Once again the weekend has come upon me and my little brain can take a break and be better prepared for the next round of political chicanery….

There seems to be a never ending new thing for cosmetic surgery….we have face lifts, boob jobs, tummy tucks, butt lifts and ass fat injected into out lips….all in the pursuit of trying to “make” ourselves perfect in every way…..but no matter how much cash you spend to make that perfect body there was always the problem that you were too short…….in our pursuit of the perfect body and recapturing our youth….what can we do?

The Week magazine has an article on the next new thing in cosmetic surgery…..

“Just when you think plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures couldn’t get any weirder,” says Wendy Michaels at LimeLife, “along comes something like this”: Limb-lengthening operations to add a few inches to your height. Though the painful surgery was once reserved for people with dwarfism and children with one leg longer than the other, an increasing number of (mostly) men of just-below-average height are seeking it out for purely cosmetic reasons, according to ABC News. Here, a brief guide to the “radical and costly procedure”:

How does limb-lengthening work?
Though medieval torture devices aren’t involved, the procedure is arduous and prolonged. A doctor breaks the patient’s shin bone and inserts a telescoping rod. Over time, the rod pulls the bone apart very gradually, roughly 1 millimeter a day. As the leg bone is stretched apart, new bone, nerves, arteries, and skin grow to fill in the gap. The whole process takes about three months, followed by several more months of demanding physical therapy. Only a few American doctors perform this procedure, which costs about $85,000 in the U.S., and significantly less abroad.

How much taller can it make you?
Generally, the surgery can add two or three inches to a patient’s height, although a New York man using the pseudonym “Apotheosis” added six inches to his original 5-foot-6 frame. More typical is New Jersey resident Akash Shukla, 25, who has “grown” to about 5-foot-2 from 4-foot-11. Limb-lengthening usually isn’t performed on anyone over 5-foot-9.

Is the procedure safe?
Not necessarily. A 2006 study in the journal International Orthopaedics found that “complications of this treatment are frequent.” They include nerve damage, uneven lengthening, hip problems, and paralysis.

How bad do you want to be taller?  After my fall that screwed up my leg and the operation to insert that metal I have been made one half inch taller…..well one leg is a half inch longer than the other…..a Hell of a way to get that extra half inch.  Huh?

I am always amazed at the torture we humans will endure in the name of beauty….but this will be painful and just sick if you even consider such a thing…..looks like I am a dying breed…people who actually like themselves……..