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

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I've contacted Dr Shah and the supplier of the IM nails (Cure Surgical whose representative is Priyancka Qazi) to say that I'm not going through with my plans. Not a judgement on them but me feeling that I don't want to go across the world on another adventure like I've already had.

Also my mother's against it and was against me doing the first one, although I didn't tell her about it until I came home part-way through. I still do things she's always been against, like being a blood donor. Much better to put the money for this into her own wellbeing and that of insurance for myself.

Richard M Nixon lost his campaign for President of the US in 1960 and then lost another campaign for the Governor of California in 1962. Then he said: "Defeat does not finish a man; quitting does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."

I quit.

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I've put down $US41000 ($30000 for devices, $5000 refundable deposit, $6000 import duties) and booked my travel to Mumbai for 3 October. The PRECICE 2 IM nails should be there by the time I arrive. 8cm maximum, on femurs.

This will be a surprise to you all.

At this stage any tips or recommendations for accomodation in Mumbai would be appreciate and ANY LL'ERS/LL-wannabes WHO MAY BE IN INDIA FROM OCTOBER ONWARD SHOULD MESSAGE ME.

Yes it's official ..  the Double Down is back on.

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Quote from: Thegosis on August 25, 2015, 08:55:42 PMI've put down $US41000 ($30000 for devices, $5000 refundable deposit, $6000 import duties) and booked my travel to Mumbai for 3 October. The PRECICE 2 IM nails should be there by the time I arrive. 8cm maximum, on femurs.

This will be a surprise to you all.

At this stage any tips or recommendations for accomodation in Mumbai would be appreciate and ANY LL'ERS/LL-wannabes WHO MAY BE IN INDIA FROM OCTOBER ONWARD SHOULD MESSAGE ME.

Yes it's official ..  the Double Down is back on.

Good for you! I also plan on 8cm in femurs.
I'm a Mumbai resident who plans on doing LL in early 2016. Isn't Dr. Shah in Delhi?

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Quote from: Thegosis on August 25, 2015, 08:55:42 PMI've put down $US41000 ($30000 for devices, $5000 refundable deposit, $6000 import duties) and booked my travel to Mumbai for 3 October. The PRECICE 2 IM nails should be there by the time I arrive. 8cm maximum, on femurs.

This will be a surprise to you all.

At this stage any tips or recommendations for accomodation in Mumbai would be appreciate and ANY LL'ERS/LL-wannabes WHO MAY BE IN INDIA FROM OCTOBER ONWARD SHOULD MESSAGE ME.

Yes it's official ..  the Double Down is back on.



Good for you, best luck!

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Dr Suhas Shah is at the Ashwinii Accident Hospital of Mumbai. Not New Delhi.

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Thank you for the benefit of that experience KK. I have received my six month tourist visa in the last week and it is for multiple entries commencing from its issued date of 10 September 2015. I had applied for a twelve month visa, also with multiple entries, but that was denied perhaps because I have never been to their country before.

I'm departing Sydney, Australia around noon on Friday 2 October and will first arrive (via Singapore layover) to Hyderabad at 1230am on Saturday. I'll depart Hyderabad at 0725 that day coming into the international airport of Mumbai at 845am. That same morning I'll meet Dr Shah in his clinic and later check in at a Hotel in the Maharacrapra District that is about 3km away. If all goes to plan the surgery can be done in the week of 5-9 October.

The import application for the PRECICE IM nail devices has been approved. The hope is that they get in the hands of the surgeon before I arrive and to assist that I have been tasked to provide bio stats and measurements of my femurs from xrays. These were:

 1. Circumference of each thigh at the groin
 2. Minimum and maximum bone canal diameters for each, both medial/lateral and anterior/posterior [1.2cm minimum for me]
 3. Thigh bone length [34-35cm, each one]
 4. My weight [at an all time high of about 92 kilos]

Cure Surgical is the agent in India for the import and distribution for the device from the manufacture PRECICE in the USA. I first started dealing with a Ms Priyancka Qazi at New Delhi for the import application and now it is a Mr Maxi Pereira of the same company that I'm dealing with. He's told me that a rep and product manager from PRECICE named Chris Yunker will be coming over (from the US?) specificly for me and the surgeon as it's a somewhat of a pioneering occurence for this doctor and the Indian market to do things by means of purely internal telescopic rod.

https://www.facebook.com/AshwiniiHospital/ Ashwinii Hospital on Facebook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPKQ55qkFb0 Demonstration of magnetic lengthing using the PRECICE features Dr Rozbruch

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Head office for Cure Surgical in New Delhi, India:

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Maxi Pereira from Cure Surgical in Mumbai has just informed me re the PRECICE IM nails: "We have placed the order for material and other paraphernalia . We should have the shipment with us by 6-7th Oct 2015. The proposed date of surgery is 14th Oct 2015 . Dr Shah is blocked this date in his calendar."

So I will have between 3 and 14 October in Mumbai, or other place I may choose to visit, to amuse myself.

Any suggestions?

I will stay at the Hotel Alma Court for my first two nights after arrival in Mumbai (http://hotelarma.com/arma_court.html)

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In Mumbai, go to Phoenix Mills in Lower Parel if you're very bored. Pretty American place.

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Quote from: Thegosis on February 03, 2015, 04:29:20 AMI may have confirmed elsewhere that $USD30000 is the price for the kit of PRECISE nail, and that is a worldwide rule.

The answer for India is a little different. It will be $US30k for the kits and there will also be another 10% for 'customs and taxes' and then also "5000 US dollars is deposit for magnetic device you will be using for 90 days and then you return to them they will return the deposit". This from Dr Shah directly.

So I'm currently arranging the method to make an up to $38k payment to Ellipse to have the hardware made available to the surgeon. When that's done I can count off 5 to 6 weeks for when I should plan to arrive in India.

I asked Dr Shah another question to which I'm surprised by the answer. I enquired the "maximum extenstion and weightbearing capacity of the nail" to which he replied "Approximately you can take 25 kg if you use the 10.7 mm Precice 2 nail". I think this must be the answer for one nail/leg, because I swear some other LLers have said that it is 150lb for the pair. But 25kg for one is just 110lb for the pair: 20lb per wrist more being borne by arms on a walking frame. Does it sound accurate or way too conservative?

India has high import taxes for absolutely everything. It's why you end up actually spending more on buying something like a high def tv over there than you would elsewhere like in the USA. Might I ask how you came to the decision of choosing Dr. Shah over other doctors in India like Parihar or someone else?