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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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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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: 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: LLprime3 on March 24, 2022, 03:00:50 PMFor someone who seeks advice, you're not giving key information.
What is your budget?
You want to do LL in a "different European country". Different from what aspect? If you don't live in Germany or Turkey then these are "different European contries". How come Germany or Turkey don't qualify? What is your criteria actually?
You don't want your surgery to be noticed. There are two ways to get noticed: Scars or growing after a certain age. Are you even young enough to make it seem as if you grew naturally?
You want to be somewhat mobile but you choose the worst method for mobility.

Do you really want to live keeping your surgery in secret, aways looking back over your shoulder and wondering about the reaction if it gets out, like a gay person keeping his sxxuality a secret.

If you do LON in Turkey, you will be able to walk with crutches during the lengthening, stay at a hotel, and after 6 months you can walk without crutches, having weight bearing nails inside, and money left for multiple cosmetic appointments to remove your scars in the coming months.

You also want to work during LL and find a temporary job like it's nothing, not even difficult. So you want to make it seems as if you were never gone, never having a gap in your resume? Is that it? All that unrealistic planning just to hide you did LL?

Thanks for the reply.

* The goal of keeping a job is only to have some social contact. It is not career related.
* The main focus of this thread is to understand what going through this would do to us mentally. I know what this entails physically, but not so much mentally.
* Everyone has a different privacy goal, but I think it is not a good idea to let anyone know. If you recover well, I doubt anyone would suspect this surgery at all even if you look different.
* LON femurs is not recommended by most good doctors. It also creates a lot of scarring.
* With unilateral Precice LL you can be reasonably mobile at least for short distances. I am not sure why you say it's the worst method for mobility.

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Quote from: Siegfried on April 01, 2022, 02:33:19 PMWhen doing uniteral ll, you will be on crutches for about 1 year. Make sure to be with another person when doing this. Im with my parents in my home town, and i also told 3 friends. If I wouldnt have anybody supporting me during this time, I would have gone insane, and im only 6 months in btw. Living alone during this procedure is also basically impossible, because you will need help in everyday life (cooking, cleaning, everything related to household things) so there is that aspect as well.

Is it very difficult to cook, clean and do household things while standing on one leg?

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Thanks for all the suggestions all.

It is appearing like most people do this with family members. In the good old days people would travel to Russia alone and spend 9 months in external frames and come back. Back then there was no youtube I think. I do not know what it will feel like. If it is not very painful and I sleep well I think I can live a somewhat normal life with occasional social contact.