March 24, 2026 • 36 mins
What would you do if a “quick fix” changed your body forever?
At just 22 years old, Brittany thought she was making a simple decision—a quick, low-cost liposuction procedure to feel more confident in her post-pregnancy body. What was marketed as “lunchtime lipo” quickly turned into a life-altering medical nightmare that would follow her for years.
In this powerful episode of Plastic Surgery Uncensored, Dr. Rady Rahban sits down with Brittany as she opens up about the reality of her experience: severe scar tissue, skin adhesions, and an abdomen left drastically disfigured. The physical damage was only part of the story—the emotional toll ran just as deep, leaving her feeling like she had no options for repair.
Years later, after having two more children, Brittany faced even more complications, including severe diastasis recti and a painful hernia. Determined to find a solution, she consulted multiple surgeons—only to be told time and time again that nothing could be done.
But was that really the end of her story?
This episode dives into the risks of rushed, low-cost procedures, the long-term consequences patients aren’t always warned about, and what happens when hope feels out of reach. Brittany’s story is one of resilience, hard truths, and the search for restoration.
Stay tuned for Part Two—where her journey takes an unexpected turn.
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At just 22 years old, Brittany thought she was making a simple decision—a quick, low-cost liposuction procedure to feel more confident in her post-pregnancy body. What was marketed as “lunchtime lipo” quickly turned into a life-altering medical nightmare that would follow her for years.
In this powerful episode of Plastic Surgery Uncensored, Dr. Rady Rahban sits down with Brittany as she opens up about the reality of her experience: severe scar tissue, skin adhesions, and an abdomen left drastically disfigured. The physical damage was only part of the story—the emotional toll ran just as deep, leaving her feeling like she had no options for repair.
Years later, after having two more children, Brittany faced even more complications, including severe diastasis recti and a painful hernia. Determined to find a solution, she consulted multiple surgeons—only to be told time and time again that nothing could be done.
But was that really the end of her story?
This episode dives into the risks of rushed, low-cost procedures, the long-term consequences patients aren’t always warned about, and what happens when hope feels out of reach. Brittany’s story is one of resilience, hard truths, and the search for restoration.
Stay tuned for Part Two—where her journey takes an unexpected turn.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Welcome to another episode of Plastic Surgery. I'n censored.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm your host, Doctor Roddy Rabon, and we have a
spectacular episodes waiting for you. So I am as always
excited about every episode, this one no different. But I
really this one has a very deep connection to me because,
as always, we're blessed to have patients on the show,
and I love all of my patients. But some journeys
(00:29):
are longer than others, and today's journey is quite a
long journey, and I think you are all going to
learn a tremendous amount from our dialogue today. So we're
going to try to split this up into two episodes
because there's a ton to digest here and hopefully you
will enjoy both episodes. So we are blessed to have
(00:50):
Brittany from Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee here with us today, who
has flown in just for you listeners, because we begged
her to come in. Because I think her journey, while
it was long, arduous, painful, costly, difficult, has a happy ending.
And through every one of these journeys, you have so
much you can learn, and there is so much a digest.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Thank you for having me on aesthetic to.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Be here, lovely to have you here. Okay, so let's
just start out with the basics. We always start out
with the basics, and we have two journeys that we
often discuss here on our show. One is a journey
of a primary journey, which means I had some concern
and I went and had surgery and it all worked out.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And then more often than not, we have a.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Secondary or complicated or revision or redo journey, which is
the journey of yours, which is I did X, Y
and Z went terribly wrong and as a result, we
had to fix that.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And that is your journey, and we want.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
To talk about how you got here, because I think
that in and of itself is an entire episode.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
So you have three beautiful children.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
And like so many people, you had one of your
children very young, so you call yourself a teen mom
what have you.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
And you have a.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Beautiful child, but you have that child very young, and
as a result of having a being a young mother,
often young moms are.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Overwhelmed and make often bad choices.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And that's sort of where this journey started.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Right. So you were how old when you had your
first surgery, my first surgery.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I was about twenty two years old.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Twenty two years old, So you had a baby, uncomplicated,
everything went great, vaginal delivery, and after the surgery, like
so many women, you had a little bit of redundant fat,
mommy pooch, stubborn fat, whatever you want to call it. Right,
And as a young mom, you were not very wealthy, right,
(03:02):
and you were a bit insecure with your new body. Yeah, right,
because you went from never having had babies to having
your first child. So there's a dramatic change in your
physique and you thought to yourself, I want to fix
this stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yes, this stomach does not match this.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Face, right, the stomach doesn't match your face perfect. So
you do what so many people do, is you say, okay,
let me.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Just fix this.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
There's got to be an easy fix to this. And
so tell me what transpire there. So here you are,
you're a young teen mom, you had a baby, Your
body doesn't look right.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
You tried to lose the weight.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
There's some stubborn fat left, and so what do you
do next.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I just started looking for solutions and I came across
a thing. Back then, it was called smart LiPo, right.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So smart LiPo, and everybody who's been listening to me
for years now knows that all LiPo, as far as
I'm concerned, is created equal in that it's really basically
the same concept. But then there are different adjectives that
you add in the front of it. Slim LiPo, smart LiPo,
a laser LiPo, ultrasound LiPo, tickle me a LiPo.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
There's all these things.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
And what smart LiPo is and was because it still exists,
is laser LiPo, which basically is.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You use heat.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
From a laser and you go in at first and
you use a smaller wand and you melt with heat
the fat and then you subsequently suck it out. So
where traditional liposuction is just sucking it out, this is
you melt it first and then suck it out. So
you're like, okay, I read about this smart lipoe and
(04:47):
what was it?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
What was so unique about it? The way they had
advertised you.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
It sounded amazing. No downtime. I remember, you know, I
had a job, so I had to work right so
I could miss work. I believe I did it on
a Friday so that I could be back at work
by Monday, right, And it was no downtime. I was
you can be awake during the procedure. So there was
like it wasn't surgery correct. So it caught my eye
(05:16):
and I was like, I want to do this, and
I took my income text rEFInd money, and I booked
me an appointment in Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Right, So let's start right there, because this is the
beginning of the pitfalls the web, if you will, where
it's the marketing machinery and web. So we as surgeons
know that for patients, there are certain obstacles that prevent
you from doing surgery. Number one, not in any particular order,
(05:46):
is down time. Everybody has shit to do, whether it's work,
take care of their family, you know, go to school.
Very few people in the universe can just recover with
no worries. So the idea that there is a procedure
doesn't matter, whatever it is with no downtime is immediately desirable.
(06:10):
Number two, patients are afraid of anesthesia. So the notion
that you can do it awake or with a little
bit of sedation is so desirable for two reasons. One
it mitigates your anxiety of general anesthesia, and two it
automatically makes you feel like it's nothing. Oh, this is nothing.
I mean, if I'm awake, for the love of God,
(06:30):
I mean, dental cleaning is awake.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Three.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Cost is another huge obstacle. So you decided you're going
to do this slim light But which, by the way,
is these types of awake quickie lunchtime recovery type procedures
are done everywhere in the nation. And they not only
are lipeos suctions, it's facelifts and eyelids and.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
All kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And so you google it and you come across someone
who's adverts ties, right, and what cut your eye about that?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
In general? Was there anything in particular or was the
first guy that came up?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Honestly, it was probably the first guy that came up.
