Sept. 24, 2014, in the operating room of a plastic surgery hospital in Beijing.
A young man who looked to be about 20 years old was lying quietly on the operating table, surrounded by several medical staff in white lab coats.
"Doctor, can I really grow taller after doing this? ”
"Don't worry, it's not the first time we've had this surgery, and it's definitely fine. ”
The young man nodded reassuringly. Immediately afterwards, the medical staff injected *** for him
A few hours later, the light at the door of the operating room turned from red to green, and the young man who had completed the operation was pushed out of it.
He was unable to move with his legs strapped to his bindings, and he was still asleep. But when he woke up for the first time and saw his tightly bound legs, a touch of irrepressible joy appeared on his faceThe legs were "stretched", and he grew taller
In fact, the young man's name wasLi ArnuoHe had just undergone a heightening operation.
He doesn't look bad, but his height is only about 1.6 meters, which has become a lingering heart disease for him.
In order to grow taller, Li Yanuo searched for a way, but he did not get the desired results, until a hospital promised to perform an operation for him.
And now, looking at the legs that have obviously "increased" through surgery, Li Yanuo is happy in his heart, and can't help but look forward to the beautiful life he will welcome in the future.
It's a pity that he was wrong.
Later developments showed that this operation, instead of becoming the savior of Li Yanuo's height, pulled his future life into the bottomless abyss, making him feel regretful every time he recalled it later.
What's going on here?
The reason why Li Yanuo had to go to the hospital for height enhancement surgery was because of his anxiety about his height.
Born in Beijing, China, in 1994, life was normal until he was 12 years old, and like most children, he had a carefree childhood.
But all this began to change quietly in 2006, when Li Yanuo turned 12 and entered middle school.
For the vast majority of boys, the age of 12 is an important starting point for puberty. Li Yanuo has learned the concept of puberty from books, and knows that during this period, his physical development will become very fast, especially in terms of height.
Li Yanuo's father has a height of 1.8 meters, and Li Yanuo thought to himself, since his father is so tall, according to genetic influence, he will at least grow to 1.8 meters.
Looking forward to it like this, the days passed day by day, and soon Li Yanuo turned 14 years old and was promoted to the third year of junior high school. At this time, Li Yanuo discovered that his height was wrong.
When he first entered the school in the first year of junior high school, Li Yanuo's height was not low, about 1.6 meters, ranking at the top of his class. However, in the blink of an eye, in the third year of junior high school, Li Yanuo found that in the past two or three years of junior high school, the height of his classmates has grown rapidly, not to mention male classmates, but many female classmates, and his height in the third year of junior high school is close to 1.7 meters, but he is only a little more than 1.6 meters.
Looking at the partners around him who study and play together on weekdays, all of them have become taller than him, Li Yanuo is half confused and half anxious.
He told his mother about his worries:"Mom, I'm only more than 1.6 meters now, they said that if I didn't grow taller in three years in junior high school, it would be difficult in the future, could I only grow so tall? ”
In the face of Li Yanuo's question, his mother replied with a smile and comfortingly"You're thinking too much. How old are you now? Just because you don't grow taller now doesn't mean you won't grow taller in the future, you may develop a little later than your classmates, and you will grow taller when you go to high school. ”
Li Yanuo will be skeptical.
The mother then explained:"You haven't grown taller, maybe you're not well nourished and not eating well enough. In the future, your father and I will prepare milk and eggs for you every day, make the meals more hearty, and the nutrition is enough, and you will definitely be able to grow taller. Your priority now is not to worry about your height, but to prepare well for the high school entrance examination and strive for a good score. ”
Seeing that his mother swore by her, although she was still a little worried in her heart, Li Yanuo temporarily put aside her incomprehension of her height problem and concentrated on coping with the high school entrance examination.
The hard work paid off, and after studying hard for a year, he successfully entered a local key high school.
After going to high school, Li Yanuo found that any of his classmates around him were 1.7 meters tall, and even reached 1.8 meters or even 1.9 meters, while he was only a pitiful 1.66 meters.
High school is different from the compulsory education of junior high school, which is divided into good and bad classes, and seats are ranked according to test scores.
Once, due to a mistake in the exam, Li Yanuo did not do well in the monthly exam, so he had no choice but to sit in the back row of the class, but because he was not tall enough, his vision was blocked by the tall classmates in the front row during class, and he couldn't see the teacher and the blackboard at all.
