Considering cosmetic surgery? Read this first.
Cosmetic surgery transformed my happy, healthy life into a perpetual nightmare. Many well informed patients with realistic expectations are injured & abandoned by surgeons whose true colors are revealed when cosmetic surgery goes awry.
If you are thinking of having cosmetic surgery, read this website first.
This is what I looked like only a few months BEFORE my facelift at MGH:
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Below: 14 months AFTER facelift & rhinoplasty at MGH
Below: AFTER Revision Facelift by in 2001
(Note: The above photos (post-op revision) have not been updated since 2007. Thus, they do not depict the devastating degeneration of my condition. I simply do not have the energy or strength to do this by myself any more, and do not wish to impose upon my friends any further. It takes considerable time, effort and for me, a great deal of physically exhausting discomfort to take a series of photos or video footage.)
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On 11/24/1997 I had a facelift & lower blepharoplasty. 8 weeks later, I had a rhinoplasty at the same clinic, Mass General’s Plastic Surgery Residents’ Clinic. Massive swelling after the nose job, supervised by Dr. Joel Feldman, permanently damaged all soft tissue involved in the face/neck lift,hanging sack of flesh, leaving my face a stretched and detached from the underlying muscles. I trusted the surgeons at MGH when they said 8 weeks was sufficient time between operations. These doctors would never subject private patients to operations within this imprudent time frame. I was a guinea pig. In the duplicitous setting of the major teaching hospital, even the best Chief Resident is forced by superiors to use experimental techniques without knowledge or consent of the patient. This is the way they teach young doctors to lie. I witnessed it first hand and live with the consequences every day.
These pages tell the devastating tale of a life altered by cosmetic surgery and corruption within the medical profession. This website contains photographic documentation, medical records and correspondence which uncover the reality of the injury as well as the malicious means doctors and their attorneys engage when outspoken patients reveal professional duplicity and incompetence.
In April 18 2001, I traveled to Indianapolis for a “revision” facelift to re-establish adhesion of detached soft tissue. I awoke from this operation unable to breathe with my tongue obstructing my airway, inability to lift my head, close my jaw, severe pain & pressure in my ears, tinnitus & hearing loss. Since then, I have not had a single moment without suffering worsening of all these “symptoms” … Photos: Neck Gridlock
If you think the horror stories only happen to other people, think again. I was an extremely well informed patient- the “perfect candidate” for cosmetic surgery. I cut doctors more slack than most because I lived and worked with an M.D. for 12 years. I was the last person something like this could happen to… but it did. There is only one way you can guarantee this never happens to you. Refuse to subject your healthy body to an operation you do not need! Nobody NEEDS a facelift, nose, job, or any other cosmetic procedure. I am here to tell you that your concern about your appearance is your major problem, not your appearance. Stop looking in the mirror, stop comparing yourself with others, and start to appreciate and respect your healthy body. Don’t gamble your most precious asset, your health, for anything.
