5.5 Cm Femurs with Dr. Giotikas and G-Nail.

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@RB- Good to know thanks

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Quote from: V21 on August 17, 2021, 08:08:04 AMQuote from: JimmyJW on August 16, 2021, 10:15:25 PM
Around 47.000 euros for surgery, 2.700 for 3 months in Athens (appartment for me and gf), and a bit more for daily expenses, flights, etc etc. So maybe 52.000 or so.

Thank you. Best of luck. Athens is a pretty wild and beautiful city. Have a great time.

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4 days to go¡ Yesterday I bougth protein powder and peanut butter in order to be able to have a great calories intake after surgery. The food is also quite cheap here. Is there anything else useful that I should buy to make things easier?

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If you haven't already, download 'beat' and 'efood'. Efood is probabaly the app you'd need most - both for food and groceries

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Hello V21!
I just want to wish you the best of luck and give you some advice that can help you in your recovery, from my humble experience ...
Be very patient and spend as much time as you can to stretch your muscles every day without straining your body, stretch all the muscles of the hips and legs, it will help you maintain flexibility. When you can walk and exercise, exercise your legs as much as possible so as not to lose a lot of muscle tone, always within the limits allowed by the doctor ...
The first nights it will be hard for you to sleep so don't try to endure the pain, I tried not to take many painkillers the first few days but finally I had to increase the doses to the maximum to withstand the pain at night and to be able to rest.
If you can't sleep despite taking painkillers, stretch your legs for a few minutes, that helped me many times. If that doesn't work, the other option is a leg massage, but you depend on your partner being awake, of course, unp alone it's pretty difficult ...
If you need any advice, do not hesitate to write me a message.
Good luck my friend !!

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Thanks for your recommendations¡ I used Efood since I arrived here, it's very useful. I can buy food for a week for me and my gf for maybe 50 euros. Today I had my preop checks, and surgery will be at 7.30 AM on Wednesday. Giotikas said I had good flexibility, so I'm happy my training during all these months was useful.

The bad thing is that I will probably get the small nail (11 mm, can take 75 kg per leg). It was weird because I'm big, in fact I had to diet to cut down on weight (I was 85 and got to 73), but it seems that my femurs are not that wide. Giotikas says that he is not sure if the 13 mm nail will fit in: he will try, but probably I will get the 11 mm one, so I will have to be more careful.

In any case, the first G nail patients has surgery tomorrow. I will be the second one, and will update as soon as possible¡

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The 11mm is actually pretty strong. I wouldn't worry much about it as long as you're under 75kg - I had a 11mm fracture nail as well  - it's obvs. not g-nail but most 11mm IM nails are can tolerate decent load.

Good luck and keep us posted!

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I wish you all the best.  My date is September 14. 165lb per nail is still good.

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Hi V21,

Best of luck legend!

Looking forward to the updates!

I was thinking of doing Precice 2.2 with Dr Giotikas, is there a supply issue?

Also did he give you any covid discounts?

Did you have to book a month in advance? I was thinking of just flying over and rocking up haha!

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How'd you go getting accomodation and all that? I'm thinking if doing it there in October FYI.