and relax my foot, the pain is gone!! These days I am doing a lot of stretching to regain the ROM on this ankle. It's only been two days, but I can already see clear improvement. So all of these pain and issues I had with my right ankle was actually not due to the repositioning of my tendon, but rather a section of badly inflamed and cramped muscle.
Also, the allergy rash is getting much better. It's no longer itchy. I believe in a week also the rash should disappear completely.
Life is back to peace with my two evil enemies gone! I am praying that it will be smooth sailing from now on 
Ahhh cortisone. An LLer's best friend. That was the one thing that helped with my inflamed knees.
Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on July 31, 2014, 02:42:02 AMAhhh cortisone. An LLer's best friend. That was the one thing that helped with my inflamed knees.
Haha, medium, you are right!! Actually you know what's funny is that while I was having pain in my foot and ankle, I kept thinking about your knees, and how you got better immediately after the cortisone injection. Secretly, I was hoping my ankle would be just as lucky as your knees, and get a quick relieve. At first when I requested the cortisone injection into my tendons, Dr Lee rejected my request in fear of tendon rapture. It was not until the second week when he found out the cramp of my muscle he decided to inject me with cortisone
I must say that one thing I am very happy throughout my lengthening process is that fact I chose Dr Lee to do my surgery. Over and over again, Dr Lee has proven to be extremely caring, skiLL Forumul, knowledgeable, professional. Also I want to mention about his assistant Ms Han. From the very beginning, before I even met Dr Lee, she was answering all my questions, making arrangements for me. After I decided to have surgery from Dr Lee, she was helping me with finding a place to stay. After I arrived here, due to the language barrier, she has been my personal translator for everything. She also is ordering take outs for me, finding me a wheelchair company, looking for care takers when I needed one. She even offered to stay with me in my apartment the first day when the care taker came to make sure things are OK. Whenever I encounter any trouble, she is always the first person I ask for help, and without fail, she always resolves the situation for me with a smile
Good that you are feeling much better, do you have any knee pains or discomforts? You said a while back that it was ok, how is it now?
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