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because I am doing the leg lengthening.

Ezekiel is halfway through this grueling process, in which you would have spent three months living in a hotel in Istanbul

to complete a procedure that will break and then lengthen his legs.

I had my surgery on 3rd July.

Right now I have length almost 5 centimeters. I want to achieve 8

centimeters. He was excited before the surgery. He'd done his research. He'd saved the money.

And now, finally, the moment was here.

You wake up. And when you wake up, believe me, the pain is so, so extreme.

You feel that your bones, everything is like an explosion of pain inside you.

The first three days, you regret.

You start to realize that I had my bones break and you are in a foreign country

and I can't even move. I can do nothing.

This isn't for the faint-hearted.

After his femur bones, that's the ones in his thighs.

After they were broken in two, the surgeon inserted metal rods and added fixators.

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