Do you think someone used to western standards would be able to manage Dr. Parihar's hospital? There was another consultation on the old forum where the prospective patient decided he wouldn't do surgery with your doctor because the hospital was supposed to be some godawful mess. Is the poor quality of the hospital exaggerated or did you just suck it up?
Quote from: Sean Connery on March 15, 2015, 05:46:36 AMDo you think someone used to western standards would be able to manage Dr. Parihar's hospital? There was another consultation on the old forum where the prospective patient decided he wouldn't do surgery with your doctor because the hospital was supposed to be some godawful mess. Is the poor quality of the hospital exaggerated or did you just suck it up?
I've seen American hospitals and they are sometimes so messy.
But I suppose indian hospitals are worse.
Quote from: YellowSpike on March 11, 2015, 01:11:48 PMHey Kilo - did you see your orthopedist yesterday? If so, how did it go?
How are you feeling at your new height, are you definitely gonna do a second LL?
My local orthopedist used a 10 mm wrench to loosen the nuts on each of the rods. A lot of them were on really tight and by the time everything was loosened I had terrible soft tissue pain just below the knees that lasted for 5 days. He still wants to get my frames removed in mid-April and put me in walking braces for a month or two afterward, so he said to ask Dr Parihar if he thinks differently.
Quote from: Sean Connery on March 15, 2015, 05:46:36 AMDo you think someone used to western standards would be able to manage Dr. Parihar's hospital? There was another consultation on the old forum where the prospective patient decided he wouldn't do surgery with your doctor because the hospital was supposed to be some godawful mess. Is the poor quality of the hospital exaggerated or did you just suck it up?
You can see pics of my room earlier in the diary. I really thought the condition of the hospital was fine. Yeah you're not going to see shiny marble floors, but it's got everything you would need to be comfortable. I honestly think that someone who won't do surgery there solely based on how it looks is a drama queen. The hospital's OT is clean and sterilized so there's no need to worry about that.
Update: 3/19/2015
Got back from another physical therapy session. He decided that the only exercises I can do at the moment are things I can do at home and don't need to be there for, so he decided that I'll have my next session once these frames are removed (mid-April if Dr Parihar allows it) and to just keep doing home physio. Good news is that since my appointment last week my dorsiflexion has improved from left leg -30 degrees and right leg -25 degrees to left leg -15 degrees and right leg -10 degrees. My goal for the next meeting is to get to 0. He said for normal walking you want 10 degrees dorsiflexion on each leg, which I think will be possible for me with enough time. I'm waiting longer than usual for my x-rays to be processed for pickup. Hopefully they'll be ready for me to post tomorrow.
I did slightly over 6 cm so I expected it to be 9 months wearing frames at a minimum. It's amazing that a woman can develop a baby faster than my bones can heal with exfix only lol.
LON patients have the benefit of walking around sooner and taking the frames off in one third the time you have to wear frames for exfix only.
Quote from: SAD on March 20, 2015, 12:08:18 PMWow man, you're recovery is taking quite long.
It'll soon be a full year. Did you anticipate this?
Do LON patients usually take this long?
Dr.Parihar is quite conservative and recommends external fixation for 1.5 months per cm. Kilokahn did his surgery on the 25th of June, 2015, lengthened around 6 cm and it's nearly 9 months. This is normal. Some doctors are even more conservative, for example Dr.Birkholtz and Dr.Rozbruch both recommend 2 months of external fixation per cm.
Latest X-Rays (3-10-2015)
definitely takes over a year of getting back to full recovery, so tbh, no reason not to wear frames a while
Your X-rays looks good. Nice to read a diary which always show the progress as it goes on. Good luck.
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