I didn't see any I didn't see many doctors offering
that in Memphis, Tennessee. That gave me options that I
could be with my child. You know, I was home,
so I was like, I can go to that doctor,
get it done, and I'll be fine. Sure.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
So there's a local guy, so I don't have to travel.
That's another huge plus. So you go online and you
book a console. Did you dig into this guy, did
you check out his reviews. Did you look at his
before and afters? Did you look at his medical boards?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
No? Did you see if he had any lawsuits? No? Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
So while that sounds like, oh well, then of course, well,
very few people actually do that.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Maybe today people look.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
At before and afters a little more because it's readily
available on social media.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I think I did look at the photos on the website.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, but you did pretty much as much research as
a lot of people do, which is you kind of
got onto the superficial.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
You went on a website. It was attractive, it was clean.
The guy had a white coat.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I mean it says he's a cosmetic surgeon, and you're like,
sounds good to me. So you get to your console
and you see this guy. What was your impression? How
did that go?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
He was very nice. He told me that he could
have me bikini ready, and you know, I was excited
about that because I hadn't been in a bikini since
I was sixteen seventeen years old, right, So I was like, yes,
you know, I'm finally going to get the body out
of I want. And I went for it.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And so he used some more advertising lingo bikini ready,
is a very popular terminology, right, because it invokes this
idea that I'm going to get back to my lifestyle
and it's going to be fun and I get to
be with my kids and my husband on the beach
and whatever. And this procedure he told you'd be awake. Right,
And what was the cost of this procedure?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
It was about forty five hundred.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Okay, so very standard costs something sub five grand, which frankly,
this was done.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
In what year I believe, twenty twelve.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Twenty twelve.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Still a lot of money, right, forty five hundred bucks
for some light of was the abdomen and love handles
or what area?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
It was just lower abdomen, actually.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Right, just the lower abdomen, mommy pooch area. Got it so,
couldn't be more excited. You set everything up. The day
of the procedure comes and tell me how that all goes.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I remember they gave me prescriptions. I took my medicine
before I came. When I got there, they numbed me up,
gave me more medicines. I was very loopy, right, and
I remember I remember everything. They took like two leaders. Effect.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
They showed me two leaders, like two leaders from just
your lower belly.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, yeah, And well, how tall are you too? How
much did you weigh at the time?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Roughly roughly one hundred and thirty.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
So I want you to listen, if you're listening, five
two hundred and thirty pounds. So she was absolutely in
good shape. She was not overweight, not obese, not two
hundred and fifty pounds, just a relatively fit mom who
has a little bit of stubborn fat. Anyone who has
a child knows exactly what I'm talking about. Anyone who
doesn't have a child knows exactly what I'm talking about.
Every man knows what I'm talking about. You wake up
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and there's two leaders, two canisters full of fat sitting there,
and they're very excited because surgeons who do light pul
like to brag about the number of canisters.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
And you're thinking to yourself.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Like, oh, this came off of me, Like I couldn't
believe that much fat was in me. Sure, yeah, So
I wake up, I'm wrapped up. He tells me, take
it easy. I believe, gave me pain medicine. I was
back to work. He gave me a garment and I
think I went for my first follow up, and I
(11:00):
had an indention around my belly button. My belly button
was close shut tight.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Right, So your belly button for all intensive purposes when
you went to your first follow up had disappeared, gone, gone, okay, So.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I've seen it until he took the garment off from you, got.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It, And that in and of itself would evoke massive
panic in me. Yes, okay, And then there's this weird,
if you will, indentation or massive ravine or dent right
through the middle of your abum and communicating to your
belly button. Yes, and you obviously freaked out, and you said,
(11:39):
what the F?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And then what he he say?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
He actually, looking back, I know now that he was
because I know that he didn't know what he was doing,
because you know what, I went a second round. He
offered a second round.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Okay, So let's not get ahead of ourselves, okay, because
that's already like that's like adding injury to insult. So
you take off the garment. You see this massive abnormality,
and he tells you, I bet you a million bucks,
it's normal.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You're swollen.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Do some lymphatic massage, do something, give it time, YadA YadA, yes.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Which he did for free the massages.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Right, So he's offering you to lymphatic massage it, right.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
And he's gonna work itself and it's.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Gonna work itself out. And are you are you alarmed
at this point or you just like.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I'm trusting the process at this point. God, I'm hoping
that it's gonna loosen up and get back to its
normal state.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, so you're you're hoping it'll be straight and flat
and smooth as opposed to concave, indented and missing value mine. So,
how much time goes by before you realize that it's
not getting better and that he's gonna and then he
begins to offer you to revise it.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Probably a month goes by and he offered to do
another round of l both because I had fit at
the top, I believe, so he offered to do the
top part.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Okay, So a month goes by, you go in clear
as day things are not getting better. If anything, things
are getting worse, because that's how this works. You're swollen
at first, and as the swelling goes down, new irregularities
start to show up. And as time goes on, you
and he both clearly recognize that this is not getting better.
(13:25):
What's not getting better the major dent in the middle
of your abdomen. And of course now it looks as
though the top of your abdomen has too much fat
in it.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Right, because the top of your abin wasn't even an issue.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
You didn't even go in for the top of your
abinit totally normal, wasn't even a problem. But since he's
removed two leaders from your lower abdomen, now your upper
abdomen looks excess relative.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
So I look thetformed right.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
So since he did that, this is so common. I
want you to all listen. It is every I would
say fifty plus percent of revision, as I do in
my practice. The patient has had two surgeries by the
guy that did them wrong. You understand what I'm trying
to say, because at the time you cannot believe that
this is this is happening, and this doctor who realizes
(14:13):
that they fucked up, is thinking themselves, Hey, all offer
to fix your nose again. Hey, I'll offer to fix
your breast again. And you're think yourself, okay, well fix it,
fix it, and you spent the money and you're already
committed to this person. But if you think about it,
they're the one that messed you up. So in all
intentsive purposes, this is a catastrophic error, but you don't
(14:35):
realize at the time because they're the abuser and you're going.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Back to the abuser. And so usually if they make
such a huge I'm not talking about some.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Small thing like you have surgery and you have a
small little issue or whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I'm talking about a major error. A major error is.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Caused from incompetence. Not a small error because that's from surgery,
but a major error. Nine out of ten times it
is incompetence. So the idea that this incompetent person and it's
going to fix the incompetency that they could it just compounded.
So a month later you go back and you of
course trusting the process, and you're such a sweetheart, and
why wouldn't you allow this?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
And so what happens.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Then we do another light bol session. I feel like
the top part did get flatter, and then I developed
major scar tissue in my abdomen.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
What does that mean to you? Explain what that means?
Major scar tishes.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
It was just a big heart lump in my belly.
