On a crisp autumn day, a young man in his early twenties lies on the operating table at a plastic surgery hospital in Beijing, his eyes full of anticipation and doubt.
The white coats around him were busy nervously and orderly, as if they were preparing for a major operation. The young man asked, "Doctor, can I really grow taller through this surgery?" ”
The doctor replied confidently, "Don't worry, we have done this surgery many times, and we will definitely succeed." Hearing the doctor's words, the young man's heart was much more reassured.
Then, the medical staff began to inject him *** The operation is about to begin.
The door to the operating room finally opened, and Li Yanuo was pushed out of it. Although his legs were tightly fastened, unable to move, and the man was still asleep, when he opened his eyes for the first time and saw his "stretched" legs, his face was filled with unconcealable joy - he had finally grown taller.
Li Yanuo has always been troubled by the fact that he is only 1.6 meters tall, and he has looked for various ways to increase his height, but he has not obtained the desired results. Until one day, he heard that there was a hospital that could perform height augmentation surgery for him, so he decided to give it a try.
Now, looking at the legs that have been slightly "heightened" after the operation, Li Yanuo's heart is full of joy and anticipation for the future. However, it backfired, and the surgery, which was supposed to bring him height confidence, pushed his life into an endless abyss, and whenever he recalled that experience, he would deeply regret it.
So, what exactly causes such an outcome? For Li Yanuo, because of his concern about height, he decided to go to the hospital for height enhancement surgery.
Born in Beijing in 1994, he lived a carefree life until he was 12 years old, and spent a happy childhood like other children. However, in 2006, when he entered secondary school, everything began to change.
For many boys, the age of 12 is a turning point in adolescence. Li Yanuo learned about the characteristics of puberty through reading, knowing that during this period, his body will develop rapidly, especially in terms of height.
His father is 1.8 meters tall, and Li Yanuo believes that according to genetic influence, he will reach at least 1.8 meters. However, as the days passed, when Li Yano was 14 years old, he found that his height development was not as expected.
When he first entered junior high school, Li Yanuo's height was not short, about 1.6 meters, and he was already at the top of the class. However, in the blink of an eye, in the third year of junior high school, Li Yanuo found that in the two or three years of junior high school, the height of his classmates has increased rapidly, not to mention the male classmates in the class, even many female classmates, the height of the third year of junior high school is close to 1.7 meters, while he himself is still only a little more than 1.6 meters.
Seeing that the partners around him who were learning and playing together became taller than him one by one, Li Yanuo was both puzzled and anxious. He told his mother about his worries: "Mom, I'm only more than 1.6 meters now, they say that if I don't grow taller in three years of junior high school, it will be difficult to grow taller in the future, can I only grow so tall?" ”
In the face of Li Yanuo's question, his mother smiled and comforted: "Don't think 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, maybe your development is later than that of your classmates, and you will grow taller when you go to high school. ”
Li Yanuo will be skeptical.
Child, height is not the only factor that determines your future. As long as you have enough nutrition, healthy lifestyle habits, you can become the person you want to be. Your first priority is to concentrate on preparing for the exam and strive to get the desired score and get into a good high school.
Your current height is not an issue, as long as you have faith and determination, you can overcome any difficulties. Hearing his mother's words, Li Yanuo was relieved, he devoted himself to his studies, and finally achieved good results in the college entrance examination and was admitted to a local key high school.
After entering high school, he found that although his classmates were generally taller, he did not feel inferior, and he knew that he could achieve his dreams through his own efforts.
High school is different from junior high school in that it is divided into good and bad classes, and seats are ranked according to test scores. Once, Li Yanuo had to sit in the back row due to poor grades due to a mistake in an exam.
However, due to his lack of height, he was unable to see the tall classmates in the front row blocking his view and unable to see the teacher and the blackboard. When the head teacher found out, he moved him back to the front row.
Although he was able to see the teacher and the blackboard again, he was ridiculed by his classmates, known as "Little Man", and even asked if he was half-crippled by a mischievous classmate.
Li Yanuo had always dreamed of becoming a civil aviation pilot, but when he heard that height was an important requirement for pilot admission, his dream began to blur.
His self-esteem was severely hurt by his classmates who ridiculed him for his height, which caused him to fall into a deep inferiority complex. When he was in high school, the school organized an entrance exam for civil aviation pilots, and Li Yanuo actively signed up, hoping to realize his dream.
However, the problem of height became a lingering demon in his mind, and he began to feel inferior to his height, and even began to question whether his dream was too idealistic.
Despite this, Li Yanuo did not give up, and he firmly believed that with courage and perseverance, he would be able to achieve his dream.
Although Li Yanuo has always been a good student in school, his exam scores are among the best. However, in the physical examination of civil aviation pilots, he failed to pass the first hurdle because his height was less than the standard line of 1.69 meters and only 1.66 meters.
This shattered his dreams and made it impossible to pursue his long-held passion for flying blue.
Faced with this news, Li Yanuo instantly fell into deep trouble, and negative emotions poured into his heart like a tide, full of unwillingness, resentment and pain. When he returned home at night, he couldn't hold back his tears and hid in the quilt to release his inner emotions.
From that moment on, short height became a lifelong enemy of Li Yanuo, and he was determined to do everything in his power to improve his height. He began to drink milk, eat a lot of various soy products, constantly replenish nutrients that are good for his height, and insist on ......exercising every day to help him get tallerThis insistence is a whole year.
