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Software engineers from big tech firms like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are paying at least $75,000 to get 3 inches taller, a leg-lengthening surgeon says [They break the patients' legs. Recovery is long and painful.]
Business Insider via Yahoo ^ | September 15, 2022 | Katie Canales

Posted on 09/16/2022 8:47:26 AM PDT by grundle

Workers from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are paying $75,000 to be taller, a surgeon told GQ.

The Las Vegas surgeon can lengthen patients' legs via a painful months-long process.

He breaks the thigh bones and inserts nails that are extended every day for three months.

A Las Vegas cosmetic surgeon who specializes in leg-lengthening procedures that can extend people's height by 3 to 6 inches told GQ magazine that many of his patients are tech workers.

Kevin Debiparshad founded LimbplastX Institute in 2016, and the clinic's business has boomed during the pandemic, he told GQ.

Here's how it works: The doctor breaks the patients' femurs, or thigh bones, and inserts metal nails into them that can be adjusted. The nails are extended a tiny bit every day for three months with a magnetic remote control, GQ reported.

It can take months to slowly lengthen the bones and for the legs to heal. One software engineer told GQ he spent the first three months after his surgery alone in his apartment and ordered delivery food during that time to go from 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-9.

The procedure costs between $70,000 and $150,000, depending on whether the patient wants to grow 3, 4, 5, or 6 inches, GQ said.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


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KEYWORDS: kevindebiparshad; medicalmalpractice
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To: grundle
Would have better luck doing this:

41 posted on 09/16/2022 9:29:25 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: Gen.Blather

Having three of those four, (mid 40s, no longer have the abs) I didn’t realize that this is a common statement.

So common, that I remember a few articles my wife read that when women say there are no “suitable” men, this is what they mean.


42 posted on 09/16/2022 9:30:38 AM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: grundle
Software engineers from big tech firms like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are paying at least $75,000 to get 3 inches taller, a leg-lengthening surgeon says

I've never heard of this as a thing in Silicon Valley. Expensive, long and painful recovery - sounds like a very difficult way to go to end up with legs which are not in proportion to the rest of your body.
43 posted on 09/16/2022 9:31:58 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: rlmorel

That would work!


44 posted on 09/16/2022 9:33:11 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Mozzafiato
Most of these Silicon Valley software engineers are leftists

Not as many as you think. Many are actually libertarian or conservative. It's the attorneys, HR folks, and non-technical management types in Silicon Valley who are overwhelmingly leftist.


45 posted on 09/16/2022 9:35:31 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: grundle

It’s already hard enough finding pants with the inseam greater than the waist.


46 posted on 09/16/2022 9:36:40 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Gen.Blather
She said, “They want men over six feet. That’s only 15%. They want them handsome. Cut that in half. They want them to be high earners. Cut that in half again.”

It's not just women who are unrealistic. I have a friend who's about 5'10", fifty pounds overweight, bald and has eyes that point in different directions. He hasn't had a girlfriend in ages and constantly complains that he can't find anyone attractive enough.

47 posted on 09/16/2022 9:36:44 AM PDT by KevinB
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To: grundle

This is horrible. The surgery is used for people who are born with a shorter leg. Not really born with it. But one leg simply does not grow the same as the other one. The surgery takes years and hurts a lot. Plus it leaves scars on your leg. And after the surgery you have a frail leg. Plus you have opened up the bone to all sorts of life long issues.

It may be worth it to correct a deformity. But to go from 5’ 7 to 5’ 10 is not correcting a deformity.


48 posted on 09/16/2022 9:39:18 AM PDT by poinq
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50 posted on 09/16/2022 9:41:58 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: grundle
wonder what a 3” johnson extension goes for in silicon valley?
51 posted on 09/16/2022 9:47:11 AM PDT by thinden (buckle up....)
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To: grundle

And the leg tissue that isn’t there, and that must grow into the empty space?

What next? “trans-leg” following in the footsteps of trans and furry?


52 posted on 09/16/2022 9:49:58 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Biden has gone full nazi. No surprise. He told us on Sept 1, during his 20 minute hate speech.)
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To: grundle

Hmmm lots of Asian males in hi-tech


53 posted on 09/16/2022 9:50:18 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ( Liberty Valance Time. The point of a gun is the only law the left understands)
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To: dsrtsage
you will see that nearly all women no matter how obese have 3 minimum standards for dating

Yeah, no double-standard there.

54 posted on 09/16/2022 9:51:05 AM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven )
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To: Secret Agent Man
I don't think I said anything about men or women in my statement of "learn to be happy with who you are".

It applies to everyone.

"Learn not to take everything personally" is also a life lesson that applies to all.

55 posted on 09/16/2022 9:52:22 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Larry Lucido

South Park did it! Amazing this is where we are as a society.


56 posted on 09/16/2022 9:55:11 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Cecily

“You probably then have medical issues with your leg bones for life. Wouldn’t it be easier to wear lifts in your shoes?”

Exactly. One has to wonder what the long term effects of this are.


57 posted on 09/16/2022 9:57:26 AM PDT by Parley Baer (WI)
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To: grundle

The irony is that these “celebrate diversity” types all want to look the same. They may be different colors and dress bizarrely but they all have to be tall and thin.


58 posted on 09/16/2022 9:57:43 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Billthedrill

There’s a procedure called “phalloplasty” ... it means what you think it means.


59 posted on 09/16/2022 9:59:31 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

Yeah, but I’m not so sure about the breaking it bit and putting in a remote-control stretcher. Every time my neighbor use his garage door opener, well, you know...


60 posted on 09/16/2022 10:07:20 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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