One year of isolation for LL managable?

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Plan: Get unilateral/staged precice LL in a different European country away from home. Get one leg done, let it heal for 6 months, get the other leg done, let it heal for 6 months, go back home.

This means

* one year of being disabled
* one year of being away from any family or friends
* the only people I will meet in the one year are: LL medical team, PT and maybe waiters at restaurants, cashiers at the grocery store, taxi drivers, random people on public transportation and so on.
* I will end up splitting my time between my home, the doctor's clinic, restaurants, PT center, grocery shops, maybe a movie once in a while.

Sometimes I think I will go crazy (whatever that means) if I do this. Worst case what will happen?

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The only things you should worried about it here is having a leg longer than the other and your bank account.

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Yeah they don't charge by the leg.

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If you are doing one leg at a time to be more mobile, you may as go home and enjoy your normal routine. I am doing unilateral tibial lengthening at home now. If I had to be somewhere else for this whole process, I would have just done bilateral.

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Quote from: 6CMFemurs on March 23, 2022, 10:59:20 PMIf you are doing one leg at a time to be more mobile, you may as go home and enjoy your normal routine. I am doing unilateral tibial lengthening at home now. If I had to be somewhere else for this whole process, I would have just done bilateral.

I can't do that because people will find out.

At the same time I can't do bilateral because I can't handle being in a wheelchair.

I was thinking of getting a desk job in the city I will be in. Do you think it's possible to go to an office on crutches? Will people be able to see the discrepancy in femurs?

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It's a bad idea to do LL if you can't handle being in a wheelchair.

I presume it's psychological?

You will be going through much worse than that

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Quote from: tallerwouldbenice on March 24, 2022, 12:41:29 PMIt's a bad idea to do LL if you can't handle being in a wheelchair.

I presume it's psychological?

You will be going through much worse than that

I am an anxious person. I can't handle being that helpless on a wheelchair without a close family member. That is why I am planning to do staged LL. It requires almost no wheelchair use that way. However the duration of social isolation is almost doubled. One year of no real contact with friends or family.

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Quote from: randy on March 24, 2022, 01:03:27 PMI can't handle being that helpless on a wheelchair without a close family member.

Why don't you just stay in the hospital or rehab facility? There are nurses and doctors around.

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Quote from: Resiliency on March 24, 2022, 01:41:25 PMWhy don't you just stay in the hospital or rehab facility? There are nurses and doctors around.

They don't have these where I'm planning on going. I think the only places which have these are Turkey and Korea and Betz institute Germany.

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Quote from: randy on March 24, 2022, 02:20:52 PMThey don't have these where I'm planning on going. I think the only places which have these are Turkey and Korea and Betz institute Germany.

Any hospital has rooms. Just check them out or just find the ones that have.