Elsie Soto says she couldn’t move her legs after she had liposuction and fat-transfer surgery last year at a clinic near here. But instead of sending her to a hospital, a nurse took Soto to her own house. Soto says she has no memory of being taken to the hospital two days later — on her mother’s insistence — and needed two blood transfusions when she got there.
A 32-year-old single mother, Soto said she was tired of looking at all the beautifully toned people surrounding her in this popular beach town. She went to three area plastic surgeons before deciding to have her procedures done at Strax Rejuvenation and Aesthetics Institute. It was a simple matter of cost: The other estimates ranged from $10,000 to $12,000; Strax charged $5,000.
But after almost $50,000 in medical bills (including nearly $40,000 for her hospital stay) that insurance won’t cover because the procedure was elective, three months out of work and continued pain down her left leg, Soto now says low-cost, high-volume cosmetic surgery clinics are not the way to go. Full story...
Don't miss:
- Labiaplasty, deforming the vagina... (Graphic)
- Girls as young as 11 seeking designer vagina surgeries in Britain...
- Plastic surgery boom as Asians seek 'western' look...
- I hate my large breasts...
- More Australian women opt for genital plastic surgery...
- Female genital mutilation (FGM) in Africa (graphic)
- Petition against breast ironing in Cameroon...
No comments:
Post a Comment