Right now I am working fully from home. I started like 4 weeks after surgery to work. I have to admit my ability to concentrate isn’t as good as before and I think I don’t have the sharpness in thinking right now. But I totally blame the medication especially the pain meds. They make tired and hard to think sometimes. I can choose myself how I do the working hours from home just need to get the fixed hours per week done, so that makes it a lot easier to get work done and when the meds make you tired just give up and sleep, because that will power is sometimes needed somewhere else.
I stretch daily around 90min - 120min. But that’s just the netto stretching time. If you add the „just a bit of podcast until the next stretch“ or the position changes it can add up real fast. For me in actual time it takes around 135min - 180min. But that depends on how motivated I am and how I slept lol.
Yes 8cm is a huge difference and I feel it a lot. I feel it every time I stand to other people I know, standing next to a car or also just these simple things at the supermarket when looking for the highest row. I think the difference from going to very short to just short or near to normal is huge step and improvement of quality in life. Now it’s not that 90% of the people are bigger than you and you can totally feel it. It’s such a good and nice feeling I really can’t describe it. I started at 157 and I am currently at around 165. I am really glad I did this surgery and were brave enough to go through this.
Dr Becker does a really really good job. I am glad I choose him. Also the after care is great. I can always ask questions, if I need something they do their best to help me. The check up on me. How the process goes, flexibility, pain and so on, on fixed dates (every 3 weeks) and on random occasions. And there were times I used that offer of course. There is also an app for the stretches to save your progress, and also you can see your statistics how tall you are when and so on. So it’s like 10/10 how everyone should do it. So I can totally recommend him. But I have to say, it’s still a big process. You have to imagine they break your legs and put a metal rod in, then you stretch your legs out. Every muscles, nerve, skin and so on is stretched. So the process will contain pain and patience. And if you „fight“ with these things, the least thing you want to fight is that you are not able to walk during lengthening and loose your all day life and environment (for me that would be a really big mental challenge). I mean try it out, stay in bed 3 days without walking… and the possibility of non-union because you are not bearing weight on your leg, which is needed for bone growth. That were the reasons I did it with dr Becker and also choose a weight bearing nail. Totally recommend him, if I do tibia I’ll go 100% with him again.
