A Hard Road... Laser, Numbness, scars, skin discoloration

Dear Happy,
First of all I want to appologize for having had you confused with someone else and I'm so sorry for that. I know you must have been like, whaaaaaat?????
So just know I'm sorry and those things were directed at someone else. Bless your heart. My numbness bothers me. My Dr. told me he had never had a patient with nerve damage, because I asked him, and I found out, after I did not heal from the nerve damage, that many of his patients had been unhappy, and nurses that have worked for him have come out against him and yet he is still practicing although no longer with LSL. He has his own "Spa" in Lawerenceburg, TN and I've found others on other blogs, esp. the nurses who worked for him that told the most agregious things about him. I could not find anything wrong about him before my surgery, but after I didn't heal the way he said... I found out he left lsl after promising he would "fix me for free"!!!

Sooooo I think we really can't trust lsl when they say that they search the country for the most cutting edge, knowledgeable, drs training them a year in the "procedure", surgery. It's hard to find things like that out, interviewing your dr. Esp. when they lie to you, and not much about them is on the internet. It was later that I got the right software and was able to get back into State records and found out all kinds of bad things that it turns out lsl was aware of all the way up to his drug abuse.
Sorry to seemingly have attacked you but one can get kinda passionate when you get damaged and find out so many other have as well. And worse!!!!!!
I cry for the ones with the loud horrendous scars that scream "botched plastic surgery". There's just no excuse for it. None whatsoever. I realize travisties occur "no matter what" when you have surgery, but I feel myself and a lot of others were misled into thinking it would not be so extensive, as they totally promote the surgery as a minimally invasive procedure, with fast recovery, with less bruising and scarring than a regular face lift, with no pain or dangerous general anesthesia. Just call me rightiously indignent. Not depressed, or not an idiot, as someone else called me.... Just more jaded which is what it takes to live in this world I guess.
I hope your healing continues to get better over time. I pray to God I don't have to wear this feeling of the numbness up the sides of my face around my eyes, and up into my scalp for the rest of my life. I was left defenseless. So God Bless and take care .

Best Regards,
2trusting

I thought it would be helpful to post again. It has been almost a year since I had my lift. The off color in front of my ears has improved. The results of the laser are pretty much done. It is okay. It was a long hard road. I am glad I did it but I won't do it again. Too much for me emotionally. I do however look much better than I did a year ago!!

Good to hear from you again and I am glad that you had better results than some of us. I hope that you continue to be happy. Best, Chrystal Eckes

I had my surgery done in 2005 and the giant hematoma's

get larger each year. Picture a huge brown stain that run's down the side of my neck and spreads in front of my ears on both sides of my face. This was due to no drains being placed after this surgery and the blood drained into my neck and face leaving these permanent scars. I also had NO post op care. no caretaker--I was told I could go back to work in 3 days.
I have numbing and huge cross hatching scars running around my ears-starting from the back of the ear all the way around to the top.
no amount of make up can conceal them and I would have to wear my hair in front of my face like cousin IT to hide my results.