Dream_catcher: Dr. Guichet internal femur - summer 2016

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how long (seconds/minutes) can you hold that stretch in your picture?

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Axelf: I never attempted to see how long I can hold that position, but I can hold it easily for at least one minute.

I'm in my hospital room now... before my surgery, which will be the very first surgery in my life. A strong fear filled my body after a nurse injected an injector/extractor into my vein. At that moment, I suddenly realized that I'm a patient who is indeed going to undertake a heavy surgery! Wow, I never had that fear before...but I managed to get rid of the fear after a minute  I decided to start all this, so I must commit to finish this.

I came to the hospital at 11am, but Dr. Guichet had another surgery in the morning, so I don't know how long I need to  wait. Anyway I first arranged my stuff like medicines, water bottle, phone, and tablet at my room so that I could easily access them after the surgery. Then to kill the time, I turned on the TV. There are just a few channels, of course all in Italian. But one channel is showing American detective drama series, one after another, which I think was shot in the 80s. Well, I can't understand most of the talk of the characters , as the program is translated into Italian, but that doesn't prevent me to understand the main plot

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Thank you too, tbike200.

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Good luck...

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looking forward to reading your journey
as an asian-canadian myself and being older.
you must have a very understanding wife/family to support you.

out of curiosity, approximately how old are you? mid 30's? early 40's?

best of luck!

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Thank all you guys for the best wishes 

My surgery was finished one and half an hour ago and I just managed to finish my first and only meal for the last 24hours I think the surgery lasted around 6 hours because I remembered being taken to the operation room about 4pm. Yeah, I still remember things 

The first half an hour right after the doctors woke me up was serously insane. My whole body even my teeth were so so shaky and I had no control over it. The nurse told me that's  because of the pressure (of the instrumented nails?) And I was literally out of mind: weird thoughts were re-occurring in my mind, I don't even know if I'm still me and I felt like a robot who was being programs as my thoughts definitely  weren't coming from my consciousness! I guess that's the after-effect of anethesia   

I felt most pain in my right leg, which I guess was at the exact location where the nail was inserted. I couldn't look at it as it was coverred by a band. And both my legs felt very stuffy...Yes, stuffy with the nails and perhaps also swollen, which I'll left to check tomorrow morning.

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ortholengthing, I'm in my early 40s and I consider myself to be old for this kind surgery, but Dr. Guichet told me he had one patient in early 50s.

Dr. Guichet came by my room an hour or so after the surgery. He got the feet side of the bed elevated so my feet stayed higher than my upper body. But I lost that elevation after I tried to lower the entire bed. So I asked the nurse to help that he didn't know how to do it and I ended  up with two pillows stacked under my feet. Dr. Guichet tried to rotate my right leg and he could easily bend my right knee, but my right leg couldn't rotate inwards as my knee and my thigh muscle was contacting out of my control. I hope the muscle will loosen up tomorrow, otherwise I don't know if I can click.

I'm going to try to get some sleep now, though I don't feel very sleepy after the meal. I guess tomorrow will be a very tough day as the effect of painkillers will be gone...

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Very happy that all is ok for you Dream catcher. In 3 weeks it will be my turn...Start to stress already.

Good recovery mate!

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Dream catcher, just wanted to wish you the best of luck. But with Dr. G, you won't need it. You just need to be strong, work hard in PT, and stretch as much as you can. And for the love of God, take as many calcium supplements as you can.

Listen to your body. 7cm is a good goal (you are a similar starting height to mine, I was 166). If your consolidation isn't great, you may need to stop. Just listen to Dr. G - honestly, he's the man. Everything he has told me came/has come true. He really does have your best interests at heart (both in achieving your height dreams as well as not crippling yourself).

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Congrats on completing surgery. Thanks for sharing your live experience.
Keep continuous slow breathing and do Yoga while you have relaxing time and your body will have less pain and cooperate to your thoughts.
Good Luck !