What Would You Give To Be A Bit Taller......?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0e8nd4z94jo

This process sounds like some sort of medieval torture. I'd have liked to have been a bit taller but wow, how obsessed do you need to be put yourself through that?

[barry1010]

I can't understand anyone putting themselves through that. Their bodies would be out of proportion 

[davebro3]

must be mental

[THECORBYLOON]

BARRY, some folk are naturally, "out of proportion" anyway.

 

[wolf63]

I'm short but would never consider having an op like this, or any non-essential operation.

 

[pastafreak]

I couldn't read much of that. I've heard of people having it done(on one of those medical oddities programs on REALLY)...the process never sounded as horrific as this.

[davebro3]

& all that just for an extra 3 inches!

[Gettingonabit]

I'm 5ft 1 and happy to stay there.  It's like they say God stops things growing when they  reach perfection.  Some of us get there much sooner than others. 

[barry1010]

Many men prefer shorter women, often much shorter 

[Ken4155]

I 'shot up' quite quickly as a kid and many said i was going to be a six-footer. Well, they were all wrong by about 5 inches. And, yes, there are times when i wish i was taller but i would never go under the knife to achieve extra height.

Gettingonabit; there's another saying; 'Good things come in small packages'. 😉

[barry1010]

I think very short men can be at a disadvantage, I've certainly met a few with 'short man syndrome' but is it so bad for a woman?  

[Peter Pedant]

I can't understand anyone putting themselves through that. Their bodies would be out of proportion 

no they kinda odd to start ( sozza heavily into AB speak this pm)

this is a service offered by the NHS ( altho the Guichet case seems to have been private ) and involved ( lenghening) cutting thro the tibia and fibula

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/24316-limb-lengthening-surgery

and a special frame fitted which can be ratcheted apart ( 1 mm a day or 1 mm a week ) once you know new bone has been laid down

( screams of " he doan know this: he fooing !" and that is only from the mods! Other Abers start to chant " scrub! scrub ! scrub!" and they dont mean 'clean your hands')

and the slow process continues

we had a surgeon cut thro the only artery going to the leg ( twice) popliteal artery. Disastrous - pts must be warned about this - and long term failure - infection haemorrhage etc

some of the scars in the index case seems ( puckered and wide) = infected which is a disaster if there is metal in the patient.

It is a really big deal but some patients want to go thro with it.

( the law case depends on negligence and the judge found there was. ) I think

 

[Peter Pedant]

oo-er Mrs ! Guichet wrote a paper about this

http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/18649/1/Guichet_etal_JLLR_2022_Decisional_Authority_and_Compliance_in_Cosmetic_Limb_Lengthening_A_Reverse_Patient_Consultant_Role.pdf

oops settled out of court so no admission of negligence

[Peter Pedant]

we had a  girl who refused Part 2 - 

but your knees are going to be at different levels! I hissed

I dont care - -  refusal respected ( aged 14) - - - surgeon has hissy fit