Quote from: TheAlchemist on January 05, 2020, 02:27:41 PMCongrats verticalpush! Glad that this has had such positive, life changing impact on your life. I was able to hit 8 CM as well and am so happy with the outcome.
Quite the shoe lift collection you have there haha. I'm going to have a ceremonious burning of my lifts soon - those things amplified my height neurosis. You're right, getting rid of the lifts opens up so many options for footwear, low tops with thin soles, slippers, etc. it's a great feeling.
Whats up TheAlchemist! Congrats on completing the journey brother. I'm so glad you got the full 8 CM!! I DEFINITELY would have regretted stopping early (in fact, I briefly stopped at 7.5 CM before deciding to push through the final 5 MM.
QuoteCouple of questions:
1) As you have met with family, old friends, and co workers after LL, what % of them would you say noticed the height increase? Would love to hear from you because your situation was very much similar to mine in the context of wearing 2 inch lifts pre LL and taking them out post LL and I'm hoping I can go by unnoticed. If they did notice how did you respond?
Well, wearing the lifts before surgery definitely helped. However, almost half the people I'm close with (work friends, friends from middle school back at home, neighbors) have all made SOME sort of comment about my height. USUALLY they will back down once I say something like "Oh, well doing PT must have improved my posture", but there are at least 2 people (including one of my work colleagues) who manage to bring up my height difference in almost every conversation. I guess it just depends. Even if you have a few people like that, it's only temporary that they'll do that. I think my friend who keeps bringing up the height thing actually KNOWS I went through with the procedure because he's one of my good friends and he's close to two other good friends who I outright told the truth to.
Be selective in who you tell. If you tell a good friend, you can't really expect them to keep their mouth shut to other close friends you share, especially if they think they're doing you a favor by talking to other friends and deciding whether to stage an "intervention" or something (I have no idea if that's true, but I wouldn't put it past my friend to consider doing that since I know he thought I was crazy when I told him the plan). In retrospect, I probably would not have told that one friend, but I felt it was good that a few people knew what was going on in case something went wrong.
Quote2) At what point in consolidation (# of days post distraction) would you say your walk was normal enough to get by without any comments from outsiders? I'm shooting for 2.5 months post distraction to get back to work with the goal of looking normal enough.
So my surgery was May 24 I believe (I'd have to look back through my posts). I was doing PT quite often in June and July. My walk was terrible during those months. By late August/early September I'd say I was at the 50% mark - people might notice your walk is off. It wasn't until October that my walk was normal enough to where casual passerbyers aren't going to notice anything, but if anyone spends a good amount of time with you they are going to notice you're not 100%. By mid-Late November (that's the 6 month mark), it was really only getting out of a chair or getting out of bed where something looked "off". By mid-Late December, I found I didn't even need to mention getting any sort of surgery done to new people I met, because I was close enough to 100%. So, by 4 months it's possible outsiders won't notice anything, and by 5 months they definitely shouldn't notice anything. Your results may vary a bit but you seem to be very good about PT and moving around, so you might even do a little better than that!
My Vertical Push with Dr. Debiparshad (Strydes in Femurs)
Awesome thanks for the detailed breakdown VP!
Great sharing! Great journey, VerticalPush.
Any chance you will post a walking video?
Hey verticalpush,
I have sent you a PM please check asap
What's up verticalpush, haven't heard from you in a little while bro, how's everything? any updates?
Quote from: Movie on March 12, 2020, 06:04:45 AMWhat's up verticalpush, haven't heard from you in a little while bro, how's everything? any updates?
What's up Movie! Staying alive in a crazy world. I feel for anyone right now who's doing this in the Coronavirus scare. Grocery stores are absolutely empty right now. I imagine if anyone has surgery planned the next 2-3 weeks they will be cancelled. One thing this surgery did for the better is to prepare me to function in what is, essentially, social isolation.
Quick update on progress - things continue to go very well. I can walk quite fast now and can do some light jogging. I still cannot comfortably sprint but using the elliptical machine with quite a bit of resistance for 30 minutes or so is no problem. I have had several days of walking 6-7 miles on relatively flat trails. I do feel sore by the end of walking, and the soreness will persist for a few hours after I get back home. I think that is normal and should decrease over time. There isn't much pain associated with the soreness.
All in all, life continues to play out as it did before the surgery. I'm way more confident. People don't bring up my height difference at all anymore - which to me is such a wonderful sign that I've reached the point I wanted to get to.
Hope everyone is doing well. Stay safe out there!
One of the best diaries I've read yet, amazing recovery. Good job vertical push.
Quote from: dreamBig on January 08, 2020, 05:29:47 AMGreat sharing! Great journey, VerticalPush.
Any chance you will post a walking video?
I hope to see more pics from Verticalpush post OP too
This is a great diary verticalpush! I was wondering if everything turned out okay for you? Could you provide us with an update?
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