sorry to hear this penguin. it is has been a long time of recovering for you. at least you do not have any soft tissue or nerve problems which are harder.
it seems like the doctors fault. still, anything can happen with any doctor.
how well do you say the doctor and team look after you now, with such a complication?
Even if for some reason you have delayed consolidation in the left leg,you have the reverse mechanism in precice 2 (thanks Hell!), dont worry. There is a clear improvement from April to May, If It were nonunion It would be the same, without any change.keep walking!
I have no idea what you guys are talking about lol. My improvement is constant, so it can't be non-union. There's a lot of improvement in the leg in the last month. I just said it's a shame that it hasn't recovered as fast as the right leg.
I'm walking unaided(only at home for safety reasons). My only complication as of now is a slightly wobbly gait.
Quote from: doomsday on June 16, 2017, 12:40:47 PMThat left one looks bad buddy. Im not a doctor but there were people with partial non union and it seems like it. Hopefully im wrong and you just need some extra time. I know that Dooghoon is using BMAC (Bone Marrow Aspirate Concentrate) to speed up recovery.
You are completely wrong.
The left bone has consolidated less than right but it has still a good bone bridge and there is no way a non union case.
Penguinn everything seems completely fine.
Be a little patient and soon you'll walk completely unaided and fine.
Keep strong!
Quote from: Body Builder on June 16, 2017, 10:16:12 PMYou are completely wrong.
The left bone has consolidated less than right but it has still a good bone bridge and there is no way a non union case.
Penguinn everything seems completely fine.
Be a little patient and soon you'll walk completely unaided and fine.
Keep strong!
I was never worried, because I sense the improvement in me every week. 
My mom had seen me 2 weeks ago and then just now and says my gait has made a tremendous improvement. I literally walked like a penguin 15 days ago. Now I walk like a normal person who stubbed his left toe or with a small muscle pull in his left leg. I'm overjoyed. Last month I thought my horrible gait would take months to become normal, and now I'm walking with an 80% normal gait after 5 minutes of waking up and walking. (Immediately after waking up is horrible)
Being normal enough to walk and answer the doorbell (albeit slowly) after months of not being able to feels awesome.
However this doesn't last for long. After walking for 5-10 minutes I get tired and the gait keeps getting worse. My gait will get even worse on bumpy ass Indian roads if I go outside. For these reasons, I'll carry a crutch when I go out (also so people don't bump into me). I have my fingers crossed that my gait becomes normal and my muscle's stamina increases in a month. Honestly, this is the easy part of recovery. I don't feel like a handicapped person anymore.
It's not uncommon for one leg to consolidate slower than the other. My local ortho was convinced that one of my fibulae was going to be incomplete and not completely consolidate and yet after a few weeks of pushing myself to walk more it ended up consolidating even thicker than the other one.
My gait is improving really well. I can say I walk with a 90% normal gait now- *at home, on a plain surface, for short periods of time
Stamina and walking on rough surfaces should improve with time. It's nice to see improvements every 4 days after not seeing significant improvement for months. I hope this continues.
[this is my first posting here after weeks of reading]
penguin, thanks a lot for your diary.
you sound like a mature and intelligent young man.
(is english at this high level is common in india?)
stay safe and thanks again for all this contribution.
Hey Penguinn. Any updates?
Nothing really. Gait improvement is slow because there's not much left to improve.
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