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It looks horrible too. A family member has undergone a similar one in Russia, although in her case it was a necessity (she could not walk a mile without her fee

by geoka 17y ago

It looks horrible too. A family member has undergone a similar one in Russia, although in her case it was a necessity (she could not walk a mile without her feet starting hurting). They break your bones and install fixtures with metal rods driven through your feet/ankles/shins. Then they use these fixtures to control the way your bone fragments knit back together over a period of several months. It is hard to imagine that someone would put herself through this for pure cosmetic reasons.

vaksel 17y ago
Pretty sure everyone's feet start hurting after walking a mile, especially if you drive everywhere. Instead of getting surgery, how about spending a few minutes working out and building up your legs? A few wall squats, a bunch of jumping jacks, and some towel hopping and you'll be just fine, without involving surgery that'll screw up your life 20 years later.
- geoka 17y ago
  >Pretty sure everyone's feet start hurting after walking a mile, especially if you drive everywhere. She doesn't drive. Maybe I should have been more specific. The family member I was talking about had a condition called hallux valgus since her early teens. When she got older it became so severe that she could not walk extended periods of time without seriously hurting. The surgery does have consequences, like problems with blood circulation and occasional numbing. But she is glad she did it.
kragen 17y ago
Many intelligent people spend many hours every week of their lives and many dollars doing things for purely cosmetic reasons: putting on makeup, picking out clothes, buying clothes, painting interior walls, waxing and detailing their cars, taking photographs of things because they're beautiful (rather than because they need to remember something about them), painting on canvases, performing plastic surgery, getting tattoos, tattooing other people, piercing ears, brushing and cutting and styling hair, listening to and playing music, dyeing fabric... Although in the case where the canvas is oneself, you can raise the objection of narcissism or selfishness, I think these pursuits are fundamentally worthwhile and even noble.
- geoka 17y ago
  It wasn't a question of time and dollars, it was a question of pain and discomfort. What I meant, going through all that pain and discomfort for being a few inches taller - that's what I found hard to understand.
  - kragen 17y ago
    I don't know about you, but I often prefer being in pain to spending money or wasting time.

by geoka 17y ago

vaksel 17y ago

Pretty sure everyone's feet start hurting after walking a mile, especially if you drive everywhere. Instead of getting surgery, how about spending a few minutes working out and building up your legs? A few wall squats, a bunch of jumping jacks, and some towel hopping and you'll be just fine, without involving surgery that'll screw up your life 20 years later.

geoka 17y ago
>Pretty sure everyone's feet start hurting after walking a mile, especially if you drive everywhere. She doesn't drive. Maybe I should have been more specific. The family member I was talking about had a condition called hallux valgus since her early teens. When she got older it became so severe that she could not walk extended periods of time without seriously hurting. The surgery does have consequences, like problems with blood circulation and occasional numbing. But she is glad she did it.

kragen 17y ago

Many intelligent people spend many hours every week of their lives and many dollars doing things for purely cosmetic reasons: putting on makeup, picking out clothes, buying clothes, painting interior walls, waxing and detailing their cars, taking photographs of things because they're beautiful (rather than because they need to remember something about them), painting on canvases, performing plastic surgery, getting tattoos, tattooing other people, piercing ears, brushing and cutting and styling hair, listening to and playing music, dyeing fabric... Although in the case where the canvas is oneself, you can raise the objection of narcissism or selfishness, I think these pursuits are fundamentally worthwhile and even noble.

geoka 17y ago
It wasn't a question of time and dollars, it was a question of pain and discomfort. What I meant, going through all that pain and discomfort for being a few inches taller - that's what I found hard to understand.
- kragen 17y ago
  I don't know about you, but I often prefer being in pain to spending money or wasting time.