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by hprotagonist
1368 days ago
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When i was in elementary school, a classmate had something wrong with the growth plates in his femur, and the solution at the time was to basically do this surgery but at 2mm a week. He spent all of third grade with pins in his left leg and a permanently semi-healing femur that would get cracked open a bit further and a bit further... he missed a LOT of school, because he basically couldn't function for 48 hours after the next increment was done. The alternative was that his left leg would be 8" shorter than his right, so it was probably the right thing to do, but good lord it's not without cost. |
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