{"id":90191,"date":"2026-06-03T18:39:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90191"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:39:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:39:54","slug":"i-paid-62851-surgery-to-become-6ft-tall-but-the-excruciating-side-effects-can-be-fatal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/03\/i-paid-62851-surgery-to-become-6ft-tall-but-the-excruciating-side-effects-can-be-fatal\/","title":{"rendered":"I paid \u00a362,851 surgery to become 6ft tall \u2014 but the \u2018excruciating\u2019 side effects can be fatal"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1LdDGS.img?w=768&h=432&m=6&x=1102&y=270&s=216&d=216\" alt=\"Hugo had height surgery so he could be taller than his wife in heels (Picture: Hugo)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s brutal. You can\u2019t think of the pain, you need to think\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2020\/07\/29\/men-6-foot-tall-twice-likely-catch-coronavirus-new-study-suggests-13052697\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">six foot<\/a>.\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/i-paid-62-851-surgery-to-become-6ft-tall-but-the-excruciating-side-effects-can-be-fatal\/ar-AA24Ipgu?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a206dccab344bfcaf6d798ccca5170d&ei=37\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\u2018It\u2019s brutal. You can\u2019t think of the pain, you need to think\u00a0six foot.\u2019\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/pre-and-post-limb-strengthening.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90193,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90191\/revisions\/90193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}