Part 9
"- My overall opinion on doing LL in India with Dr, Sarin, can I COMFORTABLY AND CONFIDENTLY recommend my family and friends? As of right now, NO, I don't think taking the extra risks is worth it to save some money...this is not like buying clothes, this is not a game; this is your body you're dealing with here, something you have to live with for the rest of your life.
A patient had a complication with his fibula fusing. It was rebroken; at the time the fibula was rebroken, it was only lengthened to 2cm, whereas, his tibula was 6cm; therefore, there is a 4 cm "missing" discrepancy.
Now, this patient complained to Dr. Sarin COUNTLESS times about Pains in his fibula region. Whenever he received his X-Rays he noticed something not right about his fibula. Dr. Sarin told him, "don't worry, it's fine, keep lengthening" which he did even though he was under intense pain.
It wasn't until he got to 6 cm on his Tibia X-Ray that Dr. Sarin FINALLY acknowledged his problem and decided to fix it...BUT LATE, months after the problem had progressed. Now, even if the Fibula was rebroken, there would be a 4 cm gap that may create a non-union (Space where fractured Bone does not heal).
The patients here read up and said that in order to properly heal up he would need a Bone Graft.But Dr. Sarin said different, he said he would just rebrake the bone and see if the bone heals without that sort of intervention. So a few days before surgery, the guy was told they would do an S-cut on him and that everything will be fine.
After surgery, it was revealed that they did NOT do the S-cut, and simply just broke it. He asked for explanations BUT did NOT receive much, and when he asked for a follow up X-Ray, the Doctor said he did NOT need one. He was pissed. When he got back to the guesthouse, the other patients were shocked they did not properly do what they said they would do, and on top of that, did NOT even bother to take a follow up X-Ray.
Patient B (mentioned earlier above) did not go into detail about this guy's complications on his old forum diary, he made it too causual and downplayed the whole process. Possibly so other potential future LLs would not be scared off.
Many times we've talked, what the majority of patients here are frustrated with, is the lack of care and transparency between Doctor and patients. Things are taken too casually, not properly explain, and in fact, sometimes not properly done / done sloppily.
And instead of focusing on preventing problems, issues are usually left till the last moment when they have worsen, before even being recognized and potentially fixed - though with more dramatic and worse after effects from leaving it untreated for so long.
Anyway, A month later, when the patient had to remove his frames, he was in for another, SUDDEN surprise as well. While laying on the Operating Table, before going unconscious from the anathesia, Doctor Sarin felt his ankle and said, "Uh oh, problem."
At that time on the operating table, after hearing there was a problem seconds before blacking out....when he woke up he got a modified frame on his leg.
This isn't the only time someone went into surgery expecting one thing, and waking up with a frame on. This has happened to the 11 month UK guy who later developed Foot Drop (inability to lift entire foot, or toes) on the leg with the second frame; to Crazy+6 when he went for a routine surgery; and now most recently to a well know old forum patient, when he came to get his leg straightened.
The well known old forum patient wanted additional surgery to straighten his legs because they are still slightly Bowed, it was suppose to be a simple procedure and would be walking out the hospital with a cane in a few days...when he woke up, he had frames on. "