Cái giá của xinh đẹp

chặt chân rồi nối lại (bằng titanium) để... cao hơn...
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That John is on his feet at all is impressive (ấn tượng)—and probably foolish (ngu ngốc)—considering that only eight months prior, he was five feet eight and a half. Back in September, he paid $75,000 for the agonizing (đau đớn) privilege (đặc quyền) of having his legs surgically (phẫu thuật) lengthened (dài ra). That entailed (bao gồm) having both his femurs (xương đùi) broken, and adjustable (điều chỉnh được) metal nails (đinh sắt) inserted (nhét  vào) down their centers. Each nail is made of titanium, which is both flexible (linh hoạt) and sturdy (cứng cáp, vững chắc), like bone, and about the size of a piccolo (sáo kim). The nails were extended one millimeter every day for about 90 days via a magnetic (từ tính) remote control (điều khiển từ xa). Once the broken bones heal, ta-da: a newer, taller John.


Here is the full story. Oh and this:

With a procedure (phẫu thuật) like this, there are, of course, some caveats. All the height gain obviously (rõ ràng là) comes from your legs, so your proportions can look a little weird, especially when you’re naked. Also, the recovery can be long and taxing. When we meet, the bones in John’s legs are not yet fully healed, and a small section of his right femur is still a little soft, like al dente spaghetti; the smallest stumble could snap a bone in two. And it’s especially dangerous since he’s a big guy, over 200 pounds.

Then there’s the pain, which is relentless, ambient. The extension of the nails in his legs stretched the nerves and tissue around the bones—especially the thick, meaty muscles like the hamstrings—to an almost excruciating degree. He couldn’t walk for months. “They fill you with enough painkillers that it’s bearable,” John explains, but his biggest fear was becoming addicted to the drugs, so he weaned himself off the regimen earlier than he should have.

File under: “The costs of lookism.” The technique is originally a Soviet one.

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