Diso,
What was your distraction rate per day? I heard that femurs consolidate faster than tibias, is it true? BTW, have you had any issues after they performed manual manipulation in your knees? I've heard this sometimes can be more bad than good. Thank you and please keep updating us.
Hi leo
- Dr Rah advised me to do 1mm/day for each part
- I think this is right since I had pre-consolidation in my femur in the beginning of distraction phase
- not really, rather than the pain that I felt after the surgery, there were no complications or side-affects that I could mention .
2 weeks left to remove the fixator, I couldn't be happier .. 
to be honest now at the end of my journey with these fixator I feel I can stand them one month more ... even staying here in India, one month more wouldn't be exhausted to me at this point. ..
funny thing , I found out that I was expecting to stay here in India for 8-9 months. when I read my post i was really surprised lool, 9 months! WTF, when did I think of that ??
Quote from: Disobedient on October 27, 2013, 12:04:13 AM
I'm Engineer, and I have been deal with numbers mostly in my life and this surgery to me is like mathematical problems that deals with many numerical value......
I may take few months more so I may take 8 or9 months but it's not bad too
cuz I'll suffer just for one time, I
anyway 2 weeks more, and I'll be fixator free, there should be a word describe the person after removing the fixator like sober with alcohol case
Congrats Diso!
What is the plan when the frames are removed? Will you be in a wheel chair for a while? When will you be able to walk with crutches?
Good news that you'll be free of frames soon. It sucks to be in bed all the time.
When you were distracting, what is the time interval for each .25 mm? 3hrs or 4?
Always admiring your courage. Im a dude, still enough is enough. Cant wait to go home.
Woohoo... It must be a great feeling to finally see a glimpse of light at the end of a dark tunnel. You are certainly more brave than I am. I wish I have lengthened as much as you did all in one go.
Bullsurfer... divide your waking hours by 4. Lengthen one in the morning, lunchtime, supper and before going to bed by .25
I hope everything is good.
You'll have that willy-wonka feeling after you removed them.
Are you going to wear a protective cast or anything for a while after fixator removal?
MORNING
12 days left.. 
Blackhawk
thanks, I'm not advised to walk immediately.. perhaps after a month or so I'll start standing..
BullSurfer
You'll be home soon just focus to not have any further problem in your right femur...
what smallguy said is a right way to not disturb your sleeping, otherwise if you did a turn every 6hours you would have to wake up to just do a turn.. but since you're doing 1.25mm, do 1 turn every 5 hours..
to be honest for me most of time I did all the four turns at one time (morning after taking pain killer)..
Smallguy & mediocre
Yes indeed it is amazing feeling .. although I'm still with the frame, but just imagining that after 12days I wont see these frames again, make me feeling so high
Kilokahn
yes, I don't remember its name though, it is a portable things I can take it off whenever I want ..
something like this one
it looks uncomfortable , but sure better than frames
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