UNICORN - Dr. Guichet Internal Femurs 8cm - Summer 2016

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Quote from: jem_semarc on May 18, 2020, 11:00:44 PMThanks for sharing your story. I read through the whole thread, it took me days but it was well worth it. Let’s be honest, Dr. G has pretty much crippled you. It’s sad to say.

I think people need to seriously reconsider if they are thinking to go for Dr. G. I mean, why would they? Stryde is the way forward & Paley / Dr M haven’t had anywhere near as many complications. When I saw that Dr. G had two deaths, I immediately felt so sorry for those poor people.

I mean, if I had two deaths in my clinic from cosmetic procedures I had done, I’d surely quit and look at doing something else. The guilt would be crazy.

If anyone else is thinking about it, you may as well go all in and do Stryde.

Anyways, I wish you the best Unicorn. Tough times don’t last, tough people do!

Wait he had 2 deaths. How the fk is he still allowed to work as a surgeon?

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Quote from: snowpiecer on May 19, 2020, 07:47:43 AMWait he had 2 deaths. How the fk is he still allowed to work as a surgeon?

Because death due to embolism is sometimes unavoidable even with the best surgeon.

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Sorry was responding to this story: https://jezebel.com/stories-about-my-brother-1835651181

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Does anyone know what happened to Unicorn now?

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Hi everyone,

Just a small update before I go into surgery.

Sometime in January 2020, I suffered massice pain on my right leg. I tried going to A&E but it was full and my had seizures at the same time. So I took the cat first and waited until my end Feb'20 hospital slot.  The xrays showed that my right leg nail is bend/broken and it should be removed from my right thighs immediately.

As that heppens, total lockdown came into force and I had no choice but to deal with my broken leg at home with no painkillers.  From Feb to May, I contracted Covid, lost all my savings when oil crashed to negative space, my 20-yr old cat finally died and my right leg finally broke from the bent nail.

I'm now waiting for NHS to find me a spare bed so that they can operated on me. They need to remove the old Guichet stainless steel nail, and implant with a titanium trauma nail.  They plan to extract a piece of bone from my pelvis to graft the large 9cm non-union gap of my right leg.

Lastly, they'll shorten my rigth leg first, wait for it to heal before restarting lengthening so that it may finally match my left leg, with healthy bones.

It's a lot to ask in one surgery, but the dire situation I found myself in this year 2020 has made me so desperate that in a lot of ways, I stopped caring about anything. I only loved my cat and she had to die too.  I'm attached a GO FUND ME link here just in case you could spare anything.  It's to help me with my living expenses since I had wrecked up £63,000 of credit card debt during these last 4 years trying to get better.

I vaccilate btw being scared about what's awaiting me in the near future and panic at the same time to any more bad news that my mental and emotional system cannot cope.  So with this, I have succumbed to prayer and exercise.

Take care of yourselves and never be in my shoes, ok?

E

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Thanks for the update. I know it won't feel like it now but there will come a point when you will turn a corner and eventually be able to start putting all of this is behind you.............

Have you thought about putting a best offer option on your ebay items? They are more likely to sell this way and this will obviously help your financial situation.

Good luck and keep us updated, feel free to DM me any time you want a female perspective. XxX

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Jesus. I can't believe how hard life tries you. As if you didn't have enough problems to deal with already, you also contracted the Covid virus AND your cat died.  Well.....that's another thing we have in common. My  dad died too shortly after I had my ACL surgery in 2018 so I know how you feel.  From my experience, troubles come in packages. Sometimes one leads to another like in your case. At least Guichet's damn nail didn't rust. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if I heard that too. But yeah kats20 is right. Once real doctors take care of you and your legs will heal you will finally be able to put all of this behind you. I just hope you will stay with us and remain an active member unlike so many people who have this surgery  and  then forget about this forum . We don't have many long-term stories and many people could use your experience and advice. You are an amazing and beautiful person. Seriously, I show my friends a picture of you and tell them to guess how old you are and they all say you are 20. The closest guess was 30

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Quote from: IwannaBeTaller on May 19, 2020, 08:07:34 AMBecause death due to embolism is sometimes unavoidable even with the best surgeon.

''By April 2017, I went to Milan for my 3rd surgery with Guichet where he accidentally broke his own nail in my left leg and had to hammer out components through my knees. He also extracted bone marrow from my pelvic bone to inject into my non-union right leg''

He broke his own nail and then he tried injecting bone marrow to fix a 10 cm gap. He was either high or he forgot how to be a surgeon

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First diary I’ve read which didn’t turned out well, are there any other diaries which have turned bad? I Hope you are well Unicorn, I am a guy and the same height as she (unicorn) was before, im 5ft1/2 I’m thinking of going for 2 surgeries with Dr mahboubian but this diary has made me loose abit of the confidence I had. If I was a girl I would most definitely wouldn’t do the surgery, a short female is cute, a short male isn’t thou, this surgery should only be done by guys tbh. Sucks to be short, anyways hope you get well soon unicorn, Praying for you.

Also guys what’s the percentage % of the surgery not going so well/ bad? If I’m right Dr mahboubian said 97% or 99% success rate

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Quote from: jem_semarc on May 18, 2020, 11:00:44 PM
I mean, if I had two deaths in my clinic from cosmetic procedures I had done, I’d surely quit and look at doing something else. The guilt would be crazy.

Yes Guichet seems borderline sociopath /psychopath. He is quick to attribute any negative outcome on the patient. He is unable to look at this from a broader point of view that his whole "practice" has deficiencies that has led to patients suffering and dying.