Quote from: goldenegg on September 16, 2016, 07:30:07 PMhi unicorn sorry to hear about your complication, but glad to hear you are ok! you're a tough cookie and stick to your goals as long as the doctor says it's safe to do so. hopefully it will just be a small setback for a lifetime of height gain when you look back on it later. hang in there!
Thanks Goldenegg, yes, I've to compartmentalize every setback 
Finishing right leg is a triumph. Then, it's full speed bone healing supplements so that I can start on the left leg and get off crutches on the right.
Aside from the trauma and time loss, it ain't so bad to do it one at a time because you're taking less risk of falling etc, as much more stable and mobile.
That's how I have to look at it. The xrays came back on my second repair surgery, and as Guichet boasted to me, it is a work of art... perfection! He may be absentminded, a sadist, a fear monger, has no bedside manners, but he's a very very good surgeon. Imagine, my curved femur was shaved flat, rod placed right in the centre, affixed with 2 very large older version nails. All stabilised now.
I think it's important to have a surgeon who can REPAIR and FIX all situations with experience. He's not a cosmetic LL to begin with. After seeing me in the hospital at 10pm, he rushed out to a hotel to see an 11 year old girl who was born with twisted bonsai legs and no ankles 
. So, his expertise is fixing and that gives me more comfort. Besides, while he's always running around like a mad hatter, it shows a lot of passion and empathy (he might not be the most vocal and charming, but his gestures do demonstrate a lot - ESP THE TOUGH LOVE!!! 
).
I can now do 200 reps of everything on the left (carefully) so as to rebuild all my muscles so that I can stand weight bearing on it (not yet but soon hopefully).
Also, pelvis is a bit skewed upwards, so am walking with ONE 16m GOTH BOOT with skulls, bat wings, studs and all BAD ASS accoutrements (I LOVE IT!), and one flat Ugg boot to match both legs (10cm for pelvic skew and 6cm for lengthening difference). But I add 10lbs ankle weights on the left so that I can slowly pull my pelvis down before it becomes permanent scoliosis (scary word!!!! Sounds like a cross between scabies, rabies, polio, leprosy, lupus, apotheosis...)
Have a good evening, need to finish up my 200s. Doc G gives you an exercise book to do 10 exercises 10 times of 20 reps each. What a pain in the ass!
So I just do 50 reps 4 times a day. No patience to do 10 times. I can't even count that far... 
UNICORN - Dr. Guichet Internal Femurs 8cm - Summer 2016
Quote from: Unicorn888 on September 13, 2016, 08:27:21 PMBecause my G-nail was clicked to 3cm before I got my bone fracture (it was like a tyre puncturing, I lost the 3cm length gained). So the G-nail has only 7cm more to click (it comes at 10cm max). So I'll match my good leg to 7cm and be happy.
The other alternative was, doc removes the G-nail and inserts a new one with a new 10cm length. But it's a more complicated, invasive surgery than I want to handle.
And I saw the xray of the shaved bone and new nailing - it's perfect! He actually corrected my curved femur for free. Like LL comes with free bow leg or pigeon toe or limb difference correction
I think 7 cm are very fine for you cute girl! 
Was correction totally free? Or did you have to pay anesthesia and hospital fees?
Would you like to post Xrays?
Quote from: LLuser1 on September 21, 2016, 04:14:40 PMI think 7 cm are very fine for you cute girl!
Was correction totally free? Or did you have to pay anesthesia and hospital fees?
Would you like to post Xrays?
Yes, doc confirmed today. 7cm is max for me as luckily enough my left leg actually is longer than my right naturally.
NOT totally free, it was a gimmick. He charged me hospital and anaesthetist fees...
I don't mind, my bones are pretty anonymous, how do I do it, can I send it to one of you to host it?
Quote from: Unicorn888 on September 21, 2016, 08:06:14 PMhow do I do it, can I send it to one of you to host it?
This thread covers how to post images on the forum: http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=2183.0
The moment of truth... 
Fracture Image & Corrective Surgery
LEFT & RIGHT Nails Post Corrective Surgery
Right Femur at 6cm Distraction Gap
That first image is painful just to look at. Ouch. The x-ray after corrective surgery looks great though. Glad he took care of it for you.
Quote from: KiloKAHN on September 22, 2016, 05:37:52 PMThat first image is painful just to look at. Ouch. The x-ray after corrective surgery looks great though. Glad he took care of it for you.
He's a genius surgeon, but boy, bad bedside manners! He told me at first to exercise more and increase my clicks! It was 6 days before discovering it was a fracture and not fast bone consolidation!