The head teacher later learned about the situation and transferred Li Yanuo back to the front row. Li Yanuo can see the teacher and the blackboard again, but he is also ridiculed by his classmates because of this. Everyone said that Li Yanuo was a "little man", and some classmates who were usually naughty and mischievous asked him:"You're so short, you can't be half-crippled, right? ”
The classmates' ridicule of Li Yanuo's height made Li Yanuo feel that his self-esteem had been humiliated and fell into a deep inferiority complex.
Not only that, but one of the things that happened afterwards made the height problem really become a lingering demon for Li Yanuo, that is, the enrollment of civil aviation pilots.
When he was still in junior high school, by chance, Li Yanuo once saw the enrollment brochure of a first-class aviation pilot, and on the cover of the brochure, the handsome and heroic appearance of the pilot deeply attracted him.
Li Yanuo began to walk on the road of chasing his dreams, and got a chance to get close to his dreams in high school.
At that time, it was 2010, and the school where Li Yanuo studied organized an enrollment exam for civil aviation pilots, and Li Yanuo, who heard the news, actively signed up.
Li Yanuo has always studied hard in school, and despite occasional mistakes in exams, his grades are still among the best overall. Therefore, Li Yanuo successfully passed the written test, followed by the physical examination.
Li Yanuo is very confident in himself, he thinks, he is in good health, he has not found any disease in the annual physical examination, he has rarely even had a cold over the years, and he has no myopia that most of his classmates have, and his eyesight is excellent, and it is absolutely no problem to pass the physical examination.
Unexpectedly, in the next first level, Li Yanuo was brutally eliminated because of his height. The standard of civil aviation pilots, the minimum height of male pilots is 1.69 meters, and Li Yanuo's height measured is only 1.66 meters.
The difference of just 3 centimeters is like a moat, which extinguishes Li Yanuo's dream, and he will never have the blue sky he dreams of again.
was told of this result that day, and Li Yanuo's whole person suddenly became depressed.
Unwillingness, complaining, pain, all kinds of negative emotions came to my heart. When he returned home that night, as a boy, he couldn't help crying, hiding under the covers and venting his emotions with tears.
It was from that moment that Li Yanuo regarded short height as his lifelong enemy, and tried his best to improve his height.
Drink milk, eat all kinds of soy products, constantly supplement various nutrients that are conducive to height growth, and make unremitting efforts every day to do exercise ...... that is conducive to heightAnd so on for a whole year.
In his third year of high school, Li Yanuo measured his height again, 1.67 meters, an increase of only 1 cm compared with the previous year.
Li Yano broke down, and he confided all his uneasiness to his parents.
The parents also felt distressed when they saw the child's height that had not grown for many years and his depressed expression, so they took Li Yanuo to the hospital for examination and asked the doctor how to make the child grow taller.
What I didn't expect was that after the examination, the doctor took the perspective of the film and told Li Yanuo's family an incomparably bad news:"Your child's name is Li Yanuo, right, the epiphyseal line of his leg bone has been completely closed, there is no cell proliferation and differentiation, and there is no possibility of growing taller. ”
A simple sentence is like a thunderbolt from the blue, which easily shatters the expectations of the family and completely shatters the dreams of a teenager.
The doctor said that he couldn't grow taller, Li Yanuo was extremely depressed, he couldn't believe that this was the truth, and then went to other hospitals in Beijing for examination, and asked the doctor if there was a way to make himself taller, and the results were all no, without exception.
Li Yanuo didn't believe in evil, he searched on the Internet again, and after rummaging through all kinds of information on the Internet, he finally found a way to make him taller-Broken bone augmentation.
What is Broken Bone Augmentation? Although this method is called "height increase", it is not actually used for ordinary people to increase height, but is aimed at patients with limb deformities, and is a kind of surgery for bone correction for these patients.
Generally speaking, from children to **, the epiphyseal line of a person will slowly grow and close as they age. During this process, the cells proliferate and differentiate, and the person's height increases as a result, and once the epiphyseal line is closed, the height stops developing.
The principle of broken bone augmentation is to surgically separate the closed epiphyseal line and then install a fixator to stimulate the reproduction of cells and regenerate the bone.
Theoretically, this procedure is perfectly feasible for height gain.
The first time he saw an online presentation about the operation, Li almost jumped for joy because it meant that he was expected to increase his height.
He immediately told his parents about the incident, and when they learned that if the operation was not done properly, it could damage the nerves, causing the patient to be unable to walk or even become disabled, and they said that they would not agree to Li Yanuo to go for the operation.
