Observations/tips two days ish after LL surgery

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When I'm not sure how to move my body to get into a certain position, I've kept defaulting to putting both hands under one knee. I'm not quite sure the optimal way to move the legs/body yet to move in bed, but putting two hands under one knee -> gives a bit of control of where at least one leg will go. Wonder if the nurses have any advice on this 

pushing with triceps into the bed to scooch over slowly also helpful

did not realize how helpless someone ends up without full use of their thigh muscles, like even in bed I feel alot more restricted in my movement. legs are just alot stronger than your arms ---and when you can't use the legs effectively, it just becomes alot more evident how reliant we are on legs even in situations you don't normally associate with legs (like being on a bed)

Sometimes I wonder 'damn, I wonder if this would be easier if I was only 130 pounds back in freshman year of college over 10 years ago' instead of more like 170 now

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Thanks so much for the tips! And good luck with your lengthening journey!

I have a couple of questions:
-Did you get given the option of Novotel also when booking for a hotel? I read in Ozboy's diary Dr G may be starting to offer this hotel to patients.
-Did you get a catheter for the surgery?
-Which weight-bearing nail did you get (e.g. the 95kg ones or another)?
-What is your starting height?
-What is your target height?
-How many days will you stay at the hospital?
-Did you stay at Montaza the day before the surgery too?
-Do you have any money saving tips?

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Quote from: thankscience on September 15, 2022, 10:30:05 AMThanks so much for the tips! And good luck with your lengthening journey!

I have a couple of questions:
-Did you get given the option of Novotel also when booking for a hotel? I read in Ozboy's diary Dr G may be starting to offer this hotel to patients.

I admit to being completely out of the loop. Ozboy wanna comment on this? I'm a bit in the dark on this 

-Did you get a catheter for the surgery?

No. I heard that a male precise patient ended up using one though

-Which weight-bearing nail did you get (e.g. the 95kg ones or another)?

I apologize, I prolly should know this but I don't. Vaguely remember it might have been 13 mm gnail or something but I am aware this might not be answering your question

-What is your starting height?

I'll keep it a secret in case someone I know goes on this forum, but its less than 170 cm starting height

-What is your target height?

Target is 6-7 cm more than now

-How many days will you stay at the hospital?

3, and I think that is standard, ne1 know if its different for precise or different for tibias? I used gnail femurs

-Did you stay at Montaza the day before the surgery too?

I did just in case my flight got cancelled-- so I came very early and took a few days to scope out the area. I think technically, if you time things perfectly w/ the flight and meeting, it is possible to 1. arrive 2. go to the pre-operation appointment that same day day 3. spend one night in montaza 4. surgery 5. hospital 6. back to montaza

So if you trust your flight will be on time, its possible to only have 1 night at montaza before the surgery

-Do you have any money saving tips?

I apologize that my advice will be a bit bland and a bit too USA focused. Series i bonds if you're in the USA for certain. There are some other miscellaneous high yield savings accounts (DCU gives 6% on 1000 USD, Affinity credit union gives 3.5% on 5000, Current gives 4% on 3*2000=6000 USD), bask bank (rumor is if you connect certain bank accounts to it, it causes freezings/errors though) offering about 2.5% now, but admittedly their websites are a bit frustrating to sign up for (some old, some have weird hoops to jump through like current have to setup three 2000 USD pods). Prize Pool savings account might technically be worth looking into (lower APY than bask bank for many but gives randomly generated awards that sometimes offset this). The signups for all of these are frustrating enough that it may be better to spend that time working/studying but these are options. I admit to being too noob with stocks/crypto to venture into them.


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Quote from: thankscience on September 15, 2022, 10:30:05 AM-Do you have any money saving tips?

I forgot other misc savings accounts but I believe discover, chase, TD bank, maybe some others have some signup bonuses which, depending on your work, may not be worth your time. I believe that fidelity has a signup bonus w/ its cash management account and also an account geared towards young people called fidelity bloom, and with this last one I vaguely remember there is some way to get 5% on 300 USD (so 15 bucks a year) if you keep on putting 300 USD into fidelity bloom every year

I think wealthfront has a 2% checking account too

There are no-penalty CD's from savebetter or other companies that might be worth looking into but I would not be keen to use them since the fed will probably increase interest rates a bit more

Sadly, the thing all these have in common is that the APY is just very very low (except perhaps series i bonds) but its better I think than having money in crypto or stocks and then them crashing right before you are about to do LL

I'd avoid crypto lending based on the disasters of terra luna, celsius, voyager, etc. I forget if FTX even allows non-accredited investors to get 8% yield anymore

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Thanks so much! Your answers are very helpful 

How is your pain level now?

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Pain when not moving is close to 0 or 1 out of 10. But when do stretches its maybe 7 out of 10

Having difficulty getting good range of motion on stretches by myself, looking forward to doing them w/ nurses/physical therapists

transferring on/off beds and on/off toilet still very difficult, need help

keep getting accidental clicks when transfer on/off bed, gotta figure out better technique

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Do you have to count the accidental clicks to know how much you have accidentally lengthened?

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Quote from: thankscience on September 16, 2022, 06:28:17 AMDo you have to count the accidental clicks to know how much you have accidentally lengthened?

I've been told to not worry about them for now, any LL veterans out there wanna point out anything?

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Something about the hospital beds- sometimes after some nurses do some work in the room, they will unfortunately move the object with the 'call for help' nurse button to a place hard for you to reach

What I've found is that to reach that nurse button, I set my bed to be flat, scooch back a bit, and then there was this white wire hanging down. I was able to just reach it and that white wire led me to the object with the 'call for a nurse' button

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I admit that despite doing LL in Athens now, I have not been very disciplined w/ making a budget and am curious what you guys would put as cost estimates for this

I'd haphazard a guess of 60k USD, but maybe that's a lowball estimate

The recent strength of the USD might help

I am not sure if montaza is actually more expensive than apartment if you add in all the variables- b/c it includes breakfast, toilet paper, help from the hotel staff, there's the elevator and lift for the wheelchair, you don't have to fix stuff, you don't have to think about utilities, it has some handicap rooms. You can go downstairs (or actually probably its better to just take some pictures of their menus, then call the front desk with your phone) and pay 12 euros later for a full meal if breakfast buffet wasn't enough. Anyone wanna chime in?