Quote from: MirinHeight on December 08, 2017, 06:46:14 AMnot to be rude, but it is hard to trust a diary that does not have x rays at the very least.
Nobody could recognize you via x-rays so there should be no privacy concern.
I completely agree with you
Quote from: MirinHeight on December 08, 2017, 06:46:14 AMnot to be rude, but it is hard to trust a diary that does not have x rays at the very least.
Nobody could recognize you via x-rays so there should be no privacy concern.
Nonetheless, Good luck on your ll journey
Thats not rude at all. You have a very valid concern. I'm afraid people will have to take my word for it. Thanks for your wishes mate.
When should you start taking the calcium supplements?
Quote from: myloginacct on December 08, 2017, 10:16:10 PMWhen should you start taking the calcium supplements?
I started taking them the day after I was discharged from the hospital.
Update:
I stopped lengthening on December 1st. My last doctor visit was December 4th.
It has now been over a month and a week since I stopped lengthening. I am visiting the X Ray technician tomorrow to get an X-Ray.
I will find out if I can fully weight bear then. Fingers crossed. Otherwise, I'm pretty mobile with crutches. I can do almost everything with them (including drive, etc) except for carrying things around (both hands occupied).
My flexibility has gotten a lot better. When I stopped lengthening, my knees could barely bend 90 degrees even with the therapists pushing me. Now I can bend them past that by myself (and even more if someone is pushing my legs).
I actually went to the gym today for the first time since the surgery. It felt really good. I wish I had gone earlier but was a bit scared. I mostly rode the bike for 20 minutes and then did 20 minutes of chest exercises (I tried doing the lat pulldowns but I had trouble getting my legs around on that machine. Maybe I'll wait until I can fully weight bear before doing that) and then a few minutes of stretching. My stretch after doing the bike for 20 minutes was phenomenal. I realize that I should have been cyclying a lot earlier. Oh well.. never too late to learn.
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Since then, I met a lot of people from before. Thankfully, no one commented about looking taller. I really wanted to keep this secret and was worried that it would be obvious. The people I met were people I meet very infrequently (as I live in a different state). However, the questions about why I got "injured" got annoying eventually (especially when I was at a party). On the other hand, people, especially little kids are really sweet to you (because you are crippled).
I feel the effects of my new height almost instantly. Even though 2.7 inches doesn't sound like much, it feels crazy. Whenever I went to a party, restaurant, shopping, or to the gym, I was taller than almost every girl (I'm a hair below 5'9" now). A sizeable number of guys were shorter than me as well. Mentally, I assumed that they were teenagers or kids and then suddenly I remembered... no they are adult.. you aren't the same height as before. People who were several inches shorter than me at my old height (5'6") were usually teenagers or kids. Its a really weird adjustment.
My life is slowly getting back to normal. I quit my job and got into heavy debt for this surgery. Now my schedule is booked with job interviews (yay). So far its looking really good. If everything goes right, I will start working in March (and hopefully making way more than what I was making before).
Overall, everything looks good.
Quote from: Purushrottam on January 10, 2018, 03:17:21 AMUpdate:
I stopped lengthening on December 1st. My last doctor visit was December 4th.
It has now been over a month and a week since I stopped lengthening. I am visiting the X Ray technician tomorrow to get an X-Ray.
I will find out if I can fully weight bear then. Fingers crossed. Otherwise, I'm pretty mobile with crutches. I can do almost everything with them (including drive, etc) except for carrying things around (both hands occupied).
My flexibility has gotten a lot better. When I stopped lengthening, my knees could barely bend 90 degrees even with the therapists pushing me. Now I can bend them past that by myself (and even more if someone is pushing my legs).
I actually went to the gym today for the first time since the surgery. It felt really good. I wish I had gone earlier but was a bit scared. I mostly rode the bike for 20 minutes and then did 20 minutes of chest exercises (I tried doing the lat pulldowns but I had trouble getting my legs around on that machine. Maybe I'll wait until I can fully weight bear before doing that) and then a few minutes of stretching. My stretch after doing the bike for 20 minutes was phenomenal. I realize that I should have been cyclying a lot earlier. Oh well.. never too late to learn.
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Since then, I met a lot of people from before. Thankfully, no one commented about looking taller. I really wanted to keep this secret and was worried that it would be obvious. The people I met were people I meet very infrequently (as I live in a different state). However, the questions about why I got "injured" got annoying eventually (especially when I was at a party). On the other hand, people, especially little kids are really sweet to you (because you are crippled).
I feel the effects of my new height almost instantly. Even though 2.7 inches doesn't sound like much, it feels crazy. Whenever I went to a party, restaurant, shopping, or to the gym, I was taller than almost every girl (I'm a hair below 5'9" now). A sizeable number of guys were shorter than me as well. Mentally, I assumed that they were teenagers or kids and then suddenly I remembered... no they are adult.. you aren't the same height as before. People who were several inches shorter than me at my old height (5'6") were usually teenagers or kids. Its a really weird adjustment.
My life is slowly getting back to normal. I quit my job and got into heavy debt for this surgery. Now my schedule is booked with job interviews (yay). So far its looking really good. If everything goes right, I will start working in March (and hopefully making way more than what I was making before).
Overall, everything looks good.
Hey, man, awesome news.
Glad to hear your perspective in life (both literally and figuratively) already seems to be changing so much. You'll surely have some fun years ahead of you.
I hope everything continues on what looks like the track to a very smooth recovery.
Hi Puru,
Thank you for the update. Glad to hear that you are happy and recovering well. All the best with your interviews, hopefully you'll be back to work soon in a better place.
Can you share with us what you feel the hardest portion of your journey has been so far? What would you change? Do you feel that being at 5'9" is enough for you?
Thank you again. Wishing you all the best.
LAGrowin
Quote from: LAGrowin on January 10, 2018, 03:38:51 PMHi Puru,
Thank you for the update. Glad to hear that you are happy and recovering well. All the best with your interviews, hopefully you'll be back to work soon in a better place.
Can you share with us what you feel the hardest portion of your journey has been so far? What would you change? Do you feel that being at 5'9" is enough for you?
Thank you again. Wishing you all the best.
LAGrowin
No problem! Thanks for the wishes. My interviews are going better than expected. I think I may end up with a job that pays much more than what I was making before the surgery. I'll know for sure in a month..
Its hard to say what the "hardest" part of the journey was. Here are some of the "difficulties" I had:
1. Boredom from not being able to do too much
2. Constant level of dull pain
3. Lack of independence
4. Lack of sleep in the first few weeks was hard
5. Therapy started getting painful after 5 cm.
6. Being jobless while still making loan payments absolutely drains your finances. I'll sum up the full cost when I get a job so I can measure the amount accurately.
I wouldn't really change anything. Initially I thought that quitting my job for this was a bad idea because I wasn't sure how good of a job I'd get after. However now I'm getting so many interviews that I have trouble keeping track of them and literally have to turn people down. So thats not a concern anymore.
I was happy even at 5'8". 5'9" is definitely more than enough.
Update:
I just had my X-Ray taken (this would be almost 5.5 weeks post lengthening). The bone looks pretty connected. I will upload it later when I'm emailing it to Dr. Paley.
Hopefully its consolidated and weight bearing. This would make my life a lot easier.
Great to hear that your recovery is going well, and glad to hear that your job prospects are good. I guess it really is true that taller people make more money!
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