patty01

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• Posted to Sounded Like Great Way to Get Rid of Turkey Neck and Lines Around my Mouth but Don't Do It! - Troy, MI on 6 Jan 2011

  My sister had the lifestyle lift in September 2010. She had the everything except her eyes done as well as a laser procedure done on her face. The surgery took about 4 hours and she was still very much out of it when it seemed like they were rushing her out of there because it was closing time. My sister paid cash up front, about $8000. She actually came down from California so she could be with me and thank goodness she did because there would have been no way that she could have gotten out of there to the hotel by herself. Anyway, we did have a checkup the next morning and she was swollen and very distorted something awful. The nurses cleaned and changed her bandage and sent us on our way. My sister developed a hematoma behind one ear. We called the doctor and they said the swelling was normal and that continue with the ice packs and it would go down. Be the end of the week when we went for the final checkup the nurses were shocked that it looked the way it did and told us "common sense" should have told us to return to the clinic. We were just going by what the doctor on the phone said. Anyway, they had to reopen the drain hole behind the ear and squeeze that mess out of there. She had to fly back to California that day, also they could not remove her stitches either. She went to the doctor several more times at the Lifestyle in Ontario, California and never received not one phone call for followup from her doctor that performed the surgery. She also went through 3 bottles of pain pills.
  My point is, is that the commercials on TV are very deceiving and they certainly take your money with a smile but that seems to be the end of it. Once you have your surgery, that will be the end of your communication with them. If they had have told us that these things could happen, then we might have prepared a bit but I think that you are so excited about thinking about the outcome that you don't realize all the things that could go wrong. I believe that they need to extremely revise their commercials because this is not an easy procedure to go through. My sister said she would never, ever do it again.