Jan 21, 2022. Consolidation day 5:
I changed the title to “consolidation”. I confirmed I stopped lengthening today. Left leg 5.7 cm and right leg 5.9 cm.
Today I saw Dr Robbins to see if I can resume lengthening. It seemed he didn’t care about my flexibility and many things he said this time were completely different from what he said last week. Last week he said if I stopped lengthening, it would just take about 3 months to fully consolidate. He now said my tibia bones weren’t regenerating well and it may take 5 months and I may even need additional surgery if I keep lengthening to increase that gap. I didn’t even take new xrays today, so his evaluation was based on the same xray last week. At first I thought he just wanted to make it sound more serious so I would just stop or something. However later I heard the same thing from Dr Paley himself. Dr Robbins did mention Dr Paley got angry with him letting patients go above 5 cm on tibias. I’m wondering if that affected Dr Robbins’s evaluation this time. My nails were slightly bending inwards starting a few weeks ago. I don’t know the degree of bending but I can only tell it’s bending by placing a ruler next to my xrays. I never mentioned it because I wasn’t concerned about it. Dr Robbins wasn’t concerned about it either. He just mentioned the nails might bend more if I continue lengthening. I would still gain extra height, just not as much as it would if the nails were perfectly straight. It doesn’t sound serious right? However today I heard from Dr Paley that I couldn’t keep lengthening otherwise I may need additional surgery to straighten my tibias… He also told me to stop lengthening because I already got tight one time which was not a good sign. That probably explained why Dr Robbins didn’t really care about my flexibility this time.
I have no complaints about stopping lengthening. I just feel it’s funny that they didn’t tell me all these two weeks ago. I would not want to keep lengthening if they told me all these earlier. I would not even add 2 mm to my right leg.
Since I didn’t take xrays today, Dr Robbins told me to come back in 2 weeks to make sure I get good xrays to adjust discrepancy again. By that time my left leg will be 4 weeks into consolidation. Dr Robbins was trying to catch a flight today so I didn’t get chance to ask him more questions.
I will email Dr Paley to see if it’s safe to wait for two weeks to take xrays since I’m regenerating good amount of fibula bones and I’m worried about not being able to shorten the left leg in two weeks if there’s still discrepancy. I had 8-9 mm discrepancy from femur lengthening (it was only 4-5 before any surgeries). I just hope the discrepancy didn’t get worse after tibia lengthening.
I’m not very satisfied with Paley’s institute this time because of the things I mentioned earlier, but I’m glad at least I made it to 5.7-5.9 cm safely. Now I wish Paley himself could do more followups. At first I thought it didn’t really matter because Dr Robbins would report any serious issues to Paley. However Dr Robbins may have different evaluations than Dr Paley. We want to listen to Dr Paley because it’s Paley’s institute after all.
Weekend is coming and I can finally go to Disneyland and universal studios since I’m done with lengthening!! It’s been a while since I went there last time. It’s exciting to think I’m finally done and I’m 5 10 now. I can’t wait to stand and feel the new height. It’s just the average height in US but I went to the average from only 5’4.5. I will keep updating this diary but less frequently. I hope my femur and tibia diaries are helpful for you!!
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