Quadrilateral Lengthening with Dr. Paley

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HI

Why didnt you choose the external for tibia?  I read that external better for tibia.  so why choose internal?

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Quote from: Iamready on February 14, 2016, 02:33:30 PMTiBike 200 Check out page 4 for a pic of me 1 month in. That was right before they slowed me to a halt.

 If I understand correctly, that pic of you on page 4, you are the same height as you are in the pic of this page? Or at the pic on page 4 you were 2 inch and now you are more? I am a bit confused sorry

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That's me with less than an inch of lengthening and poofy hair.  The photos on this page are of me with 2 inches of lengthening.  The only thing I can do is provide updated pictures whenever my dad visits me and when I'm done with the femurs.  Whether or not 2 inches looks like 2 inches is besides the point because I don't have an official Olympic committee that can measure everything with 100% accuracy .  The Dr. at the Paley Center measured me last Wednesday and said I was at 5.2 cm. So when I took this pic I was at roughly 5.4 cm-2.126 inches.  I downgraded to 2 because I like to be conservative and I didn't think this would blow up.

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Quote from: chineseguy on February 14, 2016, 03:05:45 PMHI

Why didnt you choose the external for tibia?  I read that external better for tibia.  so why choose internal?

Because I trust the Paley institute in their decision to use an internal device for the Tibia. I chose them for my surgery so I stuck with their game plan.

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hey pal,

I have a question for you that might have already been asked pages ago but I don't have an overview.

Probably you must have seen several patients getting their rods taken out or just coming for a general check after the whole procedure including rods taken out. What kind of recovery have you seen? (I know this only concerns the recovery in terms of everyday function and not atheltic ability)

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pictures are looking amazing
i'm excited for your surgery on thursday
keep on reaching your dream

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Iamready, your videos are amazing. Very inspiring! Would love to do internal lengthening as well! Good luck and hope everything gets even better with you.

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Hello Iamready,
Were you able to drive at all?
I recall in one of your posts, you were going to display how to get into cars and so forth; however I don't recall seeing that video
Are others driving while lengthening?
Thanks again 

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I could get in an out of cars because of my strength and fearlessness but I never drove one because how the fk would I put my wheelchair in the car.  Anyways i'm so done... They tell me today that while they do my femurs they need to do an additional operation to straighten out my tibias because the fibulas consolidated sooner and caused it to curve... or some ish like that.

It's symmetrical, but who really knows the real reason they ended up this way, or why they didn't catch it sooner. I recall Paley noticing that the fibula was lagging behind the tibia way back maybe a month but he said it was fixable.  I didn't realize fixable meant an additional operation out of pocket.  It is what it is.   
 
Nothing comes easy.  I'll fill you guys in if the operation doesn't kill me.  For now I need to take a break, i'm not lengthening anymore especially after seeing my standing x-ray.

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Sorry to hear about your troubles.