Übermensch - Internal femurs - Dr Guichet 2014

Hi guys!!

As promised I'm starting a diary on my limb lengthening in Italy.. I just made the payment to Dr. Guichet, so I guess there  is no way back now.. 
As I mentioned before, I'm 167cm, southern european, going for 7,5 cm..
I wanna thank Leechlet, Rebornmilan and ShyShy for the inspiration for my journey! 
I gonna try to be as honest as possible on this diary, talking about the things i do right, but probably mostly about my mistakes..   I will also try to make it as a complement for other diaries of patients of Dr. Guichet, trying to focus on stuff that wasn't mentioned before.

I'm already a week in Milan, staying at very cheap hostels.. spending never more than 20eur/night..
My first mistake was bringing my car.. I'm terribly car'aholic on my home country and I had some trouble imagining my self for 3 months without a car.. but the reality is that it brings much more trouble than benefits for this experience.. at least, after traveling 3 days by car across Europe you have lots of funny stories to entertain people at the hostel!! 
I have my operation schedule for the beginning of July and  I'm training 3 times a week at the Isokinetic center for being physically prepared for it (i train strength on the Cybex machine, flexibility, and triceps for the mobility after surgery..). Unfortunately there is no one limb lengthening right know in Milan, so, no one to share experiences.. 
On this first week I spent the remaining time looking for flats for the lenghtening period, making some exams/tests that i didn't did before arriving in Milan, spending time at the hostel chatting with staff and roommates (my cover story in the hostel and looking for flats is that I'm a football player recovering from injury on the knees, and having surgery to correct it..  .
My first surprise was that Dr. Guichet wants to complement/strenght my physic postoperative recovery program in the Isokinetic Center with training with Sergei (his guy from Marseille). According to him it will "allow controlling and optimizing the home care and other parameters", by this I understand that it will help me to have a better mobility postoperative, also, I know from former patients that he has been working with Dr. Guichet a long time, and they were very happy with his training..so I'm optimistic about this change! 
Dr. Guichet was also unimpressed by my motivation letter.. he says it is too superficial, and wants me to rewrite it.. He wants me to go deeper and specific on my reasons for limb lengthening.. I agree I was a bit superficial, it's not easy to talk about this kind of insecurities.. I imagine he wants to see the pain and the blood and use it as a tool for keeping me motivated during the lengthening phase.. of course I know exactly what he is talking about, otherwise I wouldn't be doing this.. is just that it is really hard to put on paper.. 

Dr. Guichet requires you to write a motivation letter?  Did he give you any requirements such as minimum length?

Awesome!!  I am planning to go with Guichet as well so I'll be following your diary closely!

yes another diary on LL Forum. gosh i wish i was there. it seems that some higher force is holding me back. every single day brings me less motivation to do LL. the wait just makes it worse. guichet didnt make u do the full 21 days of training? good luck man

Awesome!
Please put lots of pictures and videos!
All the best!

Dr.Guichet is one of the godfathers of modern LL and you in good hands! He wants the most motivated patients, hence he is extremely strict with his preoperative requirements. Nietzche's philosophy should help you during your treatment. All the best bro!

thank you for the support guys!!
for now there is not much to add to my diary.. Isokinetic sessions seem to be getting longer and harder as time goes, and although  i love the life in the hostel, i cannot wait to have my own flat or at least a room in milano!

Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on June 14, 2014, 06:48:04 PMDr. Guichet requires you to write a motivation letter?  Did he give you any requirements such as minimum length?

yep! he lists a bunch of topics that should be mentioned in the letter but don't remember if there was a minimum length.. mine was actually 3 pages long..

Quote from: connorcranston on June 15, 2014, 03:54:45 AMyes another diary on LL Forum. gosh i wish i was there. it seems that some higher force is holding me back. every single day brings me less motivation to do LL. the wait just makes it worse. guichet didnt make u do the full 21 days of training? good luck man

hi connorcranston! veterans LL use to say that if someone has doubts, then LL is not for him..  you must be completely sure and committed on LL to endure the process.. i hope my diary helps you making your mind about it.
i'm actually staying in milan before surgery a little more that 21 days (arrive in the 9...) .. but i'm only doing 3 sessions a week for a total of 9 sessions of training... notice that i'm only doing 7,5 cm and i already had some results form previous training (i'm already quite flexible and already improved a little my cybex results..)

oh im gonna get LL even if it kills me, literally. i rather die trying to be taller than live short and depressed for the rest of my life. i might not be able to do LL until 2015 now cause i had $9,000 in a retirement savings an if i take it out there take $2700 away, so now i have to work 2 more months to make up this. plus im pretty sure LL is gonna be more expensive in 2015 since they increase it every freakin year. the thing that motivates me the most to do LL is that i want something in life no one can take away from me. ppl can take ur money, family, material matter, etc from u but they can never take ur personal achievements/gains. i have 3 dreams that i want to achieve and one of them has been taking away from me forever, so that just makes me wanna obtain the 2 dreams i have. anyways dude how much is it costing u so far? i dont think i'm gonna even do the isokentic center for preop, maybe once or twice to see where im at cause 90euro is about 4 months of gym membership in usa.

hey guys i am planning to get it done by 2015 january. but i dnt want to stay after operation fr more than 3 months. as i have job here in india. then what to do? if i go for 7 cm, then would i be able to come after operation done and walk properly?

guys!
i have most of the exams done and the sessions in the Isokinetic center are the only thing going on now, so i start having spare time and nothing useful to do.
the search for an flat/room is the one thing that stresses me right now. the Isokinetic is located in a very central area o milan, the flats i have seen close to the isokinetic center are usually rented by tourists and located in old buildings, that means that is very difficult to find a flat without a few stair steps..
what do you veterans think about climbing 3 stair steps to access the falt just 4 days after the operation!?

connorcranston!
i think the king of thinking Guichet likes in limb lengthners is a strong resolution for doing it, but with realistic expectations for life after limb lengthening.. from what you posted i think you have both!
about the costs, i had a few costs over budget by now.. for instance: the trip with car was more expensive than i expected (+150euros), there was one exame (HIV) i was not expecting to do, but Guichet demanded it because by mistake it was not in the blood exame i brought from my home country, it costed me 72 euros (more than the all blood exams i took in my home country..
but i expect more costs over budget in the lengthening phase..

tdas1989!
3 months would be quite enough for lengthening 7 cm, which corresponds roughly to 2 months of lengthening.. specially if you fulfill the physical requirements of Dr. Guichet before arriving in milan, because that would mean no need for training at the Isokinetic center like the one i'm doing..
but 3 months to walk properly it may not be so easy, if at all possible.. after finishing lengthening you may need to walk on crunches for some time depending on how good is your recovery, and after leaving crunches your walking would still be strange for a while (the time varies form patient to patient..)
i would suggest you to read ShyShy diary in this forum, he did 7,5 cm and had a very fast recovery, but notice that he was extremely well prepared for surgery and his body had an excellent response to the all process