It's happening Wannabe...
All the best!
Quote from: Wannabegiant on February 27, 2014, 04:15:48 PMUPDATE:
Im in Moscow now, at the clinic. Everything went smoothly, 2 hour flight from Sweden, and they picked me up at the airport. The only negative thing was that the traffic is insane here, took about 2 hours to drive to the clinic from the airport i landed on. Supposedly there is another one closer by but i didnt have the option to choose with this time schedule.
The clinic is quite small but feels safe and the personnel are all nice and friendly, very few of them know english though but it was no problem in the end. A translator came and told me how we where gonna proceed, they served me a warm meal and now i can relax and sleep whenever i want, I have my own room with Bed, TV, refrigerator, and the Wifi is pretty good. Toilets are clean and everything looks fresh. No complaints.
Tomorrow I wont be allowed to eat because they are gonna do blood tests and other tests in preparation for the surgery, I will talk to Dr. Bagirov as well and make the payment. Then I will do surgery on saturday and stay about 5 more days, then i will make the decision if i want to stay longer or go home and lengthen. Im leaning on staying a bit longer but since i cant stay for the full lengthening phase anyway because my Visa only lasts until the first of april (my insurance certificate didnt allow for longer), i might stay for ten more days to see if there is any problems, after that i might feel it is safe enough to travel home, then i will come back for a check up in about 2 months.
I took some pics of my room, will upload them soon.
Wannabegiants tibial lengthening in Moscow, Dr. Bagirov
I'm very happy for you... and I wished I should have gone to Russia one year earlier for LL if old forum didn't pimp India so hard.
Russia is where LL was born. And I think you're very brave for being the first person I know of who make this journey to Russia. It's almost like an uncharted territory and it is rewarding because of the price but there are a lot of unknown.
Thank you guys, yeah its quite uncharted territory, but I have been talking to a psycologist in preparation for this surgery. He had access to the healthcare records of former patients from Sweden who has done this surgery, according to him most swedish patients go to Russia for this surgery, because of price and proximity, majority of them where very satisfied with the results as well, thats all the details he could share with me, but it seems legit.
But so far im very impressed here, I feel very safe here because everybody is so nice, also there is a russian patient here who speaks very good english, his name is Sasha, it looked like he was doing external femur lengthening which is odd since i didnt know they did femurs in this clinic, he told me his situation was complicated and i didnt want to ask to much.
I just did a blood sample test this morning (man they took a lot of blood, filled like 5 tubes), but now i can eat and drink again. in a few hours I will talk to the Doctor, so im going to write down some important questions for him, so that i am prepared.
Update:
Did a test with a cardiologist, no problems there. And they scanned my legs for a computer measurement. Pretty cool machine actually, looked sci-fi:ish
After that i had to sign the papers, the cost was 6450 euros to be exact. I will make payment tomorrow, dunno why it was delayed. I also didnt get to meet the doctor today, will meet him early tomorrow and then the surgery will be done about 12 pm (noon)
I took a shower, and got a meal, now i have nothing to do. i could go outside and look around in the vincinity if i wanted to but i rather stay inside to avoid getting a cold or any other trouble. Feel bored and nervous at the same time, weird..
All the best 
. Will you be posting pictures?
Quote from: jerry on February 28, 2014, 03:41:11 PMAll the best . Will you be posting pictures?
Thank you man! Yeah at first I was gonna wait to do it until i get home, but since i got nothing better to do right now i might as well upload a few pics of the room. I use dropbox with my phone and computer so it should be easy. But after i have surgery tomorrow i wont upload any pics until i get home :p
Update:
Pics of my room:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pz9oy3lk0ahxdxx/Photo%202014-02-27%2019%2039%2048.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1l02w628j3ezjgg/Photo%202014-02-27%2019%2040%2000.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4zjltoLL Forumszrab1/Photo%202014-02-27%2019%2040%2003.jpg
the toilet is nice:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fc58rt28esujdpr/Photo%202014-02-27%2019%2043%2029.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9p0dxr3htvbrgu1/Photo%202014-02-27%2019%2043%2034.jpg
There seem to be a lot of Swedish people doing this surgery everywhere around the world.
Best of luck now. I remember the nervous feeling 
Quote from: Sweden on February 28, 2014, 05:37:02 PMThere seem to be a lot of Swedish people doing this surgery everywhere around the world.
Best of luck now. I remember the nervous feeling
Yeah lol, i think it is a combination of Swedish people being tall in general and people here being self centered and status obsessed, and because of that a certain height requirement is required to be accepted as one of the "cool guys".
I could never move permanently from this place though, mainly because it would feel like i "lost" and ran away. I rather be a big fish in the big sea, compared to a big fish in a small pond (if i moved someplace where people are shorter or something).
Also, thank you, i hope everything gets better with you too, ive been reading your diary at the old forum 
Congrat in starting your journey..
the cost of the surgery is really cheap, if I got replay form any clinics that contacted in Russia, I wouldn't do LL it in India!
I took a look at the pics, and your room looks small, but who cares..
I'm not sure if it's wise to return home before finishing distraction phase, may be you could extend your visa if your clinic provide you with a letter that indicates you have to stay longer to avoid the complications and so on ..
Good luck ..
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