Quote from: Blackhawk on July 08, 2014, 12:50:47 AMThat's a lot of weight for someone your height! I am about 167 and my highest weight when I worked out a lot was about 85kgs.
Do you think you might have too much muscle and resistance to lengthening on your legs? I remember reading captain Americas diary and he had a lot of muscle and he had problems. But maybe Sarins frames were just weaker.
I'll have to ask Dr Parihar tomorrow about whether or not he'll think muscle resistance will end up a problem for me later down the line. As of now I haven't noticed any particular tightness or resistance to the turning. Fortunately my frames aren't bending like Captain America's did, though it's because exfix only frames are more sturdy and full of more components than frames you wear for LON.
Quote from: BilateralDamage on July 08, 2014, 04:03:05 AMSo glad to hear you're doing well Khan. The nights get lonely, I definitely know this, but once you start standing next to people and realizing you're almost average height, it makes it all worth it. Stay strong!
Btw, I envy your starting weight. You're built like a brick man! You're going to look great post lengthening. 
Yeah, one of the downsides of doing lengthening here is that not only am I the first international cosmetic patient (Dr Parihar has done 10 cosmetic cases all for locals), but nobody in this hotel is international. Actually since I've been here I'm the only Westerner I've seen. I saw one guy from Africa and a Chinese family at the Foreigner registration office and that's it. Not quite used to Indian cuisine either so there's that hurdle.
Hah, well my build definitely helped when I was on the wrestling team. I was often wrestling people much taller than me as nobody my height was close to my weight. It was awkward for them and it resulted in a lot of wins for me.
Quote from: Classical on July 08, 2014, 05:45:37 AMThank you for the fantastic dairy! These are definitely some great pictures you took The beginning two weeks are very painful. I hope you are feeling better now. In terms of the crust you see around the pin site, don't worry, they are normal. If the discharge is yellow and clear then it's just regular bone discharge. However, if the color gets opaque and you are in pain then it's infection. For me, I on purposely leave these dried discharge on my pin site, they seem to help stabilizing the wound to the pin and cause less pain from movements.
Yeah the first two weeks seem like they'll have been the worst. I'm just over that and despite continuing distraction the pain has lessened with more physiotherapy and increased standing. From what both you and Dr Divya described about infections, I think I have an infected pin near my ankle. I'm going to check on it tomorrow and see if I can get antibiotics for it. By the way, do you change your dressings every single day? I change them each day and clean them by soaking sterile gauze in boiled water. Is that the same procedure you were given for cleaning the pins?
Quote from: yugiohja on July 09, 2014, 03:36:15 PMHow is the air quality like there?
Air quality is similar to what I'm used to, though I lived in downtown Los Angeles so I guess I'm used to bad air. It seems clean enough, but there are definitely areas of Mumbai where you just get this sewage smell that's not at all pleasant. I've found that Mumbai is very similar to Shanghai in a lot of ways.
Quote from: KirP1 on July 09, 2014, 07:51:51 PMIs that weight of muscle or fat?
Well when I was at my peak level of fitness on my university's wrestling team, I weighed 84 kg (185 lbs) and had very little body fat. I've done weight training for mass gain since the age of 13 so most of that weight was made up in solid muscle. However, after two years of being forced at a desk job for 10 hour days and slowed metabolism, I packed on the fat. Pretty much all of it was concentrated on my abdomen. Judging from my wrestling team body weight and level of fitness, I would guess that I have around 30 lbs of fat that I could stand to lose.
