Hello.
I am 178.5-179 cm and my wingspan is 6'1
I am a premed student and will be taking the MCAT (admission exam) this upcoming feb/march and will be volunteering/working in hospital all of 2018 to make $. Have 7k saved right now
Applications open in June 2018 for medical school
and Interviews happen up till ~feb 2019. Most medical school start dates are in august.
So hopefully will be in US medical school in Aug 2019
So I have between Feb 2019 till end of July/start of Aug 2019 for my LL journey
That is 6 months.
I want to do only 3 cm via external fixator. Do you guys think I will have the external fixators off in 6 months if I did 3 cm. I would not want to go to medical school with them on.
If not, I am going to try to work 2 jobs in 2018 and save up enough money to do internal lengthening via Dr. Paley. I currently have no expenses. So all the money that I make via my jobs will go into my savings account. If I go the internal route, I will lengthen 4-4.5 cm
Thank you for your time.
A big reason why I want to do external fixators is because internals are more invasive
and my tibias are slightly bowed and I would want them to get straightened with lengthening at same time. This is possible with Dr. Pilli hybrid external fixator
It's hard to tell these things because they change depending on/according to the situation, and you shouldn't consider my answer very seriously because I haven't done LL, as I can be getting details wrong. I'm sure some LL vets will help.
But just from the math (taking the typical distraction rate of .75mm a day with external tibias), shouldn't it take the pre-surgery + surgery time, plus around 40 days of lengthening (for 3cm), and then however long it takes for the full frame removal + consolidation phase (which I'm not sure of)? Anyone please correct me if I'm wrong.
You won't be able to afford Dr. Paley in 1 year even if you spend every possible moment working.
To save 100,000$ in 1 year you need to save 1,900$ a week (AFTER taxes), so you need to find a job that will pay you 45$/hr (31$ after taxes) and give you 60 hours a week to work for 1 year straight no stopping.
Your not going to find a job like that as premed. Internals in general are not feasible unless you already have a good paying job.
Plan to do external fixators.
Quote from: Zeo on December 31, 2017, 01:07:15 AMYou won't be able to afford Dr. Paley in 1 year even if you spend every possible moment working.
To save 100,000$ in 1 year you need to save 1,900$ a week (AFTER taxes), so you need to find a job that will pay you 45$/hr (31$ after taxes) and give you 60 hours a week to work for 1 year straight no stopping.
Your not going to find a job like that as premed. Internals in general are not feasible unless you already have a good paying job.
Plan to do external fixators.
thnx man. Just in a time crunch when i was trying to plan everything
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