Mail Online.Kristen said: "I saw the surgery as a way of living a more functional, independent life in a world built for a person of average height."As a child, I experienced a lot of medical difficulties because of my achondroplasia, like ear infections."I also struggled to navigate through public places.
Toilets were too high, and I couldn't reach light switches."My school had to adapt everything for me, I had my own table with little boxes to help me get up to my chair." The procedures were carried out by limb lengthening specialist, Dr Paley from the Maryland Centre For Limb Lengthening And Reconstruction.The author had repeated sessions over the course of four years.The surgery involved Kirsten's bones being broken and adding external.
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