I literally had no fit left right, and I.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Can tell you when we eventually got to meet years later,
I told you that the problem that had occurred is
that he had been way too aggressive a LAH two
leaders of fat and because this technology uses heat, he
had burnt you essentially from the inside, and your skin
(16:00):
had adhered to your abdominal wall. In other words, your
skin melted onto your abdominal wall in the areas that
he had over removed, and basically it became a rigid rock.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Of scar tissue.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
So you have regular abdomen, then you have live resuction
to abdomen, and then you have scarred down abdomen and
this really large section of your abdomen that's just plastered
onto your belly.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Right, Yes, lumps everywhere, but one particular area was my
left side was just.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Rock hard, rock hard, right.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Okay, so you did that and then how did so
what happened over the next several months with this guy.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
We did massages and it just it wasn't getting better.
He just kept telling me the compression garment was making
then denteons he blamed it on this compression.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
So here comes the blame game. This is every you know,
when people, you know, when you.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Go watch TV, the compression garment that he told me
to get.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You know what's interesting is when you watch shows about
people who get abused, right, abusive relationships like husbands and
or wives, it's.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Such a classic process.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
They're narcissistic, then they abuse you, then they love bomb you,
then they blame you like it's such a tip. This
is a typical situation. So the doctor first says it's nothing,
then they agree to fix it. Then when they can't
fix it, they get frustrated. When they can't frustrated, they
find a way to blame the patient for the outcome.
You didn't massage enough, you didn't wear the garment right,
(17:29):
you were the wrong garment, you were too tight. You
have some way of blaming you for their error.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
As clear as.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Day, I remember him telling me even I had a
sit down job, he telled me, sitting too long impacted
those results.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Right, So rather than following on his sword and saying, wow,
I'm so sorry this you know I made a mistake,
he's now turning it around and blaming you. So how
did that whole thing kind of dissolve out? What happened
at that point?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I just got to the point where I woke up
and said this is not working. I kept going back
for the massages, and I just said, I'm not going back.
It's not right. Nothing's working. After that, that's when I
took it upon myself too, I guess do my research
right later found out after the fact that he was
(18:22):
just a general er doctor.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Okay, so did you guys hear that he was an
er doctor? Don don doned plot twist. So that's what
happens people. This isn't like, oh that poor girl, she's
just in some whole.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Bunk little place out Memphis.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
This happens every single day everywhere in the country. All ages,
all races, all creates, all money, doesn't matter. We preach
about it on the show over and over again. Cosmetic
versus plastic, surgeon board certified me, leading advertisements, I'm not
a big fan of LiPo, whatever, whatever, And I can
(19:05):
bring you a thousand more guests and repeat this over
and over again. And this is the story. The story
is that there are untrained people who take weekend courses.
Er doctors are them, Interventional radiologist obgyns. And I can
go on and on as if you're listening for the
first time and your mouth is on the floor. Close it,
and then they go and they get a cosmetic surgery
(19:28):
certificate of what sort? And then if they are board
certified in er, board certified in obgyn, they say they're
a board certified cosmetic surgeon, which is nonsense, but no
one knows that. And yes, you did your homework after fact, yes,
absolutely that falls on you.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
But this asshole shouldn't be doing this.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
It's like saying, shame on that twelve year old for
getting abducted by the ice cream truck guy's's it's a
twelve year old. You're a patient, you're un you shouldn't
have to fend through this. But as I've said over
and over again, there is no overriding watchdog. The government's
not helping you, there are no medical association. It's your
wild wild West. You're on your own. So you went back.
(20:12):
That ends up happening, and at some point it's interesting,
did you did you get.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Your money back?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I did not?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Did you did you turn.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Him into the California to the Tennessee Medical Board?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Did that?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I did not?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
So I actually felt ashamed.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Then that's what That's exactly what happens. And then patients
just disappeared. So then the assailant. I'm telling you, I
keep saying this. It parallels exactly like abuse in a relationship. Yeah,
the assailant gets away with it and then continue and
then continues to.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Do the shit because the person who was abused.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Feels ashamed, and so they just kind of just let
it go instead of writing them up to the Tennessee
Medical Board, going on Google and real self and blasting
his ass, asking for your money back, getting a lawyer,
and being on the aggressive. You guys, as patients just
want this to go way. Yeah, so it goes away
because you go.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Away because I don't do anything.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Okay, And twelve years goes by, twelve years of your
prime years? Right, How old are you at this time?
You're in your mid twenties and early thirties. Where from
your recount were you confident? Were you self confident? Were
you walking around and sexy cloak?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
What we know?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I just from that point, I just thought that this
was something that I would have to have to live
with forever. Honestly, I was ashamed too. I didn't even
know what steps to take to try and fix it.
I didn't know what to do. But big T shirts,
nothing fitted.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
What about intimacy.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
What about when you would want you were single time,
right single at the time. So now then you've got
to go back out there because people don't understand people.
You know, the biggest part about this that's so heavy
is if it's just you and you, you'll figure it out.
But most people, you know, they have an intimate partner
and they got to go out and date with their
breasts and their face and their scars and their whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
So I'm assuming that wasn't fun.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
No, always covered up, make sure my abdominal areas covered
when it was time to get intimate, or you know,
I would always high turn the lights off, sure all
that to make sure that I wasn't saying got it?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
So you find an amazing partner. You subsequently go on
to have two more beautiful children in the last five years.
And wait, the situation gets worse. So now you have
the damage from the lipissuction. Your abdam in looks scarred
and lumpy, and you can't even understand unless we show
you the images. There are bad life pstuction outcomes and
(23:01):
then there's horrible. And you're in the horrible category right
because you have this whole half of your avenue that's
plastered onto your abdominal wall.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Then you go have two more beautiful children, now a
total of three, and you develop what.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I developed, a hernia and diastasis.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Rec die, right, So we talk about that a lot,
obviously because it's an area that I sort of sub
specialize in, but all plastic surgeons do. You develop a
classic outcome from someone who's had children, which is number one,
Your muscles separate and you have this sort of additional bulge.
And then in addition, if that diastasis is big enough,
which yours was significant, you develop a hernia in the
(23:42):
middle of your avevien so to add injury to insult,
insult to injury, whichever the saying is. Now you have
this abdominal wall plus this huge protuberance plus this hernia
coming through the middle of your abvenal.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Like if it wasn't bad, it.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Got worse, it got worse, and I'm like, oh my gosh,
like I have to do something. I was desperate.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
You have a life partner who's fantastic guy, and you
basically are unrecognizable as far as your avenue is concerned.
You can't even hide it anymore because you have this
dice stasis. So you muster the effort and the mental
fortitude to say, all right, let me see if there's
(24:26):
you know, it's been a decade, it's been ten years.
Let me see if there's anything I can do about it. Now.
This time you were more mature. This time you have
more money. You're not You're not Elon Musk, but you
like you weren a twenty three year old who for
whom five thousand dollars was like the end all be all.
So tell me what you do this time around, now
with the additional issues that you gained.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
So this time around, I learned from my mistakes. The
first thing that I wanted to do was to do
my research. Oat that itself took months of just trying
to find patients who look like me. I could never
find anyone that that I associated myself with as far
(25:12):
as like the situation, no one looked as bad as me.
I will say that I could not find that anywhere online.
I couldn't. I couldn't find it. But I found, you know,
complicated corrections surgeons who did corrections with the lip boat.
