Quote from: Sweden on August 21, 2014, 01:02:03 AMHoly s**t you bastard - MAN do I miss the Domino's pizza from India together with Red Bull 
Do you need some company? I could go there for the pizza only.....
I tried Domino's in Ukraine but it was awful 
It doesn't exist in Sweden. Closest one for me is in Denmark.
I think I'll go there tomorrow. It'll be an expensive pizza though
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Be careful when moving around. Think about every step you take.
I never fell when I was in India except one time from the chair, slowly, and a little down a stairstep the day I was going home.
I think I was too careful and had a much longer recovery.
I urge the pizza.......
Yea the Dominos here is pretty good. Did you ever try Pizza Hut while in Delhi? Supposed to be pretty good too. I like it in the States because they stuff the crust with melted cheese.
Getting to the bathroom is difficult because it's a narrow door on top of a step and I have to enter it sideways with one side of the walker on the elevated area so the walker is lopsided until I manage to get both feet through the doorway to pull up the walker. Decided it's too dangerous after that slip so I just scoot into it and pull myself onto the toilet by putting one hand on the rim and another on a chair I brought inside.
Quote from: TheRisingShorty on August 21, 2014, 04:23:58 PMSorry to hear about the fall. The bsthroom is definitely the most hazardous place. You have to be extra extra cautious in the bathroom. I also fell several weeks ago and experienced bad muscle spasm. But falling with external frames is beyond imaginable. OUCH!
Btw do you feel that the external frames are becoming part of you or do you feel it being foreign despite the amount of time with it?
Falling the way I did (body sliding to the ground first with feet still planted) almost feels like getting your legs pushed down on two sides until the middle gets pulled in half, like snapping a pencil. Everything was left intact though and it surprised me how resilient the frames are. I don't feel the frames most of the time when lying still, but they feel foreign as soon as I have to move my legs from the bed to the floor or have pain by one of the wires, which are a lot more irritating than the pins, btw. I suppose they'll feel more part of me once I've started consolidating.
No More Mal-Kahn-Tent - External Tibias - Dr Parihar
Quote from: KiloKAHN on August 24, 2014, 03:56:31 AMYea the Dominos here is pretty good. Did you ever try Pizza Hut while in Delhi? Supposed to be pretty good too. I like it in the States because they stuff the crust with melted cheese.
Getting to the bathroom is difficult because it's a narrow door on top of a step and I have to enter it sideways with one side of the walker on the elevated area so the walker is lopsided until I manage to get both feet through the doorway to pull up the walker. Decided it's too dangerous after that slip so I just scoot into it and pull myself onto the toilet by putting one hand on the rim and another on a chair I brought inside.
Falling the way I did (body sliding to the ground first with feet still planted) almost feels like getting your legs pushed down on two sides until the middle gets pulled in half, like snapping a pencil. Everything was left intact though and it surprised me how resilient the frames are. I don't feel the frames most of the time when lying still, but they feel foreign as soon as I have to move my legs from the bed to the floor or have pain by one of the wires, which are a lot more irritating than the pins, btw. I suppose they'll feel more part of me once I've started consolidating.
from a overview from aaaaalll of this. Would you say that "meh...it's OK...I can do this" ??
Quote from: Slim_tim on August 30, 2014, 04:10:00 PM
from a overview from aaaaalll of this. Would you say that "meh...it's OK...I can do this" ??
Yep. Some days are worse than others, but it's tolerable most of the time, especially because I've been fortunate enough to not have had any complications thus far.
Update: 8/31/2014
On the 28th I saw Dr Parihar again after getting another set of x-rays. He was impressed with how good my ankle flexibility is still. I haven't had any signs of getting equinus. Definitely due to a combination of my weight, constantly doing the ankle movement exercises the physiotherapist taught me, standing each day, and always wearing the shoe straps tight. I've distracted 4.5 cm now. I can feel the end of my lengthening coming that much closer. Distraction is starting to get more painful, but I was told to expect that to happen at this point. I've been taking Ultracet which has tramadol in it and it's helped reduce the pain considerably. As far as complications go, I only had some inflammation on one of the pin sites. Dr Parihar said it's too early to tell if it it infection, but he gave me antibiotics to take just in case. When I got back to the hotel from the hospital I had a lot of pain just below the knee on my right tibia and it was too painful to use my walker to go all the way to my room again so I had my wheelchair brought down to me and rode it up the elevator. Even back in bed I was in a ton of pain and resorted to taking an Ultracet combined with an NSAID. That did the trick and I was able to sleep fine. After some stretching the morning after the pain in that area went down to negligible.
Ganesh Chaturthi has started, the Hindu festival for the elephant god Ganesh. It lasts for ten days and you can hear all the music and festivities for miles around. Unfortunately there's a massive tent set up directly outside my window and I can hear the singing and drumming much louder than I would have liked when the music starts up. Fortunately it starts and stops at different times of the day and isn't constant.
About an hour ago I wheeled out to the lobby for a bit just to get a change of scenery and saw a bunch of young locals go through the large double doors at the other end of the lobby. The hotel set up a nightclub in that area and currently a lot of people are dancing the night away to Indian dance/electronica music. Looked like a lot of fun, but I looked at my frames and decided to wheel back into my room. It will be a while before I can dance again.
I'll post my most recent x-rays once Dr Parihar sends them to me. I forgot to ask for them to be sent to my e-mail at my last appointment.
The pain is less than in the beggining?
Quote from: Hallijah on August 31, 2014, 03:35:36 PMThe pain is less than in the beggining?
No. At this point the distraction is starting to hurt more after every time I turn. I was told it will get harder after I hit the 4 cm mark and it's proven true in my case.
Edit: The beginning few days after surgery were much more painful in general for sure. But in terms of the actual distraction, it hurts more now than when I first started turning.
Are you stopping at 5cm or going for more?
Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on August 31, 2014, 03:54:06 PMAre you stopping at 5cm or going for more?
I think I'm going to go for 6 cm.
Quote from: KiloKAHN on August 31, 2014, 03:49:30 PMNo. At this point the distraction is starting to hurt more after every time I turn. I was told it will get harder after I hit the 4 cm mark and it's proven true in my case.
Edit: The beginning few days after surgery were much more painful in general for sure. But in terms of the actual distraction, it hurts more now than when I first started turning.
you think 4 cm just For Your case? So For someone taller that would be 5 cm and so on and so forth, where you elastic before this?
Quote from: Hallijah on August 31, 2014, 06:21:47 PMyou think 4 cm just For Your case? So For someone taller that would be 5 cm and so on and so forth, where you elastic before this?
Well the first doctor I consulted with said that once 4 cm is hit distraction will be more painful. He was speaking generally about it so I think it might be something that would hold true for a lot of people of varying heights. Not sure though.
Despite stretching a whole lot before arriving here, I wasn't elastic at all. One of the physiotherapists even had to do a quite painful fascia release with some massage technique because she said that the physios noticed I had particularly tight fascia. Perhaps it has to do with all the leg exercises I did to bulk them up.
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