A 5'1" Long Island man is in the midst of a four month long medical procedure which, come May, will leave him four inches taller—and his insurance company is paying for it! 20-year-old cancer survivor Lenny Roth is getting the limb-lengthening procedure performed on his legs by orthopedist Dr. Robert Rozbruch, who made cuts midway in each of his thigh bones in February and anchored two rods to each leg. Every day Roth turns external nuts that make the rods lengthen 1 millimeter. (Then he takes lots of Percocet.) It's called the Ilizarov Method, and it was developed during WWII by a Siberian doctor who wanted to help injured veterans. According to Newsday, thousands of people get the procedure done every year; it normally costs up to $100,000, but Roth's insurance company is picking up the tab because it's also going to correct his bow legs. When he's finally done turning the nuts, the University of Connecticut accounting major expects to be 5'5", and no longer "the shortest person I know."