Would you do this? Surgery for "growth"...

Damocles

Damocles

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http://news.yahoo.com/york-man-grows-six-inches-surgery-184123767--abc-news.html

At five foot, six inches, Apotheosis was shorter than the average American male and very unhappy about it.

So he did something other men who feel short might consider unthinkable: he opted for costly, painful surgeries to make himself "grow" a total of six inches.

"I realized that the world looked at me a certain way that I didn't look at myself in that certain way," said the 37-year-old New Yorker, who goes by the pseudonym "Apotheosis" in online forums and asked that "20/20" not use his real name. "I wanted the way I felt about myself and the way the world felt about me to be similar."

Apotheosis is one of a "growing" number of men pursuing limb-lengthening procedures for cosmetic reasons.

Dr. Dror Paley, a renowned osteopathic surgeon at the Paley Institute at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., performed 650 leg-lengthening surgeries last year.

More at link...
 
Wow. That reminds me of the South Park episode where the doctor made Kyle like six inches taller and black. Also reminds me of the Brady Bunch episode where Bobby hung upside down for hours trying to grow taller.
 
I know a kid who's had dozens of these surgeries......

Tim is now a teenager, one with one of the most severe cases of brittle bone disease.

“I've broken over 400 bones and had 40 or 50 surgeries,” said Tim. “I deal with it. Sometimes I hide that I have a break. I won't tell anybody because I don't want to ruin the situation.”
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http://www.checkorphan.org/grid/news/people/community-rallies-to-help-teen-with-rare-bone-condition

recently, he had a rod inserted through his spine because his bones would no longer support his weight.....
 
Damocles said:
http://news.yahoo.com/york-man-grows-six-inches-surgery-184123767--abc-news.html

At five foot, six inches, Apotheosis was shorter than the average American male and very unhappy about it.

So he did something other men who feel short might consider unthinkable: he opted for costly, painful surgeries to make himself "grow" a total of six inches.

"I realized that the world looked at me a certain way that I didn't look at myself in that certain way," said the 37-year-old New Yorker, who goes by the pseudonym "Apotheosis" in online forums and asked that "20/20" not use his real name. "I wanted the way I felt about myself and the way the world felt about me to be similar."

Apotheosis is one of a "growing" number of men pursuing limb-lengthening procedures for cosmetic reasons.

Dr. Dror Paley, a renowned osteopathic surgeon at the Paley Institute at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., performed 650 leg-lengthening surgeries last year.

More at link...
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I wouldn't, I don't care for surgery.
 
cawacko said:
Wow. That reminds me of the South Park episode where the doctor made Kyle like six inches taller and black. Also reminds me of the Brady Bunch episode where Bobby hung upside down for hours trying to grow taller.
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I thought of SP, also!
 
Damocles said:
http://news.yahoo.com/york-man-grows-six-inches-surgery-184123767--abc-news.html

At five foot, six inches, Apotheosis was shorter than the average American male and very unhappy about it.

So he did something other men who feel short might consider unthinkable: he opted for costly, painful surgeries to make himself "grow" a total of six inches.

"I realized that the world looked at me a certain way that I didn't look at myself in that certain way," said the 37-year-old New Yorker, who goes by the pseudonym "Apotheosis" in online forums and asked that "20/20" not use his real name. "I wanted the way I felt about myself and the way the world felt about me to be similar."

Apotheosis is one of a "growing" number of men pursuing limb-lengthening procedures for cosmetic reasons.

Dr. Dror Paley, a renowned osteopathic surgeon at the Paley Institute at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., performed 650 leg-lengthening surgeries last year.

More at link...
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since i am 6'2" i doubt it, but i could understand a short guy doing it, but if i were short, i still think that i would not do it
 
Yurt said:
frack no. this reminds of gattaca. i had no idea this was possible.
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more and more things are becoming medically possible

wait another 10 or 15 years and you still will not believe what will be possible

within another 5 years we may be able to clone our organs from our tissue and not have to use stem cells
 
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