since he'd been 8 years old, people have been giving props to Ronnie. Every room he enters. Every girl is impressed, every dude wants to be his friend or puff up to impress him.
Ronnie's felt like superman for a long as he can remember. And FIRST, he loses that. Suddenly he looks like everyone else, he's getting dwarfed by these local permabulkers trying to own him in thumbs up shots, dealing with no longer getting the props that were part of his life.
THEN you have to toss in how many times a day he has to hear "Wow, you shrunk!" and "What happened to you" and worst of all, "You used to be so BIG!"
Ronnie knows the numbers. He knows, sadly, his health may give him 5 or 10 years then things are going to go downhill fast. Or he can have 4 or 8 years of being superman again. Or, maybe the gear boosts his immune system, maybe his attitude skyrockets (maybe many of his current probs come from bad habits that come with the depression of being small suddenly).
And maybe he just wakes up every day and just wants to be HUGE again. Screw the costs. Nobody bodybuilds at that level for 30 years because they give a shit about living to 70 lol.