My journey to become taller with Indian Spinal Injuries Centre

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Quote from: Chris on March 23, 2017, 08:39:51 PM
Well, to be honest, on Saturday, I received an email from Dr. Deepak asking me how I'm doing because he didn't hear from me (see everyone, like I said, he does care about his patients).
I haven't replied yet, because I don't want to argue since I really like(ed) him as a person.
This is my weak spot. I hate trouble 
But I should talk to him at least once and let him know, I'm aware of that.

Dr. Deepak may be a good guy but you can't kiss the ground he walks in because of that. He fked up your legs. He at the least needs to know that. His opinion/emotions probably don't matter but he needs to know what happened as a result of his incompetence.

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Chris, I have been reading your diary from the beginning. It's really great that you maintain your positive thinking even after all the trouble. You seem right in your writings. Everyone who wants to go through cll needs to read your dairy not only because to be careful with choosing the doctor but to remain hopeful. I wish you a speed recovery. Since you are very young, you have time to take things slowly. All the best.
If anyone knows about dr suhas shah in Mumbai. Please let me if he is good doctor.

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Hi Chris

How are you doing man ? Hope things are getting better.

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Quote from: fujitora on April 07, 2017, 06:11:48 PMHi Chris

How are you doing man ? Hope things are getting better.

Hey

I'm almost back to normal live with still having my monorail fixator on my left leg.
No need to lock the tibia nail. In about 3 weeks I will have new x-rays taken again, and if I'm lucky, I can take it off by early to mid May.
I'm planning to remove the fixator by myself btw., hope the pain won't punch me into coma
I've been taking the stairs with my crutches since 1.5 weeks now and I even made it to a bus stop twice when my friend couldn't pick me up for university.
I'm even fit enough to do my part-time job again, starting on April 17th. Yay!
Sleeping still sucks though, because I'm one of those people who prefer to sleep on their stomach.

Now having to live with one fixator on, I've come to the conclusion that unilateral lengthening on tibias would indeed have been good choice for me.
Today, I would rather take 4-6 moth per leg and can still take part in life instead of locking myself away with almost no mobility and to be depended on others.

Here is also an update on my experience with lengthening modest amounts:
I could only become 1 inch taller (for now). I can confirm that everyone who was up to 2 inches shorter and up to 3 inches taller than my initial height noticed my gain of only 1 inch, regardless of whether they knew I did LL or not. And I'm an university student, I know and I meet a lot of people (even on crutches ).

I'm still feeling way too short though, which shouldn't be a surprise since I haven't even made it past 165cm yet
But the short girls (160-165cm) keep treating me differently now and it helps my broken ego. Everyone wants to feel potentially attractive to the opposite sxx after all.
Respect from other men is still far off though, but I've started to tell myself that I've been doing harder, more painful and more dangerous things to my body than probably all of those wannabe-gangstas ever will.
And thanks to LL, the most important development for me is that now I can wake up every morning knowing that I'm doing something about my too short appearance, even though it now will take me two more surgeries and approx. 2 more years to finally be done with it. I'm much calmer now, because I can see light at the horizon.
Also, if the LL journey is getting long, live on its road and make it a lifestyle

Peace!

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Quote from: Chris on April 08, 2017, 12:26:48 PMHey

I'm almost back to normal live with still having my monorail fixator on my left leg.
No need to lock the tibia nail. In about 3 weeks I will have new x-rays taken again, and if I'm lucky, I can take it off by early to mid May.
I'm planning to remove the fixator by myself btw., hope the pain won't punch me into coma
I've been taking the stairs with my crutches since 1.5 weeks now and I even made it to a bus stop twice when my friend couldn't pick me up for university.
I'm even fit enough to do my part-time job again, starting on April 17th. Yay!
Sleeping still sucks though, because I'm one of those people who prefer to sleep on their stomach.

Now having to live with one fixator on, I've come to the conclusion that unilateral lengthening on tibias would indeed have been good choice for me.
Today, I would rather take 4-6 moth per leg and can still take part in life instead of locking myself away with almost no mobility and to be depended on others.

Here is also an update on my experience with lengthening modest amounts:
I could only become 1 inch taller (for now). I can confirm that everyone who was up to 2 inches shorter and up to 3 inches taller than my initial height noticed my gain of only 1 inch, regardless of whether they knew I did LL or not. And I'm an university student, I know and I meet a lot of people (even on crutches ).

I'm still feeling way too short though, which shouldn't be a surprise since I haven't even made it past 165cm yet
But the short girls (160-165cm) keep treating me differently now and it helps my broken ego. Everyone wants to feel potentially attractive to the opposite sxx after all.
Respect from other men is still far off though, but I've started to tell myself that I've been doing harder, more painful and more dangerous things to my body than probably all of those wannabe-gangstas ever will.
And thanks to LL, the most important development for me is that now I can wake up every morning knowing that I'm doing something about my too short appearance, even though it now will take me two more surgeries and approx. 2 more years to finally be done with it. I'm much calmer now, because I can see light at the horizon.
Also, if the LL journey is getting long, live on its road and make it a lifestyle

Peace!

Great progress in a very short amount of time. Awesome man, keep going!!!

I couldn't even walk with crutches for 7 months, even with full weight bearing frames. For you to do it in just a month, that shows you're physically fit for this journey.

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Quote from: fujitora on April 08, 2017, 01:40:09 PMGreat progress in a very short amount of time. Awesome man, keep going!!!

I couldn't even walk with crutches for 7 months, even with full weight bearing frames. For you to do it in just a month, that shows you're physically fit for this journey.
Thanks :-)
Yes, I'm VERY flexible and I had strong and trained legs to begin with. Despite the pain, I also tried to use the walker whenever I could which helps a lot to fight atrophy.
But then again, I only made it to 1 inch with my first surgery. If I could have done 4cm as planned (or 2 inches like you did) things would probably be a bit harder for me now.

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It's very inspiring to see your determination.

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I wanted to leave my old diary dead and buried, but today I noticed, that there are 5 of 4 distal screws under both of my knees.
The fifth screw seems to be behind the IM nail without any purpose and they are also not in my medical records.
My German doctors never mentioned anything about it, but they had other concerns fixing me I guess.
Oh well, I will just add this to my flaw-list and ignore it.

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Hey Christ its been a few years now and I am considering undergoing limb-lengthening with Mitković and would like some guidance regarding costs and planning. My goal is to gain approximately 13 cm in total height, with 7.5 cm allocated to the femurs and 5.5 cm to the tibias, staying within the safe recommended limits and pushing the tibias to their maximum recommended length,
Could you please confirm if this distribution is feasible and if the total cost for both segments would be €13,000, as I have seen mentioned? Any advice on optimizing the lengthening for safety, proportions, and recovery would be greatly appreciated.