And I started my consultation process with these doctors.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Right, So, in total, how many physicians did you see
this time for your diastasis, hernia and life astruction complications?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
How many doctors did you see?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Five?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Five? So five is.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
A solid number, not a Memphis right, So this time around,
and I want you all to listen. And why have
we made an entire episode about this whole thing is
because everything that that Britney experience happens every single day
to thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people. So
the second time around, shame on you the first time,
(26:11):
shame on me the second time.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
If I don't do it.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
You saw five people rather than the one you went
out of Memphis, not because Memphis is shit and is terrible,
but if you can't find what you're looking for locally,
you don't just well, I need.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
A wallpaper specialist.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
There isn't any Okay, well fuck it, I'll just use
a floor specialist.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
No, you need a wallpaper specialist.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
And these doctors were waere where were the places you
went to?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
See? Massachusetts, North Carolina, Baltimore. And it was a doctor
in California, another doctor in California.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
So here you are spending a ton of time and
a ton of money. If you're listening, that's what it takes.
You don't have the money, the time, the resources, the fortitude,
You're just going to end up in the same situation.
So bravo this time around, You've done homework, taken months,
find and identified doctors as best as you could who
(27:10):
you thought maybe had the skill set, and then physically
spent the time and money and you went to them.
And so so I was.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
No longer looking for just a tummy tuck doctor. I
was looking for a surgeon, a corrective surgeon, because I
felt like this was going to be a corrective surgery.
Got it, And each consultation I was either told no,
(27:37):
they wouldn't touch me, or I just wasn't a good candidate.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
So you went to these guys, you came in.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
These are people that you researched, arguably, people that were
very good and kind of as they advertised, specialized in
reconstructive revisional surgery. And they said to you, either flat
out no or indirectly know because you're not a good candidate.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Did they explain you why? What were they worried about?
Speaker 3 (28:06):
They were worried about my skin dying, necrosis.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Necrosis, So that means that they were worried that if
you elevate, lift, manipulate the skin that was scarred down
and adhering to your abdomen, that that skin had a risk,
a reasonable risk of not getting blood supply, turning black
and dying. We call that necrosis like gangreen of a
toe or something. Right, So I imagine that's just devastating
(28:30):
because like, yeah, first time.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Research what that was, and I'm like, oh my gosh,
which scared me because I'm like, I don't want.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah, you don't.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
You know, as much as your abdomen is not good,
you don't want another level of catasphy Right.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
It's like, I'm desperate, but I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Right, So here you are.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
And I can imagine because, as I told you on
many occasions, my wife and I have been struggling with
her medical condition and there's nothing more discouraging than having
a condition and having experts quote unquote tell you there's
nothing they can do that. It's like just just for
the jugular, Like you're praying that some guy somewhere in
the middle of nowhere has some unique skill that can
(29:07):
help you, like a superhero. And when you go to
these people and they're like, sorry, can't help you, And I'm.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Searching for it, like the best doctors, because I'm like,
I want someone who's going to do it right.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
So then you went finally, like you said, the fourth
guy brought up the diastasis for the first time, right, the.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
North Carolina doctor. Yes, he was the one that said
he couldn't help me, but he said, you have a
case of diastasius recti. And this was a virtual consultation
and I had never heard of it. No one told
me that I had diastasis recti.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
No O B, no plastic surgeon.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
And now you've seen four other people has said the
words to you, diastasis recti.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
So this guy in North Carolina virtually says, hey, listen,
I can't help you, which is still not very helpful.
But hey, by the way, you have diastasis rectite in
addition to these issues.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Okay, So what happened then?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
So I went down off rabbit hole researching the diastasis
recti thing, and he said, you need to find a
doctor that specialized specializes in it. So I'm researching it, like,
what the hell is this? Like, where do I find
a doctor that does this? So I went on real
(30:29):
self because I was trying to find you know, the
top doctors and board certified, and I came across you.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Oh well, then definitely real self is a big mistake.
The money is working. Our advertising worked.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
So with you and another doctor, I will say that
and the other the other doctor actually had an open lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Great, so we're a winner.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
So yeah, okay, so you figure out diastasis and work
backwards reconstructed it found me through diastasis.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Awesome.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Then I did my homework on you.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Then you did your homework on you, and despite that,
you still came and you and I had our first
consultation in twenty twenty two. Twenty twenty two, right, and
we did virtually because at this point you've been to
six doctors and you spend thousands and thousands of dollars
on travel and hotel and Eric Spence and you and
I did a virtual and I said, wow, you're super sweet.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I'm so sorry this happened to you. And what did
I tell you?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
He said, I need you to come here, and I
need to put my hands on it. I need to
touch it. I need to see it and touch it.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Because when I looked at your photos and while virtual
is awesome, I have patients to come here from Dubai.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
I have patients to come here from England. Some things
you look.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
On you're like, oh, oh yeah, no problem, Oh yeah,
Saggy Brescott a left, oh big nose.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I can fix some things.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I don't know. I can't tell you. I cannot give
you no yes this that without physically physician physically examining you.
And I said to you, I'm sorry, I can't give
you any advice without physically examining you because I need
to check the quality of your skin with my hands.
(32:21):
A photo doesn't do it justice, no video will do
it justice. And then I said, I cannot guarantee you
that if you come here, I will be able to
help you, but certainly, if you want to have a dialogue,
a valuable one, I need you to come in. I
recognize you've spent a lot of money, but without a
(32:41):
bona fide in person exam, I can't help you, right right?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Would you think I.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Was a little discouraged because I felt like you were
going to reject me because I've been getting so many no's,
nose nos. I actually went to another door in Beverly
Hills and was very disappointed with the consultation. So I
was very discouraged at the time, but I said, I'm
gonna go and see what happens.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
And so I tell you that's what's really important. You
guys all have to listen to this. If you're in
a terrible situation as you were, and you keep getting
rejected as you were, the only thing that's going.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
To save you is you.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Yeah, and something within you, and I give you credit,
something within you said to you that, hey, I think
there's a solution, and I got to find out how.
And you stayed on it. And despite the money and
the time and the rejections, you kept going because the
truth of the matter is that had you given up
(33:44):
at any time along the way, it would have been reasonable.
Right anytime the word necrosis, I'm out, I'm checked out.
We can't help you, I'm checked out, the diastasis, Oh
my god, I got a hernia. I'm checked out, right,
And so I went to Beverly Hills. This guy charged
me X thousands of dollars. I checked out, But you
said okay, and you get coming. And I think that
(34:07):
says a lot about you. And if people are in
this similar situation, our goal with these podcasts is to
prevent you from getting to where you were, and if
you're where you are, to find a solution. Right, So
I think that says a tremendous amount. So, without giving
away what we ended up doing and where you are,
you ended up coming in for an exam, right, yes,
(34:28):
and in that exam, you and I were able to
come up with something a plan, and by virtue of
the fact that you're sitting here before me, we must
have done something and you must have been happy, and
this must have been a success.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
It must have been.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
So if you want to know what.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
The hell we did and what happened, well, you're just
going to have to listen to the next episode because.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
It's gonna We're gonna give the big reveal.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
But I really wanted us to dedicate an entire episode
to the slow and incremental process of how you came
to where you are, because it is repeated day in
and day out, and there's nothing unique about your story.
