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Botched Job

Be very careful who you get to perform plastic...

  • 26 Sep 2008

Be very careful who you get to perform plastic surgery. Mine was a total botch job and now I look like a burn victim. The blepharoplasty I had done is a mess and now I live like a hermit because I am too ashamed to face folks. My surgeon refuses to help or reimburse me, telling me to hit the road, basically. Nice eh

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David Williamson performed a botch job on me and refuses to man-up about it. I asked for a refund and he refused and when I asked for a copy of the surgical report it came back altered to protect him against litigation. This is a man I put my face and my trust in and he absolutely let me down. I look a freakish mess like a burn victim, and it's affected my whole outlook on life and my happiness because I avoid people now due to the way I look. Beware bad surgeons. They take your money and run...after wrecking your looks first, that is.

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LifeIsSweet 10 May 2013
thanks for calling out your doctor. how are you doing? i hope you are able to face folks now.
elizabethelizabeth1 4 Oct 2009
I had a bad upper bleph. Five, yes, five revisional surgeries. One eye is still bigger than the other. The doctor did the left eye and she let a student do the right eye. I am severely depressed over the results. I went from a happy person, to a very unhappy person over this. I would recommend NOONE have upper bleph surgery. You just don't know how it will turn out. In my case, the student took too much skin out of the right eye, and my eye is much smaller than the left one. The doctor was more intersted in her student practicing on me than doing a good job. I will never get past this.
IceAgeIII 29 Dec 2009
Thanks for posting.
ccacr 2 Jan 2009
I have been in contact with one patient and have seen blogs on 2 others that are very serious in nature that went to my doctor. (i hate to even call him that because would never let him touch me again) I have not been able to contact them and I wish I could because the one, Cynthia said she is suing him. Her incident cost her $60,000 and a month in the hospital when she got back to the states. If anyone has had contact with her please get her to contact me. The other one live here in Costa Rica in Tamarindo and hers was also of serious nature. She had Dr. Luis da Cruz help her because Fournier would not.
ccacr 31 Dec 2008
no i have not successfully sued but i do already have a lawyer. I know it will be a long process but i am not letting this go without a fight. My friend (costa rican) is helping me. my doctor does not even know what to do now so he can not offer to fix it. and i wouldn't let that arrogant !!!touch me again anyway.
Charlenex3 1 Jan 2009
Good luck with that! If you are successful, it would be great if you enter the info on this blog so that others can attempt the same thing successfully. When you find there are more than 4 women who used the same doctor and had horrid problems shortly after surgery &, who weren't paid enough attention to after surgery, we do need to figure out a way to stop those particular 'surgeons'. I truly hope that this year resolves all of those issues and that you get some good assistance, legally, emotionally, and physically.
Charlenex3 30 Dec 2008
Hi again ccacr: Are you saying that you have successfully sued your doctor? If so, can you send the info so I can pass it along to the 3 women who have all had botched breast surgeries asap please! They are really struggling. Thanks. PS I use the other site on realself.com called costa rica surgeries is it safe
Bonnie Jean 23 Nov 2008
I had Blepharoplasty 3 years ago and it was a very botched job. The plastic surgeon {doctor information edited} stitched my eye up too much and later had to remove the stitch and caused damage to my eye resulting in permanent redness to the eye. My eyes are not symmetrical and look injured all the time. I had beautifal eyes before this, big, clear and bright. It resulted in severe depression and then thoughts of suicide. The surgeon was careless, didn't care about the results he gave me, and did a hacked up butcher job on me and I have to live with it the rest of my life. My life has been ruined because of this - I can barely go out in public. -- Editor note: If you would like to review your experience with a particular provider or clinic, please write your treatment review and enter the provider or clinic name in the field provided.
Charlenex3 5 Dec 2008
Hello Kelowna! I'm originally from Vancouver.. I had an eye/neck/face lift done in Costa Rica almost 3 months ago. Am fairly happy with results... but I am so very sorry to hear about your problems there. While I was recouperating at a ranch in CRica, I met 3 women who had breast augmentation and they have all had severe problems, one just had her breast removed. One of the others is on a machine to fight infection and hoping the gaping hole heals up. The other one is considering going back to her surgeon to have the problems solved. (these 2 women used Dr. Araya) I"m not attempting to blacklist anyone since it wasn't me having the surgery, but some of the docs and recovery places need to be more attentive to their patients problems before their return to the US. Have you found anyone who can help you out in either Canada or the US? I'm attempting to find someone who will take on these women at a greatly reduced cost as we write. Charlene
ccacr 29 Dec 2008
What have you heard about the other Dr. Charlene? And you can sue a doctor in Costa Rica. I have a lawyer and it is through a very good friend that is from Costa Rica. That is why they have their own board of surgeons. The doctor I went to is a member of the American Board.
Charlenex3 30 Dec 2008
Hi Bonnie Jean: What a shame you have had to deal with a botched surgery, especially to the point where you have permanent problems. Have you been to local surgeons (I see you're from Kelowna - I'm originally from Nelson/Vancouver areas) ? Maybe if you try the UBC dept of medicine, they may help you out? It does seem difficult to sue anyone down there from what I hear. Generally they offer that if you come back they'll correct the problem. I've been blogging more on the realself.com page that says costa rica is it safe? Hope that 2009 is a much better year for you! PS. It did take me a full 3 months and I"m still not fully recovered. My eyes were always a little off symetrically previous to surgery and they're still that way. (apparently no one is perfect in that regard). I wish you well!
missy abc 18 Oct 2009
hello how are you. i have the same problem. I hate looking at my eyes. i hate looking at a mirror. to make it worse it twitches! i hate HAtE and its getting worse everyday still to this very dayy
IceAgeIII 29 Dec 2009
I have the same problem, except it is way worst than yours. My eye doctor not only stitched up my eyelids too tight, he also stitched my eyebrows up too pulling it together. He also did some kind of experimental surgery above my forehead. It is hard to describe unless I show you a picture. It was unauthorize, but you know if is hard to find a lawyer to take a botch surgeries if there is no serious injuries. Usually lawyers want cases that are at least a million and over. My face is ruin. My have many surgical scars.
Lynn Antonucci 19 Nov 2008
I went to Costa Rica to have a facelift, eyebrow, and upper and lower eyelid lower eyelift with Dr. Manuel Chacon in the city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Unfortunately, my results are less than satisfactory. The scars were badly placed during my upper eyelid lift: the scar extends out on the lateral corner of my eye with hooded skin overlapping. I now look at least ten yrs older with freakish eyes. My doctor refuses to do anything about this and denies that this is his fault. I learned a big lesson. Don't ever leave the country.
Chris Thiagarajah, MD 10 Aug 2010
why would you go to costa rica to have a blepharoplasty? Did you check your doctor's credentials?
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