Quadrilateral Lengthening with Dr. Paley

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iamready
i think you look like Clark Kaint from superman

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Thanks for the compliment. I don't know my wingspan but I'm pretty sure I passed it lol. I'm ok with that. I got my femurs measured today so I'm at 3.3cm. Total height gained is 3.5 inches and they are letting me slow down my turns to alternating between 3 and 2 a day. So in a month at that rate I'll be at 5 cm and assess my situation. Ideally I'd like to get to the same as my Tibias which was 5.6-5.7cm. So I guess I'll be here for over a month. I also got some better pics comparing my father and I. I'll post once I wake up. I'm exhausted.

Thanks all

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Your comparison photos are really informative for us,thanks man.

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i had a lot of fun sending this pic to my sister and mom because the perspective makes me look huge.  But this is the first pic where my arms are straight on the walker and you can see that they don't look short for my body even at 9cm.  Without the walker my shoulders would drop and my hands are quite large so here's a good pic for proportion ideas until i can stand without the walker.

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Looking great man. Big contrast with your before photo. Hope everything heals up nicely.

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When I get home I'll show the pic that displays our actual height difference. I'm at pt now and I was in a rush when I posted the above photo. It's not an actual representation of our height difference. The angle of the photo makes it look like I'm a giant. I just wanted to show that my arms don't look bad at all even being lengthened this much.

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you look like you are 5'10 in that pic 
congratulations

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Here's the most accurate representation of my height.  And yeah my arms are bent so you can't infer any proportions from it.  I also have slight duckass because it's really tough keeping flexible after 9 cm.

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Looks good. 9 cm has never looked that much significant until now...

In anycase I have three sort of questions to ask:

1) How's consolidation on tibias going? Is that machine thing working out for ya?

2) How's it like "walking" when you have all four bone segments broken?

Lastly, have an idea of where your waist is at in that picture? I'm curious about that sort of thing is all.

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I'll know in a week and a half if my Tibias are consolidated. I actually stopped using the exogen after seeing my xrays last Tuesday. Reason being, although my Tibias werent x-rayed I saw the top of them fully formed and since I was dropping my turns to alternating 3 and 2 and possibly in the future to 2 turns a day I don't want my Tibias fully consolidated.  That way my femurs won't consolidate as quick.  I didn't realize they were going to form so fast but honestly who knows maybe where the X-ray cut off the gap begins and I really wasn't consolidating. If that's the case I'll get right back in the habit of using it.

Walking is tough because no muscles but I have all the tools at my disposal.
If you look at the bottom of my top look at the center theres a knot where I tied my shorts. It sort of pokes out. I guess that's where my waist is.