It is nothing about being African American or in Tennessee,
or not having money or being young. It's just simply
(35:15):
the lay of the land. So we're grateful for you
sharing your story. We're going to do a second episode.
If you guys want to find out what ends up happening,
well you're going to have to tune into part two.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
And for now, that's a rap.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Tune in for the Tune in for the second episode
of Plastic Surgery and Censored.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
As always, I'm your host, doctor roder Rbond.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
If you liked our If you like our show, so
I imagine you do because you're listening. I always request
two things at at the end of every show. One,
go write something positive.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Go write a review. It helps everyone feel motivated.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Behind this camera, there's a bunch of people who come
and give their time and energy. We do this on
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share this story is much Share our podcaster as many
people as you can because you don't know who the
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and if they don't have access to this information, then
they'll only know about it after the fact. So anyways,
(36:15):
that's a wrap.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Until next time.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I'm your host, Doctor Roddy Ravan signing off on Plastic
Surgery uncensored
Welcome to another episode of Plastic Surgery. I'n censored.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm your host, Doctor Roddy Rabon, and we have a
spectacular episodes waiting for you. So I am as always
excited about every episode, this one no different. But I
really this one has a very deep connection to me because,
as always, we're blessed to have patients on the show,
and I love all of my patients. But some journeys
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are longer than others, and today's journey is quite a
long journey, and I think you are all going to
learn a tremendous amount from our dialogue today. So we're
going to try to split this up into two episodes
because there's a ton to digest here and hopefully you
will enjoy both episodes. So we are blessed to have
(00:50):
Brittany from Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee here with us today, who
has flown in just for you listeners, because we begged
her to come in. Because I think her journey, while
it was long, arduous, painful, costly, difficult, has a happy ending.
And through every one of these journeys, you have so
much you can learn, and there is so much a digest.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Thank you for having me on aesthetic to.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Be here, lovely to have you here. Okay, so let's
just start out with the basics. We always start out
with the basics, and we have two journeys that we
often discuss here on our show. One is a journey
of a primary journey, which means I had some concern
and I went and had surgery and it all worked out.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And then more often than not, we have a.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Secondary or complicated or revision or redo journey, which is
the journey of yours, which is I did X, Y
and Z went terribly wrong and as a result, we
had to fix that.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And that is your journey, and we want.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
To talk about how you got here, because I think
that in and of itself is an entire episode.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
So you have three beautiful children.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
And like so many people, you had one of your
children very young, so you call yourself a teen mom
what have you.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
And you have a.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Beautiful child, but you have that child very young, and
as a result of having a being a young mother,
often young moms are.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Overwhelmed and make often bad choices.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And that's sort of where this journey started.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Right. So you were how old when you had your
first surgery, my first surgery.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I was about twenty two years old.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Twenty two years old, So you had a baby, uncomplicated,
everything went great, vaginal delivery, and after the surgery, like
so many women, you had a little bit of redundant fat,
mommy pooch, stubborn fat, whatever you want to call it. Right,
And as a young mom, you were not very wealthy, right,
(03:02):
and you were a bit insecure with your new body. Yeah, right,
because you went from never having had babies to having
your first child. So there's a dramatic change in your
physique and you thought to yourself, I want to fix
this stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yes, this stomach does not match this.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Face, right, the stomach doesn't match your face perfect. So
you do what so many people do, is you say, okay,
let me.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Just fix this.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
There's got to be an easy fix to this. And
so tell me what transpire there. So here you are,
you're a young teen mom, you had a baby, Your
body doesn't look right.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
You tried to lose the weight.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
There's some stubborn fat left, and so what do you
do next.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I just started looking for solutions and I came across
a thing. Back then, it was called smart LiPo, right.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So smart LiPo, and everybody who's been listening to me
for years now knows that all LiPo, as far as
I'm concerned, is created equal in that it's really basically
the same concept. But then there are different adjectives that
you add in the front of it. Slim LiPo, smart LiPo,
a laser LiPo, ultrasound LiPo, tickle me a LiPo.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
There's all these things.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
And what smart LiPo is and was because it still exists,
is laser LiPo, which basically is.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You use heat.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
From a laser and you go in at first and
you use a smaller wand and you melt with heat
the fat and then you subsequently suck it out. So
where traditional liposuction is just sucking it out, this is
you melt it first and then suck it out. So
you're like, okay, I read about this smart lipoe and
(04:47):
what was it?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
What was so unique about it? The way they had
advertised you.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
It sounded amazing. No downtime. I remember, you know, I
had a job, so I had to work right so
I could miss work. I believe I did it on
a Friday so that I could be back at work
by Monday, right, And it was no downtime. I was
you can be awake during the procedure. So there was
like it wasn't surgery correct. So it caught my eye
(05:16):
and I was like, I want to do this, and
I took my income text rEFInd money, and I booked
me an appointment in Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Right, So let's start right there, because this is the
beginning of the pitfalls the web, if you will, where
it's the marketing machinery and web. So we as surgeons
know that for patients, there are certain obstacles that prevent
you from doing surgery. Number one, not in any particular order,
(05:46):
is down time. Everybody has shit to do, whether it's work,
take care of their family, you know, go to school.
Very few people in the universe can just recover with
no worries. So the idea that there is a procedure
doesn't matter, whatever it is with no downtime is immediately desirable.
(06:10):
Number two, patients are afraid of anesthesia. So the notion
that you can do it awake or with a little
bit of sedation is so desirable for two reasons. One
it mitigates your anxiety of general anesthesia, and two it
automatically makes you feel like it's nothing. Oh, this is nothing.
I mean, if I'm awake, for the love of God,
(06:30):
I mean, dental cleaning is awake.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Three.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Cost is another huge obstacle. So you decided you're going
to do this slim light But which, by the way,
is these types of awake quickie lunchtime recovery type procedures
are done everywhere in the nation. And they not only
are lipeos suctions, it's facelifts and eyelids and.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
All kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And so you google it and you come across someone
who's adverts ties, right, and what cut your eye about that?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
In general? Was there anything in particular or was the
first guy that came up?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Honestly, it was probably the first guy that came up.
I didn't see any I didn't see many doctors offering
that in Memphis, Tennessee. That gave me options that I
could be with my child. You know, I was home,
so I was like, I can go to that doctor,
get it done, and I'll be fine. Sure.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
So there's a local guy, so I don't have to travel.
That's another huge plus. So you go online and you
book a console. Did you dig into this guy, did
you check out his reviews. Did you look at his
before and afters? Did you look at his medical boards?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
No? Did you see if he had any lawsuits? No? Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
So while that sounds like, oh well, then of course, well,
very few people actually do that.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Maybe today people look.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
At before and afters a little more because it's readily
available on social media.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I think I did look at the photos on the website.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, but you did pretty much as much research as
a lot of people do, which is you kind of
got onto the superficial.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
You went on a website. It was attractive, it was clean.
