Quote from: Body Builder on June 06, 2017, 10:12:08 PMUnicorn, I truly believe that you should stop lengthening your good foot at 5cm to finish it successfully and to stop be in pain and keep taking drugs.
Then you should compress the other foor at 5 cm, do a bone graft and see if it works. If still there is not callus, you should compress it at zero cm and when callus start to formate then you should slowly lengthen it too at 5cm.
There is no other solution for you. You just lose your time waiting for bone fusion with 7-8 cm gap! This can't happen.
Stop lengthening at 5cm on your good foot, which is a good gain, and then put all your effort to fix the non union. In the worst situation you'll fully compress it and then lengthen it again.
Everything can be fixed just find a good doctor and take out this bs nail that Guichet uses and then compress the bone.
Be strong, with a good doctor things will take time but for sure you'll be ok at the end.
Completely agree with this. Unicorn, at this point, we want you to get your life back. 5cm is 2 whole inches, and I can tell you that even just 2 inches makes a big difference. Plus you're a woman, so you'll end up at 5'4" which is totally fine! I completely understand and respect your decision to get LL, but since height really isn't nearly as important for women as it is men, at this point, you need to put your health first.
Wish you nothing but the best!
UNICORN - Dr. Guichet Internal Femurs 8cm - Summer 2016
5 cm is a good gain but I can understand why Unicorn88 isn't happy. Getting LL for 5 cm is hard, but this whole nightmare and all that money for 5 cm? I feel sad when I see people spending their whole fortunes like Unicorn, Musicmaker, Cooper, Masterhy.. only for some cm and having so bad complications.
UNICORN.
I think you have to tell the truth to a member of your family. (The one you trust most)
In my opinion there is no shame to have to reveal the truth, even more so when you do this surgery for a real problem of size.
You need emotional help from someone you like very much. Best friend, Your brother... I don't know but if this person don't know the truth he can't give you support you need ! You need a natural person who knows the truth for help/support you in this trials.
5'4 " is a very good size for a woman. I'm not saying that to convince you. This is the truth : 5'4'' is a normal size for a woman.
Quote from: Datum on June 10, 2017, 11:37:24 PM5 cm is a good gain but I can understand why Unicorn88 isn't happy. Getting LL for 5 cm is hard, but this whole nightmare and all that money for 5 cm? I feel sad when I see people spending their whole fortunes like Unicorn, Musicmaker, Cooper, Masterhy.. only for some cm and having so bad complications.
I believe that Unicorn is not happy with all she have been through.
If you had so much problems it doesn't matter if you lengthened 5 or 8 cm.
Women over 5 fr don't need at all LL. Being tall is not a benefit for women as it is for men.
Many men (like me) find short women much sexier than taller ones but hardly any woman finds short men sexy as hardly any man find fat women hot.
So LL is a bad decision for women but Unicorn have done it and 5 cm is a very good gain so there is no reason to go over that after all these problems.
And when she stops lengthening successfully her right foot she should fix the other one by shortening it and try to promote bone growth.
Lengthening more than 5cm her right foot will just make things much harder for the other, non aligned, foot. I hope she listens to my advice and have a good result at the end.
She worths it after all that happened to her due to bad lack and Guichet's faults.
Hi Unicorn, I am so sorry about your latest updates and I'm glad you've found a non-cosmetic LL doctor to treat your case. honestly, it seems like dr. G was no longer able well equipped to treat your complications and continuing would've been additional money wasted.
on the positive side, the callus in your shorter leg does look pretty good. I'm really hoping for you the day when you can return to a normal, but taller life after all you've been through.
Hey Guys,
I heard a story of a girl back in January around the twenties of 2017 that one of Guichet patients had fractured one of her legs and now she needs to wait to lengthen it.
I never knew this diary existed in the first place. Me personally considering to do it with Guichet decided to read on some diaries and as I was reading in other diaries a lot of people mentioned her name and story so I was curious and ended up on this page. I spent about 7 hours reading through the whole thing.
I broke..... I haven't gotten to that level of feeling sad, emptiness and having tears run out of my eyes from reading something before. This was the first time. The whole story of how she was happy, rich, energetic and optimistic to becoming so self-hatred, lonely, depressed and in debt was like one of those hard slaps that really brings you back to reality. Hey, not everything goes the way you want it. In my mind I was thinking about the stories we hear about rich people losing all their fortune, going bankruptcy and ending up either homeless or in jail after having it all. Take nothing for guaranteed for sure. Live, enjoy and appreciate every moment, the unexpected can happen. However, it did give me a sign of relief as I was having some cognitive dissonance as to go through this surgery with Guichet or not. I have found my answer. I slept very sad and feeling some hole in my heart but woke up very energetic and appreciative of what I have and told my self, "don't be dumb". Will I do this surgery? Maybe. Probably not with Guichet. Unicorn you are an adult aging 40. I am pretty sure you should know by now that sadness doesn't last. 1 year or two years from now could be a scary thought for you as you are still not sure and unknown of what's going to happen. I know for a fact that most humans are scared of the unknown. But do you think after the years pass and you are walking again, tall and happy, after you have passed this miserable hardship you are in, would you be feeling the same as now? Probably not. Would you proud of how sad or depressed you were? Maybe. Who knows. I have never posted before, but I took time to make an account and tell you this. Pull through you are not a child anymore, my heart, our hearts are with you. Don't blame other people, it is a human instinct to want the best for yourself after all. How would you react if it was another patient and your surgery went smooth? Don't call people evil. Go back to your old self, be energetic, be happy, no guy would date someone so miserable. What happens if you had a car accident and couldn't walk? You still think you wouldn't get married or have kids? That's not realistic at all. I know lots of disabled people(my brother is) and they end up falling in love and getting married.
