No More Mal-Kahn-Tent - External Tibias - Dr Parihar

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No charge.

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Isn't this still his fault?
I think one can control alignment in LON.

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He made it aware before my surgery that with exfix this could happen because of the motion that takes place in the middle and said that if it does he would add the pins and correct with the hexapod. LON should prevent this sort of thing but you're taking the knee pain risk and have to get your bone canals reamed, which I didn't want to deal with.

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Do you know how long it will take to correct? A week?

Also what do you do these days to keep active and ease boredom? The usual laptop movies, shows, games, etc? Outside those things what else is there to do everyday by yourself?

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Correction with the hexapod won't take long. Divya said it should only take a few days because I don't have to distract and just need to correct the angle.

Yea just the usual. Outside of physiotherapy I've just been using the laptop and occasionally pull out a PS3 game. The days are monotonous and just seem to blend into each other. The most human interaction I get is during my hospital checkups talking to various staff members and sometimes others in the lobby who are there for deformity correction. I had planned to come with a friend but he couldn't get time off work, and because there are no other international cosmetic patients currently I don't really talk to anyone outside of FB messenger.

I think if people came for lengthening with Dr Parihar or Dr Shah it would be cool if they all booked rooms in the same hotel because the doctors are close enough together by taxi and you'd have better social interaction which would help prevent you from feeling down. I've been watching a lot of comedies to keep my mood up.

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Update: 9/30/2014
These last couple days of physiotherapy have been hell. I found out that my equinus was actually worse than I thought it was. My physiotherapist Dr Chaudhary pointed out that when I stand using the walker I end up putting my hips back, which I didn't realize I was doing, and standing with your hips back makes it easier to touch the floor. It's probably why I ended up getting the equinus in the first place because I wasn't standing completely straight. When I have my back and legs touching the wall behind me while standing I get more of a stretch and I can't readily touch the floor with my right foot like a could before. I managed to get my right foot completely touching the floor three days ago and almost did so with my left one, but the last two days my calves have been really sore and the equinus is a little worse, despite me standing a lot and having the straps on constantly. I think it's mostly due to the soreness in the calves from the stretching but I'll have to wait a few more days to see if there's any progress.

The worst part is that the wires by my knees have been extremely painful the last few days. Most positions I move my legs will give me sharp pains at the wires and near one of them if I even touch the top of the skin lightly it feels like electricity in that area. Totally jacked me up during leg extension exercises today. I'm going to ask Dr Parihar if he can cut some skin surrounding the wires by the knees again during the surgery for the extra pins so I can at least extend my legs without wincing.

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Kahnny,

The electric jolts should subside immediately after distraction as I said before. I also do the same with my hips and it does really fk up your whole gait, so you're lucky they pointed that out to you so you can't cheat. Bette to hear the truth than be told it's okay and think it's fine when it's not. Hang in there.

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Hey Kilo I'd like to ask about humerus lengthening, which method did Dr Parihar say he'd use?

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Hi Kilo, I am impressd by ur diary bro. How u chose ur doctor by actually visiting them and measuring the pros n cons n providing all this imp information abt all the doctors. I m also planning my visit to India to meet various Indian doctors n do this surgery by this month end. Could u plz have a look at my thread n suggest me accordingly. I would really appreciate that.

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i am newbie here...i have a question...may b its stupid....what u people think its better to have slim leg(tibia bone with least muscles) or its better to have big(tibia bone+lot of muscles) for external fixture??