The Double Down - Dr Suhas Shah, Mumbai - Femurs by PRECICE II, Oct 2015

I've taken the first irrevocable step to do this now and not later. As I paid down the debt from the previous venture in the first week of January and the rehabilitation of my walking form did not miss a beat during the holiday season, I started to look into the logistics of a second procedure by the femurs that would bring me from 5'9 to 6'0 thereabouts. Another procedure would bring me into the rare club of those who've lengthened both sections of their legs or gone beyond 10cm total.

And last night I cast the dice. I paid a stranger $340 for her $608 unused credit with Air Asia which will get me across the Indian Ocean and mostly back .. if the bookings are made within 3 months. I also emailed Dr Shah with a request for him to authorise the hospital's letter which will underly my application for a 12 months medical visa (up to 3 entries) to the Government of India. I've also prepared the visa application as far as that can be done at this stage.

So this means that if the letter comes and the visa issues in the normal course and the PRECICE nails are available and the flight at the right price comes up then I can be back on the torture rack and growing taller again by the stroke of my birthday #44 toward the end of next month. That's a few 'if's but this is going to happen one way or another. I've seen Sydney-Hyderabad promotional fares for $AUD354.

If anyone would like to help me out, India veterans particularly, let me know which other documents are required to support the application for medical visa; and also how should I get the whole way from where I am to where I'm going. Mumbai appears as an Air Asia destination acknowledged at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirAsia_Group_destinations but not at all by their online booking engine. What's a recommended way to get from Hyderabad to Mumbai, including train.

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I briefly considered or favoured going back to Beijing for thigh externals due to my strong faith in Drs Zhao and Peng. I decided against it or rather in favour of Mumbai for a few short reasons. Mainly, they stop at 4-5cm and I'd like to see myself handle 7+. Further, those monorails mean that you can't swim or shower and can't lay on your side and they're a lesser technology overall. Finally I see the struggles and complications of those going that way as documented in places like this forum and the observation of Beijing patient LittleLiam(tm) that the femur patients who were there when he arrived were still there when he left.

I'm really excited to see a doctor Shah diary! Keep us posted!

http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=178.0
There's the link to the predecessor of this, my Beijing adventure from November 2013 through June 2014 & followup.

I've had it suggested to me that if I start next month I'll be the -first- foreign patient taking PRECICE in India. Could that be truly true??

Good luck.

-Why did you decide to do a second operation?

-How is your recovery from the first op?

-How much will you do in total?

hey thegosis, what about proportions? , do you think you will look fine with a torso of a 167cm boy in 183cm of height? can you post any photo of your actual proportions?

Can you share why you rationally selected India?

Perhaps I possess prejudices, but the idea of traveling to India, Africa, or Russia for a discount surgery seems preposterous. (I mean no disrespect, honestly)

Quote from: Bohemia on January 25, 2015, 10:53:10 PMCan you share why you rationally selected India?

Perhaps I possess prejudices, but the idea of traveling to India, Africa, or Russia for a discount surgery seems preposterous. (I mean no disrespect, honestly)

The deal with India is not poverty per se, but economic inequality. These surgeries are done in the wealthiest parts of India at hospitals that rival the healthcare standards of most developed nations. Essentially, the reason that these surgeries are discount are not that they are of sub-par quality, but that American dollars are very valuable in India compared to the ruppe.

I just measured my wingspan at 176cm+. Just before going into surgery was the first time I even discovered that my wingspan overshot my height by a substantial amount. So, yeh, didn't even concern me in the slightest. I'd even estimated measurements that way (eg. 3 x me = 5m, when its actually 1/3 of a metre more) & never ever measured myself in that dimension.  I'd have to make it to 185.5cm to rate  as overproportioned as I was underproportioned at the kickoff. So I'm good.

In all practical senses your arms are never too short unless you had to contort yourself to reach to the bottom of a hip pocket. That wouldn't seem to happen in our consideration (longer jeans, deeper pockets I s'pose, but only by a smidge).

In that sense I've never bought into the agonising over 'proportions' that we don't have to go too far to see around here. I can't think of an actress or an athlete whose image was killed for me by having short arms.

Well I've already done it with ('third world' country) China & been satisfied with the results, so that doesn't dispose me to writing a whole country off the map.