Quote from: bluebarbie on October 17, 2015, 11:55:49 AMCongratulations on ur misalingnment fixed, Nomad. Did u lose any mms? How much weight can u put on ur legs at the moment? Wishing you fastest recovary.
Bluebarbie, I can now answer your question if I lost any mms, because Mr. Monegal was nice enough to visit me tonight (after he performed two LL operations) and finally freed my left leg from those very much thick and uncomfortable bandages. So now I can start bending my leg, flexing my knee and moving around. As you can see on the new picture knee heights are identical:
Also X-rays confirmed I didn't loose any length. Because Dr. Monegal and his team were careful enough to fixate the distracted length before inserting IM nail. Dr. Monegal explained to me what kind of measures they took to perform this complex operation, but there are too many technical details which I am afraid won't be able to properly explain here. Maybe I'll ask Dr. Monegal to elaborate on my case in this thread.
Again, I am so much relieved Dr.Monegal has completely fixed terrible terrible valgus and misalignment I had. There is little knee pain, but I believe it is quite normal to have some pain on the second day after IM nail insertion. I am pretty sure it will subside soon.
Nomad fixing post monorail Valgus with Dr. Monegal
After having a correction operation by Dr. Monegal with wonderful result and spending one week in the hospital just to recover little bit, I flied off from Barcelona yesterday, I've already arrived to my destination today and I feel it is the right time now for me to post my final entry in this forum. I didn't want to end this page just by disappearing as I know how sad it feels seeing other "unfinished" diaries. So I wanted to put at least some final thoughts and try to explain why I am taking off.
Well, in fact for various reasons I never wanted to participate in the public forums like this in the fist place. One of them, for example, is that English is not my first language and I wouldn't be able to write a good diary anyway. But most importantly I believe writing a diary would mean to potentially influence someone else's life, health, destinty. That's a big responsibility to take.
Also, unfortunately, I witnessed with my own eyes how young insecure, immature guys go for remote countries and get crippled just because they were impressed with sugarcoated or even false fairy tales of others just to find out the reality was completely different at too late stages. As a quite straight-forward person I wouldn't be able to write all the true things either as doing so often time means hurting others: doctors, other too much verbose LL patients who naively start to believe they are now top LL experts just because they were doing LL and who start consult other guys as uneducated and immature as themselves.
On the other hand, no doubt there are lots of sincere and truthful participants here or the old forum. However, I do firmly believe all the time and efforts of that kind of good part of the forum is often wasted in vain, not paid attention to, not easily found and then thoughtfully processed, seriously analyzed to take further decisions about LL. And that's not their fault, but the nature of this kind of public forums - not the best organization of information. To say frankly in my opinion this or the old forum are big two free-for-alls with lot's of unnecessarily repeated questions, answers, true facts and not so much true pieces of information, absence of admin diligence or often times on the contrary authority abuse.
And if some ask why I did start this page at all if I was so critical of the forums, then I really didn't want to, but sort of had to (when I developed terrible misalignment, my first doctor put me under MUA two times on top of the first operation, he really couldn't fix it and I realized I was tired of empty hopes and must start searching the solution elsewhere and luckily found it in Span with Dr.Monegal.) Because I wanted to publicly demonstrate how badly can monorail LL cases go awry; to give to potential monorails LLer another alert about this particular method of LL. So take it as my tiny contribution and I'll be happy if my particular story saves someone from taking a bad decision.
Finally, I really would like to wish all the best to everyone and use the right to exercise my personal decision - not to take part in this anymore and start having a new life.
I can fully understand your decision and outlook on life and what goes on with the LL community. It's sad to see someone as obviously experienced as yourself leave but after what you've been through I think that you should just forget about it as best you can and move on with your life. I hope for the absolute best recovery and life for you. If you ever do decide to drop by in extended periodic time then I would welcome it; in any case best wishes!
Nomad you speak the truth and I 100% agree with you about these public forums. That said, I hope and wish I never see any posts from you again 
I wish that you are out living your life and never ever have to look back at this. Good luck on an awesome recovery man 
That looks like a Mitkovic fixator.
And it would make sense because I know for a fact that Dr. Mitkovic has often told patients that misalignments less than 10 degrees are acceptable and do not require correction. This whole diary is possibly gaining some context and I think some dots are starting to connect.
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