Yellowspike - Dr. Guichet, Internal Femurs, Late 2014

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According to Dr. G, my right leg is fused completely and my left leg is very close to it. Good news!

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Quote from: YellowSpike on May 01, 2015, 02:22:41 PMAccording to Dr. G, my right leg is fused completely and my left leg is very close to it. Good news!

yeah bro, thats great, i think you will be recovered pretty soon

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Quote from: KirP1 on May 01, 2015, 02:41:18 PMyeah bro, thats great, i think you will be recovered pretty soon

I hope so bro! he said it's still gonna take me a few months to get completely normal again...at this point, I just want to not waddle like a duck when I walk. Although it's better than what it was...he said I can begin to job now, but I just laughed because I still can't even walk totally normal.

Dr. G just told me to do another inch would only take like 2.5-3 weeks...although he said I may not want to do it once I've fully recovered. We will see! After talking with Dr. R recently, I'm confident I can get the insurance to cover the rod removal...so I have some extra money to play around with to do the femur rebreak for that last inch.

Right now, just focusing on recovery!

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How are you feeling then mate, what's your recovery like so far?

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Quote from: Uppland on May 01, 2015, 06:10:10 PMHow are you feeling then mate, what's your recovery like so far?

I feel fine bud. My only complaint right now is that I still waddle when I walk. It's embarrassing, and so in turn, I have to really force myself to walk. And I have bad pain on my right hip from the nail that Dr G uses (they are huge!). Once I'm walking normally, I will honestly feel golden, even though I won't be FULLY recovered for a while at this point. Dr G even said I could try light jogging now, but I laughed because I can't even walk normally yet.

Now I just need to figure out how I'm gonna manage my career while taking a little more time off next year to hopefully bang out another inch. He said it would only take like 2.5 weeks to do it, and then I imagine consolidation would be faster (and I'll know enough to walk more without crutches, it's definitely helping bone ossification from what I can see). Ultimately I want to max the Gnail out, and then call it a day with LL once and for all lol. 

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Another reason I really like Dr. G - he's not at all selling me on doing more. He's actually saying that he thinks I'll be satisfied once I fully recover and am back to normal. He also reiterated that when his patients click beyond like 6.5cm+, they actually end up distracting a good few mm more than what they click.

I'm definitely going to give it a chance and see how I feel about all this once fully recovered. I still have duckass/lordosis, so there's that too, though I'm not counting on it for anything really. I have the option to do another inch in the semi near future. First I gotta recover from this one and enjoy the new height for a while!

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Do you have to go back to Dr. Guichet to rebreak the bone or can you go to ortho nearby to do it?

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Quote from: Deepak Chopra on May 01, 2015, 08:42:20 PMDo you have to go back to Dr. Guichet to rebreak the bone or can you go to ortho nearby to do it?

Dunno. I will inquire with Dr. G if and when the time comes. I would imagine I'd have to stay Milan for a while, at least for a week post op while I resume clicking.

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I walked to my family's house and back yesterday with no crutches and I'm kinda paying for it today. My right knee is killing me, but I think it's because I'm still favoring that leg knowing that my left leg hasn't fully fused yet (so maybe it's a mental thing). My left leg is very close to being fused Dr G said, hopefully at some point this month it will.

Whatever. I'm going to try and go for another walk tonight, despite feeling semi like crap in my right knee. Pain is weakness leaving the body!

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Is it normal be this weak at this stage of recovery, perhaps the real improvment comes after the bone has fused?