I told him I was in deep pain and that I needed a morphine patch. He's like, "No! 10 more clicks for you per day!"
And I did finish all the clicks + 10, but they took like 6 hours and the sound was not a CLACK anymore, it was like snapping a KitKat in two To this day, I don't know how I survived those 6 days!
This is Guichet in a nutshell.
Guichet did a perfect job. Perhaps you had the same initial problem than Musicmaker (eggshell iatrogenic fracture caused a larger fracture) but Guichet is an expert surgeon and he could fix it. MM's case was a disaster. She needed at least five surgeries just to fix that leg. In cases like yours you can see who the good surgeon is.
You took the best of decisions. Congratulations
Perhaps Ghichet is a moneymaker as other LL surgeons but he has better bedside manners than others. I'm sure he didn't call you his bitch or motherfker like the Spanish surgeon with his male and female patients alike, Cooper, Musicmaker and the teenage patient. That kind of 'humor' (as they call it now) is unacceptable in this profession.
Quote from: LLuser1 on September 22, 2016, 07:44:15 PMGuichet did a perfect job. Perhaps you had the same initial problem than Musicmaker (eggshell iatrogenic fracture caused a larger fracture) but Guichet is an expert surgeon and he could fix it. MM's case was a disaster. She needed at least five surgeries just to fix that leg. In cases like yours you can see who the good surgeon is.
You took the best of decisions. Congratulations
Perhaps Ghichet is a moneymaker as other LL surgeons but he has better bedside manners than others. I'm sure he didn't call you his bitch or motherfker like the Spanish surgeon with his male and female patients alike, Cooper, Musicmaker and the teenage patient. That kind of 'humor' (as they call it now) is unacceptable in this profession.
No, Guichet really cares about his patients. He's more like a nagging strict DAD figure. He gets ANGRY when you're disobedient (in his French translation, "non-compliant") and nothing is ever good enough for him. As I said, it's all TOUGH LOVE. But it's love and passion for his job nevertheless. This week alone, I saw 2 very young and very BRAVE kids who were born with leg defects waiting with us to see him. Made us all really shameful, talking so vainly about not being tall enough...and wingeing all the time
He insists on seeing you himself for at least once every fortnight and each check-up includes YANKING and a good SCOLDING (and lasts FOREVER - it's not one of those 5 min courtesy face time). We know because we all compare notes. If you're crutching really well, he'll be asking disapprovingly, "Why are you still using crutches, walk walk! Or you're gonna be paralysed forever!"
Or during the first 2 weeks of surgery, I ran out of codeine and begged him for more, and he's like, "You're committing suicide with codeine, what a waste of your long legs!" So one of our classmate's mum became our designated drug mule, she procures them in France and we share the loot 
like desperate drug junkies.
He replies to everything himself and many times with a very dry sense of humour which can be easily lost in translation.
When the guy, Kenny Baker, who was R2D2 sadly died recently, I sent Guichet a text saying a new role just opened up for me in Star Wars and he replied, "Not really... unless the new R2D2 has one long and one short leg...!" 
He has his faults too. He's disorganised and is always running late. He never gets your test results on time (so we help ourselves by asking for result duplicates at each clinic). That way, we'll have results with us when sitting in front of him during our consultations (he will be indignant but we don't care!).
My friend almost fainted when he used my iPhone photo to view my fractured bone because (again!) he had tech issues and didn't have the image on his PC. This was the night before my corrective surgery. So my friend asked him, "Would you like to borrow this phone during surgery tomorrow?" 
He declared yesterday, he's going to take us all out for dinner. My classmates and I are plotting a strip club surprise. We can already envision him using his medical joint angle ruler to measure stripper hip and knee extensions and flexions. He's going to lecture the lap dancer about her risk of getting lordosis, and the pole dancer, scoliosis. He might even recommend the latest clinical-grade knee pads!! 
Quote from: Unicorn888 on September 22, 2016, 06:25:06 PMHe's a genius surgeon, but boy, bad bedside manners! He told me at first to exercise more and increase my clicks! It was 6 days before discovering it was a fracture and not fast bone consolidation!
I told him I was in deep pain and that I needed a morphine patch. He's like, "No! 10 more clicks for you per day!"
And I did finish all the clicks + 10, but they took like 6 hours and the sound was not a CLACK anymore, it was like breaking a KitKat in two To this day, I don't know how I survived those 6 days!
This is Guichet in a nutshell.
Six days with that fracture sounds awful. Do you think having been through that that the rest of your lengthening days should feel easier as compared to lengthening before the fracture occurred?
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