You have accomplished a lot already, be proud. It is not your fault, but neither it is the fault of others.
I have made a go fund me page for you and shared your story there with this post. If you would like me to take it down, let me know.
Here's the link: https://funds.gofundme.com/dashboard/unicorns-journey. If anyone would like to donate, go ahead.
Edit: I noticed Guichet is always having new secretaries that keep leaving him? Any ideas?
hey unicorn?
how things are going?
hope for the better news...
Hi all,
Lilguy, trust me, I'm not blaming the entire world for what happened to me, it's all wholly 100% my fault. I blamed my height for everything that is wrong in my life. I thought if I were taller, everything would be better. I didn't do enough research and I didn't think long and hard enough about the risks. I just simply assumed that I would be special enough that none of the complications would apply to me.
I was wrong.
So since I last updated on this post, I had found out that my accidental clicking on my right leg continued until approximately 9.78cm (!!!). That was an unwelcomed bombshell because yet again, the worst of my nightmares keep materializing. The last thing a non-union person like myself needs is additional height and gap.
My left leg is currently at 7.8cm and I've slowed down the lengthening to only about 0.4mm per day. I know many of you advise that I stop the lengthening and shorten the gap. However, I'm currently without much guidance. So I'm just trying to match both lengths until I get a solution.
In the meantime, my body is bent out of shape. My left leg currently cannot straighten flat and there's severe valgus inwards (I cannot put much weight on it as my toes are turned inwards). I'm suffering from scoliosis as well and cannot lie flat in bed. I'm just hoping that all these are temporary and will eventually disappear once the lengthening process ends. Which won't happen until mid September at my current rate.
Sleeping has been hard and I do depend on sleeping pills because my legs get sore every 5 minutes in the same position and I spend hours tossing and turning.
I've had time to take stock of my life, and I know that right now, I've lost quite a lot compared to the me 12 months ago. Only one of two things can happen. Either I capitulate, accept my disabled fate and become a beneficiary of everyone's pity or I fight back and become the tall winner that I aspired to be.
As shallow as it sounds, it's a tall order to regain my life...: I cannot even walk right now, I'm hunched over from severe duck ass, I live on a measly budget, I've tried interviewing for jobs but the latest one ended in rejection (who would hire a hunched back like me who hobbles around and pants with each step! I'm monstrous), I've lost a lot of self confidence, I've gained weight I can't fit into my clothes (we're talking a good 10kg), I'm so ungroomed (yes LilGuy, NOBODY would marry me, much less look at me twice...) and the worst thing is... I'm scared to venture out of my house. I shy away from friends as I don't want to deal with questions and sympathy anymore.
Is that how people slide into the abyss? One thing leads to another and soon enough, the world has moved on and you're left far behind in the dust. When I think about how I've to find a way to live until I'm old, I shudder. At 42, I've nothing to my name. People are married with kids, have supportive partners, have grown roots. I'm a mere tumbleweed. Here today, gone tomorrow, leaving no mark.
Anyway, I wanted to do something positive for people who're considering leg lengthening and can't fully fathom what it entails. So I'm going to post all the photos I had taken during my journey a year ago on https://www.instagram.com/unicorn_gets_taller/. At least that way, my journey has not gone to waste and you'll have visuals to accompany my diary here.
Based on what I've read in this diary, Guichet is responsible for most if not all of your hardships. Of course, as LL patients we accept some risk and accountability but it seems like he took as much advantage of you as possible.
I'm confused about your current situation: are you going to click the shorter leg till it matches the gap of almost 10cms? I'm no doctor but that sounds like the worst possible thing to do considering the non union.
Quote from: Penguinn on July 17, 2017, 07:08:43 PMBased on what I've read in this diary, Guichet is responsible for most if not all of your hardships. Of course, as LL patients we accept some risk and accountability but it seems like he took as much advantage of you as possible.
I'm confused about your current situation: are you going to click the shorter leg till it matches the gap of almost 10cms? I'm no doctor but that sounds like the worst possible thing to do considering the non union.
I don't know yet, I'm confused too. I've a first NHS interview on Friday to see if my case can be accepted by them. If yes, then at least I'll know what to do.
I had seen Guichet 3x since my surgery in April, and he wanted me to continue. Without much guidance, I'm really really lost.
I'm really scared I might never walk again. I understand from the NHS doctors that in the worst possible scenario, they can do a coral, bone chip paste and graft it on the gap and apparently that works well, if there're no other complications like infections etc.
So my journey is definitely not ended yet. Little did I know a year ago that I would be in this horrible situation one year later, barely able to stand and leaning hard on a hollow scaffold.
I would NEVER have done this surgery if I had even the slightest inkling what lay in store for me.
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