The guy had a white coat.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I mean it says he's a cosmetic surgeon, and you're like,
sounds good to me. So you get to your console
and you see this guy. What was your impression? How
did that go?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
He was very nice. He told me that he could
have me bikini ready, and you know, I was excited
about that because I hadn't been in a bikini since
I was sixteen seventeen years old, right, So I was like, yes,
you know, I'm finally going to get the body out
of I want. And I went for it.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And so he used some more advertising lingo bikini ready,
is a very popular terminology, right, because it invokes this
idea that I'm going to get back to my lifestyle
and it's going to be fun and I get to
be with my kids and my husband on the beach
and whatever. And this procedure he told you'd be awake. Right,
And what was the cost of this procedure?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
It was about forty five hundred.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Okay, so very standard costs something sub five grand, which frankly,
this was done.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
In what year I believe, twenty twelve.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Twenty twelve.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Still a lot of money, right, forty five hundred bucks
for some light of was the abdomen and love handles
or what area?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
It was just lower abdomen, actually.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Right, just the lower abdomen, mommy pooch area. Got it so,
couldn't be more excited. You set everything up. The day
of the procedure comes and tell me how that all goes.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I remember they gave me prescriptions. I took my medicine
before I came. When I got there, they numbed me up,
gave me more medicines. I was very loopy, right, and
I remember I remember everything. They took like two leaders. Effect.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
They showed me two leaders, like two leaders from just
your lower belly.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, yeah, And well, how tall are you too? How
much did you weigh at the time?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Roughly roughly one hundred and thirty.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
So I want you to listen, if you're listening, five
two hundred and thirty pounds. So she was absolutely in
good shape. She was not overweight, not obese, not two
hundred and fifty pounds, just a relatively fit mom who
has a little bit of stubborn fat. Anyone who has
a child knows exactly what I'm talking about. Anyone who
doesn't have a child knows exactly what I'm talking about.
Every man knows what I'm talking about. You wake up
(10:28):
and there's two leaders, two canisters full of fat sitting there,
and they're very excited because surgeons who do light pul
like to brag about the number of canisters.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
And you're thinking to yourself.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Like, oh, this came off of me, Like I couldn't
believe that much fat was in me. Sure, yeah, So
I wake up, I'm wrapped up. He tells me, take
it easy. I believe, gave me pain medicine. I was
back to work. He gave me a garment and I
think I went for my first follow up, and I
(11:00):
had an indention around my belly button. My belly button
was close shut tight.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Right, So your belly button for all intensive purposes when
you went to your first follow up had disappeared, gone, gone, okay, So.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I've seen it until he took the garment off from you, got.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It, And that in and of itself would evoke massive
panic in me. Yes, okay, And then there's this weird,
if you will, indentation or massive ravine or dent right
through the middle of your abum and communicating to your
belly button. Yes, and you obviously freaked out, and you said,
(11:39):
what the F?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And then what he he say?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
He actually, looking back, I know now that he was
because I know that he didn't know what he was doing,
because you know what, I went a second round. He
offered a second round.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Okay, So let's not get ahead of ourselves, okay, because
that's already like that's like adding injury to insult. So
you take off the garment. You see this massive abnormality,
and he tells you, I bet you a million bucks,
it's normal.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You're swollen.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Do some lymphatic massage, do something, give it time, YadA YadA, yes.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Which he did for free the massages.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Right, So he's offering you to lymphatic massage it, right.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
And he's gonna work itself and it's.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Gonna work itself out. And are you are you alarmed
at this point or you just like.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I'm trusting the process at this point. God, I'm hoping
that it's gonna loosen up and get back to its
normal state.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah, so you're you're hoping it'll be straight and flat
and smooth as opposed to concave, indented and missing value mine. So,
how much time goes by before you realize that it's
not getting better and that he's gonna and then he
begins to offer you to revise it.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Probably a month goes by and he offered to do
another round of l both because I had fit at
the top, I believe, so he offered to do the
top part.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Okay, So a month goes by, you go in clear
as day things are not getting better. If anything, things
are getting worse, because that's how this works. You're swollen
at first, and as the swelling goes down, new irregularities
start to show up. And as time goes on, you
and he both clearly recognize that this is not getting better.
(13:25):
What's not getting better the major dent in the middle
of your abdomen. And of course now it looks as
though the top of your abdomen has too much fat
in it.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Right, because the top of your abin wasn't even an issue.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
You didn't even go in for the top of your
abinit totally normal, wasn't even a problem. But since he's
removed two leaders from your lower abdomen, now your upper
abdomen looks excess relative.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
So I look thetformed right.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
So since he did that, this is so common. I
want you to all listen. It is every I would
say fifty plus percent of revision, as I do in
my practice. The patient has had two surgeries by the
guy that did them wrong. You understand what I'm trying
to say, because at the time you cannot believe that
this is this is happening, and this doctor who realizes
(14:13):
that they fucked up, is thinking themselves, Hey, all offer
to fix your nose again. Hey, I'll offer to fix
your breast again. And you're think yourself, okay, well fix it,
fix it, and you spent the money and you're already
committed to this person. But if you think about it,
they're the one that messed you up. So in all
intentsive purposes, this is a catastrophic error, but you don't
(14:35):
realize at the time because they're the abuser and you're going.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Back to the abuser. And so usually if they make
such a huge I'm not talking about some.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Small thing like you have surgery and you have a
small little issue or whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I'm talking about a major error. A major error is.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Caused from incompetence. Not a small error because that's from surgery,
but a major error. Nine out of ten times it
is incompetence. So the idea that this incompetent person and it's
going to fix the incompetency that they could it just compounded.
So a month later you go back and you of
course trusting the process, and you're such a sweetheart, and
why wouldn't you allow this?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
And so what happens.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Then we do another light bol session. I feel like
the top part did get flatter, and then I developed
major scar tissue in my abdomen.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
What does that mean to you? Explain what that means?
Major scar tishes.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
It was just a big heart lump in my belly.
I literally had no fit left right, and I.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Can tell you when we eventually got to meet years later,
I told you that the problem that had occurred is
that he had been way too aggressive a LAH two
leaders of fat and because this technology uses heat, he
had burnt you essentially from the inside, and your skin
(16:00):
had adhered to your abdominal wall. In other words, your
skin melted onto your abdominal wall in the areas that
he had over removed, and basically it became a rigid rock.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Of scar tissue.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
So you have regular abdomen, then you have live resuction
to abdomen, and then you have scarred down abdomen and
this really large section of your abdomen that's just plastered
onto your belly.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Right, Yes, lumps everywhere, but one particular area was my
left side was just.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Rock hard, rock hard, right.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Okay, so you did that and then how did so
what happened over the next several months with this guy.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
We did massages and it just it wasn't getting better.
He just kept telling me the compression garment was making
then denteons he blamed it on this compression.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
So here comes the blame game. This is every you know,
when people, you know, when you.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Go watch TV, the compression garment that he told me
to get.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You know what's interesting is when you watch shows about
people who get abused, right, abusive relationships like husbands and
or wives, it's.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Such a classic process.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
They're narcissistic, then they abuse you, then they love bomb you,
then they blame you like it's such a tip. This
is a typical situation. So the doctor first says it's nothing,
then they agree to fix it. Then when they can't
fix it, they get frustrated. When they can't frustrated, they
find a way to blame the patient for the outcome.