Li Yanuo measured his height again in his junior year of high school, and only 1 centimeter was added, which made him feel extremely lost and uneasy. His parents saw his distress and took him to the hospital for a check-up.
But, to their heartbreak, the doctor told him that the epiphyseal line of his leg had been completely closed and could no longer be elevated by cell proliferation and differentiation. This news was like a bolt from the blue, shattering all their expectations and Li Yanuo's dreams.
However, Li Yanuo did not give up, he went to other hospitals in Beijing for help, but the results were the same, and there was no way to make him rise again.
In desperation, he searched for information on the Internet and finally found a method called "Broken Bone Augmentation". Although it was a risky operation, Li Yanuo decided to give it a try in the hope of achieving his dream of gaining height.
"Broken bone augmentation" is not designed for the height of ordinary people, but to help patients with limb deformities to perform bone correction. In general, the epiphyseal line of a person will gradually close in the process of moving from a child to **, and cell proliferation and differentiation will lead to an increase in height.
But once the epiphyseal line closes, the height will stop growing. Broken bone augmentation, on the other hand, is a procedure in which the closed epiphyseal line is surgically opened and a fixator is installed to stimulate cell reproliferation, thereby promoting bone regeneration, and theoretically this surgery can be used to increase the height.
When he first saw information about the operation online, he was ecstatic because he saw hope for heightening. He immediately told his parents the news, but when they learned that if the surgery was not performed properly, it could damage nerves, causing the patient to be unable to walk or even become disabled, they firmly opposed him to undergo the surgery.
However, Li Yanuo's obsession with increasing height made him unable to give up, and he used successful cases on the Internet to persuade his parents to describe the situation of his successful height increase after surgery. At their son's insistence, Liano's parents finally agreed, and with his bright vision, they began to believe that the surgery could be successful and open up a better future for him.
On September 24, 2014, accompanied by his parents, Li Yanuo went to a well-respected plastic surgery hospital in Beijing, where he can perform surgery to increase the height of broken bones, and the success rate is said to be extremely high.
After some discussion, the doctor recommended a height increase of 7 for him2 cm, cost 160,000 yuan of surgical plan. However, Li Yano believes that 7A 2-centimetre increase is not ideal, and he hopes to increase it a little more, aiming for 1.8 meters.
However, the doctor told him: "72 cm is already the limit of our technique, and no matter how high it is, we cannot guarantee the success rate of the operation, which may cause damage to the nerves. ”
Although Li Yano regretted this, he eventually compromised. He changed his clothes, lay down on the operating table, and was wheeled into the operating room under the worried gaze of his parents.
September 24 is not only the day of surgery for Li Yanuo, but also his 20th birthday. He lay quietly on the operating table, closed his eyes, and prayed in his heart that from this moment on, he could have a new life after receiving height augmentation surgery.
After a few hours of surgery, Li Yanuo entered the operating room unharmed, and when he came out, his legs were tightly strapped to external fixators. As the *** effect subsided, Li Yanuo slowly woke up, and the first time he opened his eyes, he checked his legs, and the moment he saw the retainer, his face was full of joy and showed a satisfied smile.
Li Yanuo seems to have seen the beautiful scene of his recovery soon and welcoming a new life with a new height.
It turns out that fate always blows people head-on when they are triumphant. Li Yanuo did not anticipate that undergoing the broken bone augmentation surgery would cause him more distress and deep self-blame.
He regretted to find that the so-called broken bone augmentation surgery was extremely serious, and many people who underwent this surgery became disabled or semi-disabled. As early as 2006, the Ministry of Health banned the use of this procedure in the medical aesthetic industry.
However, the hospital that operated on Li Yanuo deliberately ignored this rule in order to make money and vigorously publicized the very few successful cases.
Li Yanuo understands that surgery has certain risks, but he believes that the hospital he chooses has the highest success rate and is confident in his surgery. Both parties avoided mentioning the possibility of *** having completed this high-risk surgery together.
After the operation, the doctor told Li Yanuo that the ** stage was expected to take two years. Li Yanuo and his family thought that this was the time it would take to return to normal life, but during these two years, he often felt soreness in his calves, bone pain, and was unable to walk under the confinement of external fixators.
Li Yanuo once comforted himself that he would recover after two years, but after taking off the external fixator, he realized that he was too naïve. Although he has grown taller, his legs have almost lost their function.
His legs were uncontrollable because he was forcibly pulled up, not to mention running and jumping, and it was difficult to even walk, and even standing became a problem. To make matters worse, his legs began to deform, becoming more and more bent and deformed, and even his walking speed became slower.
This made him deeply saddened and made him value his health even more.
Li Yanuo regretted his illness, and he realized that it was the *** of the operation that made him "half-disabled". He had neglected the possible risks because he wanted to increase his height, and now he can barely make ends meet under the care of his parents.
In the dead of night, he would regret his ignorance and impulsiveness, and hate himself for not protecting his body properly. However, there is no regret medicine in the world, and he can only endure the pain helplessly and spend the rest of his life in torment.
As human beings, we receive the gift of the body and ** as the most generous gift of God. It is human nature to pursue beauty and heightenedness, but while seeking change, we should carefully consider the risks and costs that such change may bring.
What do you think of Li Yanuo's experience?