My journey to become taller with Indian Spinal Injuries Centre

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are you planning to lengthening at home?

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I'm confused...why did you say earlier that 4.5 is the maximum you can do? Is it because of the monorail?

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Quote from: egocentrical on February 12, 2017, 06:04:17 PMare you planning to lengthening at home?
Yes, I'm at home right now :-)

Quote from: IwannaBeTaller on February 12, 2017, 07:44:33 PMI'm confused...why did you say earlier that 4.5 is the maximum you can do? Is it because of the monorail?
Yes, it's because they made two mistakes with the monorail.
Just found out about the second stupidity and now I can't do more than 3.5cm
I'm Mr. Bad Luck and now I have 28 days left to find a solution (before I reach 3.5cm).
I will write about it shortly.

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February 6th, 2017 - Discharge from Hospital and Flight Home for Consolidation

Discharge has been arranged for 8-9 AM.
I wake up at 5:30 AM to some tea.
When the ward boys come to my room I tell them that I will clean and dress myself today
I put on my modified jeans and special underwear and make sure that everything is in my bags.
At about 7 AM, a ward boy carries me to the Billing Office.
The final bill amounts to ~46000 INR which is about 670 EUR more than what has been estimated. But I was in the operation theater for a second time, I needed a lot of additional painkillers and I asked for essential replacement parts for my external fixators (just in case).
After that, I’m carried back to my room for breakfast.
I ask the sisters to call me a taxi and also to ask the taxi driver to help me getting into the airport until I have wheelchair support (this is important!).

For my flight home I got the following from my doctors and the hospital staff:

A letter from the ISIC stating that I'm clear to fly
A document proving that I have metal in my body for medical reasons
Dr. Surbhit's phone number in case anyone at the airport still has questions
Essential replacement parts for the external fixators
A medical report for my doctors at home
Medication for 7 days

When it’s time to leave the hospital, a ward boy carries me down to the main lobby.
The taxi driver is very polite and helpful. It’s the first time I like one of those greedy taxi drivers actually.
When we arrive at the airport he has a lot of struggle to get me my wheelchair support.
I can watch him through the glass front of the airport
He has to return several times just to let me know that he’s still working on it
I know that once I sit in one of those wheelchairs there is no way for me to exchange my rupees into euros and smuggling Indian currency through customs is a crime.
So I give the kindest taxi driver in Delhi the biggest tip in his lifetime
Making it into the plane is easy from now on and the service is free of charge.
The customs officer checks my legs for explosives
The people around me look at me like I was Robocop.

The direct flight is not so pleasant. If you can afford better than economy class, do your legs a favor.
At 40.000 feet me legs feel heavy, and after some time, my left leg’s pin has started to bleed again.
A girl sitting next to me asks what has happened to my legs. I’m very open about LL at home, but on the airplane, I lie and tell her that I have had a traffic accident. For the rest of the flight she tells me how brave I am and how strong I look. I’m offered bubblegum and cookies.

I’m happy to be at home now

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I will be following this diary closely as you are doing literly what i plan to do.

Do you know how long the Monorails are going to be on for?

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I'm super excited to see progress. congrats on the surgery and thanks for the detailed diary since i'll most likely be going with ISIC too

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also you said you are doing your femurs aswell - what method?

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Monorials plus a nail are quite Safe, the nail preventa misalignments.

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Any update? How's lengthing at home?

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Quote from: 0184946 on February 12, 2017, 10:28:38 PMI'm super excited to see progress. congrats on the surgery and thanks for the detailed diary since i'll most likely be going with ISIC too

Welcome, Digits

Quote from: egocentrical on February 12, 2017, 09:23:34 PMI will be following this diary closely as you are doing literly what i plan to do.
Do you know how long the Monorails are going to be on for?
Quote from: egocentrical on February 12, 2017, 11:26:31 PMalso you said you are doing your femurs aswell - what method?
Quote from: egocentrical on February 14, 2017, 09:17:25 AMAny update? How's lengthing at home?
I'm lengthening over a nail, so as soon as I have reached my final height I can have the nails locked and my fixators removed.

I will do my femurs once I've graduated which is about 11-13 month from now. I wanted to do all four segments in one go, but I've run out of time.
I wish to be taller so badly, but I also don't want to create a gap in my resume.

Lengthening at home feels great
I'm used to my surrounding, I have family support, life doesn't move on without me and it's less expensive.