You didn't massage enough, you didn't wear the garment right,
(17:29):
you were the wrong garment, you were too tight. You
have some way of blaming you for their error.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
As clear as.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Day, I remember him telling me even I had a
sit down job, he telled me, sitting too long impacted
those results.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Right, So rather than following on his sword and saying, wow,
I'm so sorry this you know I made a mistake,
he's now turning it around and blaming you. So how
did that whole thing kind of dissolve out? What happened
at that point?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I just got to the point where I woke up
and said this is not working. I kept going back
for the massages, and I just said, I'm not going back.
It's not right. Nothing's working. After that, that's when I
took it upon myself too, I guess do my research
right later found out after the fact that he was
(18:22):
just a general er doctor.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Okay, so did you guys hear that he was an
er doctor? Don don doned plot twist. So that's what
happens people. This isn't like, oh that poor girl, she's
just in some whole.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Bunk little place out Memphis.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
This happens every single day everywhere in the country. All ages,
all races, all creates, all money, doesn't matter. We preach
about it on the show over and over again. Cosmetic
versus plastic, surgeon board certified me, leading advertisements, I'm not
a big fan of LiPo, whatever, whatever, And I can
(19:05):
bring you a thousand more guests and repeat this over
and over again. And this is the story. The story
is that there are untrained people who take weekend courses.
Er doctors are them, Interventional radiologist obgyns. And I can
go on and on as if you're listening for the
first time and your mouth is on the floor. Close it,
and then they go and they get a cosmetic surgery
(19:28):
certificate of what sort? And then if they are board
certified in er, board certified in obgyn, they say they're
a board certified cosmetic surgeon, which is nonsense, but no
one knows that. And yes, you did your homework after fact, yes,
absolutely that falls on you.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
But this asshole shouldn't be doing this.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
It's like saying, shame on that twelve year old for
getting abducted by the ice cream truck guy's's it's a
twelve year old. You're a patient, you're un you shouldn't
have to fend through this. But as I've said over
and over again, there is no overriding watchdog. The government's
not helping you, there are no medical association. It's your
wild wild West. You're on your own. So you went back.
(20:12):
That ends up happening, and at some point it's interesting,
did you did you get.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Your money back?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I did not?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Did you did you turn.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Him into the California to the Tennessee Medical Board?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Did that?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I did not?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
So I actually felt ashamed.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Then that's what That's exactly what happens. And then patients
just disappeared. So then the assailant. I'm telling you, I
keep saying this. It parallels exactly like abuse in a relationship. Yeah,
the assailant gets away with it and then continue and
then continues to.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Do the shit because the person who was abused.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Feels ashamed, and so they just kind of just let
it go instead of writing them up to the Tennessee
Medical Board, going on Google and real self and blasting
his ass, asking for your money back, getting a lawyer,
and being on the aggressive. You guys, as patients just
want this to go way. Yeah, so it goes away
because you go.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Away because I don't do anything.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Okay, And twelve years goes by, twelve years of your
prime years? Right, How old are you at this time?
You're in your mid twenties and early thirties. Where from
your recount were you confident? Were you self confident? Were
you walking around and sexy cloak?
Speaker 1 (21:33):
What we know?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I just from that point, I just thought that this
was something that I would have to have to live
with forever. Honestly, I was ashamed too. I didn't even
know what steps to take to try and fix it.
I didn't know what to do. But big T shirts,
nothing fitted.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
What about intimacy.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
What about when you would want you were single time,
right single at the time. So now then you've got
to go back out there because people don't understand people.
You know, the biggest part about this that's so heavy
is if it's just you and you, you'll figure it out.
But most people, you know, they have an intimate partner
and they got to go out and date with their
breasts and their face and their scars and their whatever.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
So I'm assuming that wasn't fun.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
No, always covered up, make sure my abdominal areas covered
when it was time to get intimate, or you know,
I would always high turn the lights off, sure all
that to make sure that I wasn't saying got it?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
So you find an amazing partner. You subsequently go on
to have two more beautiful children in the last five years.
And wait, the situation gets worse. So now you have
the damage from the lipissuction. Your abdam in looks scarred
and lumpy, and you can't even understand unless we show
you the images. There are bad life pstuction outcomes and
(23:01):
then there's horrible. And you're in the horrible category right
because you have this whole half of your avenue that's
plastered onto your abdominal wall.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Then you go have two more beautiful children, now a
total of three, and you develop what.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I developed, a hernia and diastasis.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Rec die, right, So we talk about that a lot,
obviously because it's an area that I sort of sub
specialize in, but all plastic surgeons do. You develop a
classic outcome from someone who's had children, which is number one,
Your muscles separate and you have this sort of additional bulge.
And then in addition, if that diastasis is big enough,
which yours was significant, you develop a hernia in the
(23:42):
middle of your avevien so to add injury to insult,
insult to injury, whichever the saying is. Now you have
this abdominal wall plus this huge protuberance plus this hernia
coming through the middle of your abvenal.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Like if it wasn't bad, it.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Got worse, it got worse, and I'm like, oh my gosh,
like I have to do something. I was desperate.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
You have a life partner who's fantastic guy, and you
basically are unrecognizable as far as your avenue is concerned.
You can't even hide it anymore because you have this
dice stasis. So you muster the effort and the mental
fortitude to say, all right, let me see if there's
(24:26):
you know, it's been a decade, it's been ten years.
Let me see if there's anything I can do about it. Now.
This time you were more mature. This time you have
more money. You're not You're not Elon Musk, but you
like you weren a twenty three year old who for
whom five thousand dollars was like the end all be all.
So tell me what you do this time around, now
with the additional issues that you gained.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
So this time around, I learned from my mistakes. The
first thing that I wanted to do was to do
my research. Oat that itself took months of just trying
to find patients who look like me. I could never
find anyone that that I associated myself with as far
(25:12):
as like the situation, no one looked as bad as me.
I will say that I could not find that anywhere online.
I couldn't. I couldn't find it. But I found, you know,
complicated corrections surgeons who did corrections with the lip boat.
And I started my consultation process with these doctors.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Right, So, in total, how many physicians did you see
this time for your diastasis, hernia and life astruction complications?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
How many doctors did you see?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Five?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Five? So five is.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
A solid number, not a Memphis right, So this time around,
and I want you all to listen. And why have
we made an entire episode about this whole thing is
because everything that that Britney experience happens every single day
to thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people. So
the second time around, shame on you the first time,
(26:11):
shame on me the second time.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
If I don't do it.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
You saw five people rather than the one you went
out of Memphis, not because Memphis is shit and is terrible,
but if you can't find what you're looking for locally,
you don't just well, I need.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
A wallpaper specialist.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
There isn't any Okay, well fuck it, I'll just use
a floor specialist.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
No, you need a wallpaper specialist.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
And these doctors were waere where were the places you
went to?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
See? Massachusetts, North Carolina, Baltimore. And it was a doctor
in California, another doctor in California.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
So here you are spending a ton of time and
a ton of money. If you're listening, that's what it takes.
You don't have the money, the time, the resources, the fortitude,
You're just going to end up in the same situation.
