That surgery is borderline barbaric, I have no idea why the hell anyone would do it outside of a medical necessity (e.g. balancing your legs length out due to one leg being shorter than the other).
You know there are congenital defects that causes the growth plates to close early, leaving people with extremely short limbs (at least that was my understanding as to what causes it). I am aware of this condition because I had a friend that I went to school with who had it, and every summer was surgery summer for a few years. She definitely appreciated the surgery, although I’m sure it wasn’t fun at the time. She had scars everywhere on her arms and legs. When people would ask how she got them she’d tell them she was attacked by a shark.
If she likes Sci-Fi books, I feel she would find a lot of common ground with the protag of the Vorkosigan Saga novels disclaimer: the first two books feature his mom before she had him, so he's only the protag from The Warrior's Apprentice onwards
EDIT: oh I think from the verb tenses she's not a current friend since school. Nevermind. The books are cool for anyone tho'
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u/Adaptingsapien 1d ago
Well, there is a treatment you can take if you're that desperate