But Li Yanuo was almost paranoid about growing taller at this time, and his parents disagreed, so he repeatedly persuaded him to take those successful examples on the Internet as examples, and described to them his beautiful vision of successfully growing taller after completing the operation.
Unable to bear their son's soft grinding and hard bubbles, Li Yanuo's parents had no choice but to agree, and under their son's depiction of the future, they gradually began to believe that the operation could be successful and their son would usher in a better future.
On September 24, 2014, accompanied by his parents, Li Yanuo went to a plastic surgery hospital in Beijing that can perform bone augmentation surgery and is said to have a high success rate.
After some discussion, the doctor selected a height increase of 7 for him2 cm, cost 160,000 yuan of surgical plan.
Li Yanuo felt 72 centimeters is not enough, and he is only 1.74 meters after the operation, and he wants to increase it a little more, preferably to 1.8 meters, the doctor said
“7.2 cm is already the highest, and no matter how high we are, we cannot guarantee the success of the operation, and it is likely to damage the nerves. ”
Li Yanuo had no choice but to compromise when he heard this. He changed his clothes, lay down on the operating table, and was wheeled into the operating room under the worried gaze of his parents.
On September 24, the day of the operation, it was actually Li Yanuo's 20th birthday, he lay on the operating table, closed his eyes lightly, hoping that from this day on, his life after undergoing height enhancement surgery could have a new direction that was different from the past.
The operation lasted several hours, and when he entered, he was intact and came out of the operating room with external fixators tightly strapped to his legs.
The effect of the anesthetic quickly passed, Li Yanuo gradually woke up, the first thing he opened his eyes was to check his legs, and the moment he saw the fixer, his eyes were full of joy, and a happy smile appeared on his face.
Li Yanuo seems to have seen that he will recover soon and welcome the beautiful scene of a new life with a new height.
It's a pity that fate always likes to come to a head-on attack when people are most proud, and Li Yanuo would not have expected it at this time, and accepting the broken bone augmentation surgery not only saved him from his inferiority due to his height, but dragged his life into a deeper abyss.
It turned out that the so-called broken bone augmentation surgery was extremely large, and most of the people who underwent this surgery to increase their height later became disabled or semi-disabled, so as early as 2006, the Ministry of Health made it clear:It is strictly forbidden to use the procedure in the aesthetic industry.
The hospital that performed the operation on Li Yano knew about this rule, but in order to make money, they deliberately ignored it, and instead worked hard to promote the few successful examples.
As for Li Yanuo himself, he also knows that there will be ***, but he thinks that only people with particularly bad luck will encounter it, and the hospital he chooses is the one with the highest success rate, and there will be no problem if he does it himself.
Both sides avoided talking about the *** thing, and each completed this extremely high-risk broken bone augmentation surgery with their own minds.
After the operation, the hospital told Li Yanuo that the first stage was conservatively estimated to take two years. Li Yanuo's family thought that this was the time needed to return to normal life, but they never thought that during these two years, Li Yanuo often felt soreness in his calves, swelling in his bones, and he could not walk at all under the restraint of external fixators.
He comforted himself that this was a normal phenomenon, and it was good to survive these two years, but after two years passed, after taking off the external fixator, Li Yanuo realized how naïve he was in the past.
He did grow taller, but his legs were basically useless.
For the forcibly pulled legs, Li Yanuo felt that he was completely out of control, let alone jumping and running, even if he tried his best, he could only walk two steps slowly, and more often, it was difficult to even stand up.
That's not all, what is more serious is that it didn't take long for him to find that his legs were deformed, the longer they became, the more they bent, showing a deformed state, and for a little longer, he couldn't even walk slowly.
Li Yanuo was anxious, feeling that he must have encountered surgery *** In 2019, he went to the hospital for an examination, and sure enough, the results of the examination showed that he had a leg bone valgus, pelvic instability, and a collapsed arch ......
Li Yanuo has truly become a "half-disabled" and needs to be taken care of by his parents to survive.
Every late at night, thinking of his immobile legs, Li Yanuo felt regret from the bottom of his heart, hating that he was obsessed with only wanting to increase his height, and ignoring the risks.
It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in the world, Li Yanuo regretted it at this time, even if he burst into tears, it was too late, so he could only forcibly endure it and live his life tormentedly.
This is the most precious thing that God has given to human beings, and it is normal for us to want to be beautiful and want to grow taller, but while making artificial changes, we must also consider whether we can really afford the costs and risks.
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