Quote from: microman on July 03, 2015, 11:07:05 PMI thought 6cm would take 10 months, was there some issues along the way, sorry if I didn't read the whole diary accurately.
I think maybe you should get scar revision as well, they look like nasty holes, do you know if monorail scars would be worse?
My local ortho wanted to take them off after 10 months, but Dr Parihar said there'd be a risk of the regenerate bending if I took them off then, so we waited for the 1 year mark which would equal 2 months of consolidation per cm lengthened. Within the normal healing range.
Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on July 03, 2015, 11:10:40 PMLooks like you didn't have much pin cutting, which would've been painful and made the scars into lines rather than dots. I had really bad pin cutting.
Did you have them around both the knee and the ankle? For the other wires by the knee, Dr Parihar made the holes bigger so they'd have some room and not tear the skin there as much. Was kind of irritating because they let out a lot more ooze than the other holes.
No More Mal-Kahn-Tent - External Tibias - Dr Parihar
Holy dude - awesome. Those scars look badass. You could do like the joker and make up a different story every time. "I took a shotgun blast to the legs", "A grenade went odd nearby and I got hit with the shrapenal", etc. Tell them you were an army get, a bear hunter, a debt collector for the mob. 
Seriously though, cool scars. I imagine you'll want to get rid of them, but you could also wear them like badges of honour. Souvenirs of your journey and fight.
I think this is a fake diary like that other India one. How do we know that this is even a real patient when we haven't seen his face or a picture uploaded where he's written his username on a paper and is holding it next to his frames?
Quote from: maximize on July 04, 2015, 12:32:01 AMHoly dude - awesome. Those scars look badass. You could do like the joker and make up a different story every time. "I took a shotgun blast to the legs", "A grenade went OFF nearby and I got hit with the SHRAPNEL", etc. Tell them you were an army VET, a bear hunter, a debt collector for the mob...
Wow typos that's what I get for trying to use a phone to post.
Quote from: ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°) on July 04, 2015, 01:56:35 AMI think this is a fake diary like that other India one. How do we know that this is even a real patient when we haven't seen his face or a picture uploaded where he's written his username on a paper and is holding it next to his frames?
Agreed. It's clearly all prosthetics, makeup, and Hollywood magic.
Quote from: maximize on July 04, 2015, 12:32:01 AMHoly crap dude - awesome. Those scars look badass. You could do like the joker and make up a different story every time. "I took a shotgun blast to the legs", "A grenade went odd nearby and I got hit with the shrapenal", etc. Tell them you were an army get, a bear hunter, a debt collector for the mob.
Seriously though, cool scars. I imagine you'll want to get rid of them, but you could also wear them like badges of honour. Souvenirs of your journey and fight.
Hah, I'll probably have to come up with some stories. They should be a lot less noticeable over time though, especially once the granulation tissue is removed since my legs are kinda hairy. The scars don't really bother me though. I'm just happy I didn't get a severe case of x-legs or anything.
Quote from: ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°) on July 04, 2015, 01:56:35 AMI think this is a fake diary like that other India one. How do we know that this is even a real patient when we haven't seen his face or a picture uploaded where he's written his username on a paper and is holding it next to his frames?
Shoot, and here I thought my secret was safe.
Alternatively:
- You were wading through the waters of Amazon hunting for rare orchids and you were attacked by a swarm of ravenous snakes/leeches/piranha.
- You were rescuing your buddy from behind enemy lines. On the way back your legs got tangled in some barbed wire ... But like hell if that was going to stop you!
- A woodpecker mistook your legs for tree trunks, and you were too passed-out drunk to notice until after the damage was done.
Okay that's all I've got. I'll stop now. 
The woodpecker one made me lol. I'm going to definitely respond with that one and see how it goes.
Quote from: maximize on July 04, 2015, 05:21:59 AMAlternatively:
- You were wading through the waters of Amazon hunting for rare orchids and you were attacked by a swarm of ravenous snakes/leeches/piranha.
- You were rescuing your buddy from behind enemy lines. On the way back your legs got tangled in some barbed wire ... But like hell if that was going to stop you!
- A woodpecker mistook your legs for tree trunks, and you were too passed-out drunk to notice until after the damage was done.
Okay that's all I've got. I'll stop now.
I enjoyed reading this, good post
Quote from: KiloKAHN on July 03, 2015, 11:32:48 PMMy local ortho wanted to take them off after 10 months, but Dr Parihar said there'd be a risk of the regenerate bending if I took them off then, so we waited for the 1 year mark which would equal 2 months of consolidation per cm lengthened. Within the normal healing range.
Congratulations on removing your frames. Life must be tremendously better now!
What is your local ortho's impression about Dr.Parihar's surgical skills and his work on your legs?
Quote from: TRS on July 04, 2015, 06:50:42 AMCongratulations on removing your frames. Life must be tremendously better now!
What is your local ortho's impression about Dr.Parihar's surgical skills and his work on your legs?
Everything feels so much better now. It's awesome to be able to sleep so easily and get in a bathtub with no hassle. I feel slight pain at times on some of the pin sites that haven't completely healed, and brief pangs of muscle pain on the calves, but I suspect those will subside in time.
My doc hasn't commented on what he's thought of Dr Parihar's technique, although he did say it's a good thing that I went to a prior fellow of Dr Paley. He did think that Dr Parihar was being too conservative in waiting to remove the frames, though. But because I don't have any misalignment, non-union, or x-legs, I'd say he did a good job.
Current ortho did his training with Dr Mark Brinker: http://drbrinker.com/mark-brinker-md/index.html
He's a surgeon I coincidentally had contacted a long time ago to see if he offers CLL, but his office responded that he doesn't.
if I saw those scars on a person the only thing I could think of is maybe someone shot you at close range with a bb gun or something.
but yeah explaining the scars would be far too hard to do, especially since they exist only on your lower leg and are practically symmetrical to each other, which indicates it wont be an accident or something.
I think if you can get rid of the bottom scars, it would look 10x more normal, so maybe you just have to get rid of half of them.
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