It is normal for anyone who is about to undergo plastic surgery to feel concerned about the multiple risks that could arise as a result of the procedure or to lose sleep over the latent concern that the results may not be as expected. However, we would never imagine that in this category of concerns there could also be room for one more: that of the cases in which a particular procedure ends up being an “accidental” one.
Can you imagine entering the operating room convinced that you will have the expected procedure, but when you wake up from anesthesia, you realize that your body looks totally different from what you had requested? Well, that’s exactly what happened to a 29-year-old mother from Florida.
A “courtesy mistake”
Tiffany Mills went to the plastic surgeon in order to have a breast reduction. However, a mistake caused the opposite to happen: she had huge implants placed. As if that were not enough, she also underwent an extended abdominoplasty, as well as liposuction, errors that the clinic tried to disguise as “courtesy surgeries”.
The blunder turned into a terrible nightmare for Tiffany, whose huge implants eventually split her skin open, leaving her with open wounds and blood clots in her lungs and legs. Plus, her tummy tuck left her in intense pain because there wasn’t even any extra skin to stretch.
My belly button looked like a slot in a coin bank because they took as much of it out of me as possible.
The mistake turned into a nightmare
The ordeal began in November of last year, when Tiffany, a mother of three, decided to undergo a breast reduction for which she paid more than $8,000 in advance, to stop experiencing back, shoulder and neck pain. due to the weight. However, after waking up from surgery, the woman, who is a nurse, realized something was wrong.
She felt confused and the only thing she could remember was the medical assistant pulling her by the arms to lift her up because they needed the stretcher. It wasn’t until seven hours after she woke up in a hotel, reserved for her postoperative recovery, that she realized there were incisions in her abdomen and they didn’t even keep her under observation, so, without further ado, they took her out of the clinic as soon as could.
On my right nipple the areola had detached. It was like a huge black hole… I knew I had implants too, because I could feel them on my collarbone.
Puzzled, Tiffany called the clinic to find out what had happened, but the receptionist immediately hung up on her. The next day, due to her insistence, she managed to contact someone, who admitted that they had indeed been confused by her procedure.
Instead of finding a solution to her problem, the situation got worse for Tiffany when, two weeks after her ordeal, she had to be admitted to a hospital as an emergency, as her life was in serious danger from the complications.
Since the procedure, the young mother has not stopped fighting with the desire to resume her life, because the cost of the failed surgery has not only been financial, she has also lost months of effort to recover physically and psychologically. Tiffany filed a lawsuit to at least get back the money she invested. However, the clinic is trying to distance itself, assuring that this was what she asked for. How about?