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Following the wonderful abdominoplasty/liposuction, and then face/brow/eyelid/lift, chin implant, lip filling, neck lipo....
I haven't been able to post because I won a wonderful job as a clinic director of a small PT clinic 30 min drive from my home. It's been incredibly challenging because of so many unexpected blocks: I had a terrible head cold for the first two weeks, my office mgr got it too and that made 3 weeks with one or both of us ill. Meantime, the sister clinic (10 min from my home) had its clinical director QUIT just 1 week after I started. Also, the office manager there took 6 weeks off for major surgery. Then my office mgr became very ill and deeply depressed, and found me an ideal target for her grief and depression. The other office mgr came back from her operation and quit without notice at the end of those 8 hours! So, after 7 weeks of eating breakfast in the car en route to work, carrying my lunch AND my dinner, abandoning my husband literally six days a week (I had to work at least one day each weekend, still struggling to catch up from all the weeks without an office mgr, without ANYONE at hand to ask a question of, I was brought to a quiet room last evening at 4 pm and my position was terminated! The office mgr had it in for me and basically her opinion was what made the decision for the vice president who was never there (he lives and works two hours from our clinic.) I think my biggest problem is a combination of OCD (lifelong, but very manageable and genuinely desirable in a health care worker, and with almost any employee who has enormous professional responsibilities) and having survived a ruptured brain aneurysm with craniotomy and clipping 7 years ago. I have had testing to prove my intelligence is intact and that I still function with capabilities greater than more than 90% of people. But, in today's healthcare system, EVERYTHING is money...and I do mean everything. Therefore, the fact that my OCD makes me take too long to complete my work, and I work 2 to 5 hours overtime (for free, and with no complaints) makes me totally non-hire-able. I do not intend to apply for another position, though I had intended practicing PT for another 10 yrs if my health had continued. Obviously, it has not: 7 1/2 yrs ago I had an unknown aneurysm in my brain rupture with a loud pop and excruciating pain. Because I could still talk, my colleagues refused to call 911 though I begged them to (they were all nurse-educators, surprisingly). Finally one nurse who was my friend got my handbag and car keys and drove me to the hospital across the street from the college where I was working as an instructor for PT Assistant students in a newly opened program. I could not walk or sit upright, my friend pushed me into the ER in a tipped back wheelchair. The (resident) ER doc laughed at me and said I had "a migraine" (I don't get migraines; and she sent me home with headache of 7/10 despite 2 Percocet. It was 3 days before the weekend was over and I called the neurologists with whom I had worked for 15 yrs, and one listened to me, and I had the life-saving surgery with his former attending surgeon, who was chief of neurosurgery at the state's best medical center. Somehow I thought I was okay, but I now realize that I am NOT okay, I cannot stay focused, I misspell words (I never used to make spelling errors) and worst of all, I am obsessive-compulsive and cannot finish my work in good time due to correcting and over-correcting. this just at the time when Medicare demands more perfection in documentation than ever. So, looking young and so, so much better than I have in over a decade, I am still crippled by the brain aneurysm. Nonetheless, most people (very frequently occurs when people are in their late 50s, as I was) die in the first month post aneurysm rupture, and another 35-40% are devastatingly disabled living in nursing facilities. I was able to return to work in just 3 weeks, and have been working full time as a PT for the past 7 years (except for the few months off to have the face and abdominal surgeries.) It appears my career is over, but were it not for the surgeries I would be in complete despair. I cannot thank Dr Huntly and the team at Coastal Empire in Savannah enough for all the wonderful care provided. And Dr Huntly is an artist, and beyond that (as if it were not enough!) he is also a deeply caring professional. If you have doubts, please read my lengthy review. I'm sorry not to have photos..I am hoping at my next (and final) visit to his office he will give me the photos taken throughout my two recoveries, which I will share to help those of you who need to see the changes possible! Thanks to all of you who showed you cared throughout the few months of stress and progression.
The whole 9 yards: TT/Lipo, FL, brow, neck, chin lift, U/L eye lids, fat transfers changed my life.
8.5 weeks post
Provider Review
I have been asked to add more to my review -- I don't know how I can say MORE about my outstanding experience with Dr Michael Huntly at COASTAL EMPIRE PLASTIC SURGERY. He has a team dedicated to him and his patients. Dr Huntly will call me personally if anything made me uncomfortable. He is highly professional, and a gifted surgeon. His ability to visualize how someone's body should or could look is quite astounding. I'm sooooo happy after only 4 weeks so it can only get better than this. I am thrilled to wear shorts again. Thrilled to look fit with a curvy figure that my husband is so delighted with, although he had in no way found problems with my appearance before. I did this for ME. It was worth every penny. The entire team is so dedicated and I believe it is through Dr. Huntly's deep dedication to his patients and the achievement of the very best outcomes. We are THRILLED!!! Actually looking forward with excitement to the next phase of my makeover: correction of some aging changes in my face and eyes, and most importantly for me: trying to improve my profile which has always upset me with a set-back chin and seeming lack of distance from chin to neck. Dr Huntly feels he can make the necessary changes and I would trust him for any aspect of my care, especially knowing his team is 100% with him!