So bravo this time around, You've done homework, taken months,
find and identified doctors as best as you could who
(27:10):
you thought maybe had the skill set, and then physically
spent the time and money and you went to them.
And so so I was.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
No longer looking for just a tummy tuck doctor. I
was looking for a surgeon, a corrective surgeon, because I
felt like this was going to be a corrective surgery.
Got it, And each consultation I was either told no,
(27:37):
they wouldn't touch me, or I just wasn't a good candidate.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
So you went to these guys, you came in.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
These are people that you researched, arguably, people that were
very good and kind of as they advertised, specialized in
reconstructive revisional surgery. And they said to you, either flat
out no or indirectly know because you're not a good candidate.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Did they explain you why? What were they worried about?
Speaker 3 (28:06):
They were worried about my skin dying, necrosis.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Necrosis, So that means that they were worried that if
you elevate, lift, manipulate the skin that was scarred down
and adhering to your abdomen, that that skin had a risk,
a reasonable risk of not getting blood supply, turning black
and dying. We call that necrosis like gangreen of a
toe or something. Right, So I imagine that's just devastating
(28:30):
because like, yeah, first time.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Research what that was, and I'm like, oh my gosh,
which scared me because I'm like, I don't want.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah, you don't.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
You know, as much as your abdomen is not good,
you don't want another level of catasphy Right.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
It's like, I'm desperate, but I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Right, So here you are.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
And I can imagine because, as I told you on
many occasions, my wife and I have been struggling with
her medical condition and there's nothing more discouraging than having
a condition and having experts quote unquote tell you there's
nothing they can do that. It's like just just for
the jugular, Like you're praying that some guy somewhere in
the middle of nowhere has some unique skill that can
(29:07):
help you, like a superhero. And when you go to
these people and they're like, sorry, can't help you, And I'm.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Searching for it, like the best doctors, because I'm like,
I want someone who's going to do it right.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
So then you went finally, like you said, the fourth
guy brought up the diastasis for the first time, right, the.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
North Carolina doctor. Yes, he was the one that said
he couldn't help me, but he said, you have a
case of diastasius recti. And this was a virtual consultation
and I had never heard of it. No one told
me that I had diastasis recti.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
No O B, no plastic surgeon.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
And now you've seen four other people has said the
words to you, diastasis recti.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Got it?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
So this guy in North Carolina virtually says, hey, listen,
I can't help you, which is still not very helpful.
But hey, by the way, you have diastasis rectite in
addition to these issues.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Okay, So what happened then?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
So I went down off rabbit hole researching the diastasis
recti thing, and he said, you need to find a
doctor that specialized specializes in it. So I'm researching it, like,
what the hell is this? Like, where do I find
a doctor that does this? So I went on real
(30:29):
self because I was trying to find you know, the
top doctors and board certified, and I came across you.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Oh well, then definitely real self is a big mistake.
The money is working. Our advertising worked.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
So with you and another doctor, I will say that
and the other the other doctor actually had an open lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Great, so we're a winner.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
So yeah, okay, so you figure out diastasis and work
backwards reconstructed it found me through diastasis.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Awesome.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Then I did my homework on you.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Then you did your homework on you, and despite that,
you still came and you and I had our first
consultation in twenty twenty two. Twenty twenty two, right, and
we did virtually because at this point you've been to
six doctors and you spend thousands and thousands of dollars
on travel and hotel and Eric Spence and you and
I did a virtual and I said, wow, you're super sweet.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I'm so sorry this happened to you. And what did
I tell you?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
He said, I need you to come here, and I
need to put my hands on it. I need to
touch it. I need to see it and touch it.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Because when I looked at your photos and while virtual
is awesome, I have patients to come here from Dubai.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
I have patients to come here from England. Some things
you look.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
On you're like, oh, oh yeah, no problem, Oh yeah,
Saggy Brescott a left, oh big nose.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
I can fix some things.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I don't know. I can't tell you. I cannot give
you no yes this that without physically physician physically examining you.
And I said to you, I'm sorry, I can't give
you any advice without physically examining you because I need
to check the quality of your skin with my hands.
(32:21):
A photo doesn't do it justice, no video will do
it justice. And then I said, I cannot guarantee you
that if you come here, I will be able to
help you, but certainly, if you want to have a dialogue,
a valuable one, I need you to come in. I
recognize you've spent a lot of money, but without a
(32:41):
bona fide in person exam, I can't help you, right right?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Would you think I.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Was a little discouraged because I felt like you were
going to reject me because I've been getting so many no's,
nose nos. I actually went to another door in Beverly
Hills and was very disappointed with the consultation. So I
was very discouraged at the time, but I said, I'm
gonna go and see what happens.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
And so I tell you that's what's really important. You
guys all have to listen to this. If you're in
a terrible situation as you were, and you keep getting
rejected as you were, the only thing that's going.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
To save you is you.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Yeah, and something within you, and I give you credit,
something within you said to you that, hey, I think
there's a solution, and I got to find out how.
And you stayed on it. And despite the money and
the time and the rejections, you kept going because the
truth of the matter is that had you given up
(33:44):
at any time along the way, it would have been reasonable.
Right anytime the word necrosis, I'm out, I'm checked out.
We can't help you, I'm checked out, the diastasis, Oh
my god, I got a hernia. I'm checked out, right,
And so I went to Beverly Hills. This guy charged
me X thousands of dollars. I checked out, But you
said okay, and you get coming. And I think that
(34:07):
says a lot about you. And if people are in
this similar situation, our goal with these podcasts is to
prevent you from getting to where you were, and if
you're where you are, to find a solution. Right, So
I think that says a tremendous amount. So, without giving
away what we ended up doing and where you are,
you ended up coming in for an exam, right, yes,
(34:28):
and in that exam, you and I were able to
come up with something a plan, and by virtue of
the fact that you're sitting here before me, we must
have done something and you must have been happy, and
this must have been a success.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
It must have been.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
So if you want to know what.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
The hell we did and what happened, well, you're just
going to have to listen to the next episode because.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
It's gonna We're gonna give the big reveal.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
But I really wanted us to dedicate an entire episode
to the slow and incremental process of how you came
to where you are, because it is repeated day in
and day out, and there's nothing unique about your story.
It is nothing about being African American or in Tennessee,
or not having money or being young. It's just simply
(35:15):
the lay of the land. So we're grateful for you
sharing your story. We're going to do a second episode.
If you guys want to find out what ends up happening,
well you're going to have to tune into part two.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
And for now, that's a rap.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Tune in for the Tune in for the second episode
of Plastic Surgery and Censored.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
As always, I'm your host, doctor roder Rbond.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
If you liked our If you like our show, so
I imagine you do because you're listening. I always request
two things at at the end of every show. One,
go write something positive.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Go write a review. It helps everyone feel motivated.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Behind this camera, there's a bunch of people who come
and give their time and energy. We do this on
a weekend, so it makes everyone feel good. And secondly,
share this story is much Share our podcaster as many
people as you can because you don't know who the
next Brittany and your friend circle or your family is
and if they don't have access to this information, then
they'll only know about it after the fact. So anyways,
(36:15):
that's a wrap.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Until next time.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I'm your host, Doctor Roddy Ravan signing off on Plastic
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