I'm not regretful however anyone might interpret a post on a forum.
I still feel short in many situations. Depending on how I recover from my first surgery I might not do my femurs.
I think I'm already at the upper limit of what I can get away with since my height is equal to my wingspan now.
Adding 5cm could make me look very weird maybe.
Bilateral, you're right. It ain't eazy bein' short and it takes a lot of strength like you say. I'm of Hispanic ethnicity and maybe I'm not expected to be as tall as Caucasians but it is still hard to deal with it.
Quote from: Leonardo2013 on November 20, 2013, 05:21:12 PMBilateral, you're right. It ain't eazy bein' short and it takes a lot of strength like you say. I'm of Hispanic ethnicity and maybe I'm not expected to be as tall as Caucasians but it is still hard to deal with it.
Aren't there white Hispanics, too? They count as Caucasian.
5 cm
they told me that I gained 5cm, I was so happy to hear that..
5cm without nerve issue " i feel very little numbness in my right foot though" it's a good thing that's mean I can go easily to 10 cm "hope so"
also,this mean I'm 158-157cm right now so I'll hit 160cm sooon 
and I'll be an average emirati women
it was 2 days ago.. I went to hospital to have my regular x-ray , to adjust the alignment of my femur and to do knee manipulation for the stiffness
they took blood test, then at 2 pm I was in operating room,
the doctor gave me a mask and told me to breath normally it just air, he said..
few seconds later I was in a deep sleep.. so I don't know what they did 
" although I remembered something happened in the OR but I'm not sure if it was reality or dream, I remembered that my phone started to ring in the middle of the operation when the doctors tried to find it to make it silent..after that doctors started laughing . maybe it was just a dream 
I wake up after about an hour and they asked me if I'm fine and I replied by yes.. but I taste something horrible in my mouth... then few minutes later I started crying loudly there was pain in one of pin site they gave me injection and told me to relax, to be honest I don't know if the pain was too much and to be accurate I felt worse than this pain in the past without shed a tear but I think I just want to cry at that time , it's funny how physiology play a vital role in controlling pain ..
so they shifted me to room "i don't know what they call this room" and one of the Dr came and asked me if I'm good and he told me that they did knee manipulation and everything is good he told me to smile too
few minutes later they brought shorty he did his surgery at the same day.. he looked good, better than me actually,.. ! I remember when I did my LL surgery I felt so cold and i was shaking i was barley could say few words, but not shorty I can hear him talk to the doctor and nurse so easily..
Dr rah came and told that everything went fine in the operation and he adjust the alignment then he asked me if I feel pain and I point to the pin site that it hurts he told me then that he didn't do anything with this pin site except clean it, cuz it had lot of dirt... it seems my daily cleaning and dressing is ineffective .. he told me that they'll shift me to my room to watch tv in next 5min..
anyway so I spent about 36hours in hospital .. I felt so tired maybe because of the Anastasia or maybe because it's a hospital .. at 8pm the pt came to my room and told me bend my knee but I couldn't bent it for more than 40 deg .. before the surgery I was something like 10-15deg.. and it's important to mention that my bending getting worse with distraction that what I noticed..
I couldn't sleep at that night so nurse gave me a sleeping injection , but I couldn't sleep either for more than two hours...
in next day ,at the afternoon the pt came for the exercise and he let me set to edge of the bed then he hanged my legs I started to cry back then and shouting to him to put a chair under my feet ... it was really painful .. he kept telling me that he'll bring a chair after 3min, but after one min one of the pin site started bleeding so he stooped and bring the chair.. I felt much better at that time, anyway he told to set for 15min 3times a day ...
at 6 pm the Dr Rah came to assure that everything fine with me before discharge ... he told me too that if I notice any color changing in my skin "like if it turns to blue", or if I couldn't move my toes , I have to stop distraction and call him immediately..
Also, he advised me that I should stop at 10cm because he doesn't wants me to suffer from major complications, but if everything went fine till 10cm I could complete lengthening but he said we have to be more conscious and maybe we will change the rate of number of turn after 10cm..
I told him that I still cant bend my knee for 90 deg, and he said it's fine but I have to keep exercising, but no walking or standing till I'll finish the distraction phase ..
then I discharged and I went back to hotel... I felt much better in hotel, today there was almost no pain except in the one of the pin site ...
and tmw I'll continue the distraction again .. it's good to give your body break even if it was just 2 days
why this post is too long 
this is my last x-ray... note this x-ray has been taken before the operation 
Great x-rays, and thank you for updating us!! This diary is really interesting to read, so please update as often as you can.
Wow! You are already half way to your goal!
Thanks for keeping us updated and posting your X-rays.
Hey Dis, great to hear from you. Glad your doing well and in good spirits.
Was there an additional cost for the realignment of your femurs?
When you bend your knee is it just a painless block that you can't get past? Or does one part of your knee begin to hurt a lot?
Keep us updated
^ Shush convict. Get back in ur cell. 
We'll come see u around december "disobedient". Take care
Don't know what all this talk about pubic hair ice cream is but... Lol
My question to Disobedient, ( ironic name considering you are going against all the supposed LL rules haha) just how painful has this whole experience been from a scale of one to ten? A one being absolutely no pain, and a ten being "my entire body is being ripped to shreds in hell and my eyeballs are being stabbed with forks"?
Also, to the famous Dameon/Sweden ( weird reading all your posts for so long and now I'm asking for your advice) can you help me out? Anyone else is welcome to give me advice of course.
I am planning to go over to dr. sarin to get both my tibias and femurs lengthened. I want to add three inches to each segment. From there I want to add a little length to my arms just to even things out a bit.
I am willing to spend a year and a half over there. I will be taking online college for four semesters, so I can kill two birds with one stone. (Also, it won't be suspicious returning home super tall after A YEAR plus.) I am set out on being a dentist, they get paid good money and I will help people. Medical school is expensive, but I have heard many times the school debt is worth the salary. I'll be able to pay it off. This also applies to all the lengthening expenses. I'll pay it off in the long run.
I am 5'8. I want to be 6'2.
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