UNICORN - Dr. Guichet Internal Femurs 8cm - Summer 2016

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Quote from: Sweden on July 09, 2020, 11:56:24 AMAre you going to hurt Dr Guichet after all of this is done?

Weird that many recommended Dr G sooo much more than Dr Sarin in India but I went there, paid $15.000, got 7cm taller and now I’m living the dream. Yesterday I even signed a minor model contract. Height requirement were 180cm for men. That would have been impossible for me before LL.

I really wish you a fast recovery miss.
If you want Dr G to get hurt I’ll do it for you for $15.000 - plain business deal.

Let's not even create the slightest insinuation here that Sarin is a good, recommendable doctor.

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How are you feeling Unicorn? Any improvements? Your Instagram account is private now,much to my dismay since I don't have an account but last time I checked you posted your first day outside

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Quote from: Unicorn888 on July 10, 2020, 05:12:44 PMThough, to all you LLers out there who're suffering from complications or have been wronged, subjected to discrimination, unfair dismissals, judgements, criticisms, abandonment and ridicule from your circle of 'professional carers, friends, family and acquaintances'... this is a dream I most relish...

To find our perpetrators waking up in a very dark room, to the sound of IV drip, drip, dripping... into their arm. As they crane their necks and look around bewildered, they realize they're strapped to a hospital bed, wearing a hospital gown and not much else.

Their eyes slowly adjust to the darkness and come into focus. They realize they're lying in a dimly lit room alone, with just a rusty metal door at the far end, bolted shut and chains clanging away with the wind. And then, a dull ache starts to throb from their thighs...

Their heart starts to palpitate a little faster as they peek under their hospital gown and notice 3 fresh bandages where incisions might have been made. It's not clear to them yet what has happened but the locations of these 3 incisions do look familiar - one near the knee, one in the middle of the thigh and the last one, high on the hip.

It's slowly dawning on them now, what their current predicament stems from. Panic stricken, they start mumbling, "No, please no, this can't be real, please no! Let me wake up! This is just a nightmare..." And then, the pain intensifies... it's now flared from throbbing to burning. It feels like their legs are placed on a BBQ pit, lazily roasting away, combusting from the inside out.

Where are the damned painkillers? Why am I here? Where's the nurse? Where's the damned call button? Where is everybody? Someone, help!!! I can't move! Why is my bed rocking from left to right? And what's that howling noise outside my room?

Where am I???

If they could only see outside, but it won't be long before they figure out. If you ventured outside their 'room', it's actually a rusty old shipping container, no different from the thousands of containers stacked around them. And if you hopped down to the ship deck, you'll understand why the room was rocking with each wake. You're on a container ship hell bound to Angola.

The good news is by the time your friend gets there, he/she would be taller by 10cm...

Bruh I legit got goosebumps reading this. I love ur writing style! I hope you recover soon unicorn!

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Restoring this thread at Unicorn's request.

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Hi everyone,

I'm just moving our discussions back to the original thread so there's continuity of the story.

In July 2024, on the 6th day of trial before closing statements, in High Court in London, Defence agreed to all our demands:
A substantial sum for Damages + Legal Costs.

Can be read for free on the Daily Mail (but their reporting is far from accurate).
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13642509/High-flying-5ft-2in-banker-grew-5ft-6in-car-crash-leg-lengthening-surgery-left-one-limb-six-inches-longer-wins-payout-settles-1m-court-case-against-surgeon.html

Pictured here is my world class legal team, Solicitor David Turner from OMM Law, who believed in me and took on my case on conditional fee agreement, and Barrister & King's Counsel, Richard Baker who is absolutely brilliant and leaves no stone unturned.

I am so thankful to have Judge Anthony Metzer KC, who is intellectually curious to learn everything there is about such an unprecedented case, cosmetic leg lengthening.

And finally, we (several former Guichet patients) owe our lives to Ms Sarah Phillips at the NHS Kings College Hospital for her empathy and 'superhero' skills to repair us when we had no more hope. I use the word superhero because at one point, nobody knew how a 10cm non-union can be fused without shortening me to 0cm, but she MADE IT HAPPEN.

Each time I thought I had hit rock bottom, the rug got pulled out from under me, again and again and again. It would have been easier to simply give up after being crippled for so many years.

As much as I had experienced discrimination and derision, these past years also showed me more kindness and generosity from the most unexpected places and people. Namely the people mentioned above and all of you who had shown support and care throughout these last 8 dark years.

Read abt this family’s tribute to Yush Gupta's death (it happened just months after my 3rd surgery in Milan):
https://www.jezebel.com/stories-about-my-brother-1835651181

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I will never understand why such a beautiful woman decides to do such an operation

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Congrats, Unicorn. Hopefully, you can now have some closure on this horrendous ordeal.

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the state of the game, so to speak; for someone wanting to pursue limb lengthening in 2024, what would you say to them? As someone currently in this position, I'm torn between what I have to admit reeks of body dysmorphia and a desperation to go from 5'8 to 5'10 and feel average.

Do you believe this surgery should be a legitimate option for people like myself? Do you see it as a sliding scale, perhaps, in which it's worth it for people who are actually super short, and not for those closer to average height?

For me looking in, my biggest fears are those of non-union, which we know cannot be predicted, as well as being shafted by the doctor. Deeper than that, though, although I desire to, it seems like an inherently bad idea to try and treat BDD with surgery.

Many will disagree with me that the want to do LL lines up with BDD, and take the stance that they're simply "identifying a problem and fixing it", but it has to be deeper than that, surely.