- [ ] June 21, 2023 breast lift with Dr. Tracy Baker.
- [ ] I paid extra to spend the night at his facility nevertheless, he never came to see me. They just discharged me after waiting for him for hours.- [ ] June 23, 2023 I called Dr. Tracy Baker’s office and asked to be seen because my nipples and areolas were turning purple. The nurse Noelia told me that I would have to wait until my week postop appointment that it was normal for them to turn purple. (I called and emailed for a few days asking begging to be seen and she told me I would have to wait).- [ ] June 29, 2023 at my follow up appointment with Dr. Tracy Baker. He informed me that I had necrosis and that I would need to have Leach treatment. - [ ] June 30, 2023 I was leeched (5 long leaches on each breast) for about 3 1/2 hours at Dr. Tracy Baker’s office. I asked him how would I know if it the treatment would work and he said if the leeches bite it will work.- [ ] July 1, 2023 I received my second leaching treatment which also took about 3 1/2 hours. My ride was running 15 minutes late and the nurse asked me to wait outside of the building because the building would close at two and I would be locked inside the building in the lobby. I fainted due to the loss of blood ???? due to two consecutive over three hour sessions of leeching. I suffered the most horrible fall I’ve ever had. - [ ] Finally, on July 3, 2023 I received my third and final leaching treatment. - [ ] I noticed my breast were getting worse instead of better I emailed and called and reported it to the nurse. She said it was normal.- [ ] When I ask Dr. Baker to remove the implants and start to debridement he said that it would mess up all the pocket work he did. So he waited.- [ ] Finally, July 17, 2023 I had my first debridement. I had a debridement every day that week, except for Thursday.- [ ] Friday, July 21, 2023 after the debridement procedure I was told that on Monday, July 24, 2023 they would do an additional debridement, removing my nipples as well. - [ ] July 24, 2023 I had to sign the consent for debridement of my nipples with Dr. Baker’s coordinator Elizabeth Betancourt. She stated that the reason this happen to you is because of all those breast surgeries. No empathy whatsoever. She was under the impression that I had many breast surgery with other doctors because she could only find my records from 2016. - [ ] July 24, 2023 Dr. Baker before removing my nipples told me that he had spoken to his buddy Dr. Louis P. Bucky, from Harvard medical school. Dr. Bucky and told him to take off those nipples and he would fly in and have dinner with him and create me the best most beautiful nipples I’ve ever seen. He then told me that he spoke to the board that governs plastic surgeons regarding this issue and reported that what messed up this Procedure was the technique that the surgeon used in 1998 and 1999 for breast augmentation. And that he does not do that technique. I reminded him in front of his OR nurse Stephanie that it was him that did those two procedures for me. He asked Dr. Ramirez the anesthesiologist to pull up his records on the computer in the operating room to confirm. Dr. Ramirez the anesthesiologist confirmed that Dr. Tracy Baker performed my procedures in 1998 and 1999 (I have audio of the entire conversation as well as audio from other sessions of wound healing). I suffered bilateral nipple areola complex necrosis with deep wounds. About 3 inches deep and 3 inches in width or more. Now that I do not have to have my wounds cared for a need a reconstruction, and Dr. Baker said that he cannot provide. Post op care for me. He is not qualified for this type of reconstruction.- [ ] I will never have Ariola’s again. They will be tattooed on. I am receiving psychotherapy every Wednesday at lunchtime.
Updated on 24 Nov 2023:
I am currently seeking a reconstruction facility. I may have to have a DIEP Flap reconstructive procedure which is done using tissue from your lower abdominal. I received a quote from a reconstruction center and Louisiana for $80,000 not including travel and accommodations.
Updated on 24 Nov 2023:
I called the nurse Noelia and she told me I had to wait until my week follow up. She said it was normal for them to turn purple. I was in excruciating pain. After, I lost my breast she said “you are getting a revision”.
Updated on 4 Dec 2023:
He is supposed to refund me if he can’t fix what he messed up. I have no nipples, areolas, and my mental health! I have the right to create a go fund me account for my reconstruction. Since, he refuses to pay for my bilateral breast reconstruction.
Updated on 7 Dec 2023:
Letter from the Florida Department of Health. The investigator just contacted me today. He will need to have an interview with me in order to proceed with the investigation. I hope they can help me and others.
Most of all, Florida should not allow surgeons to operate without malpractice insurance.
Updated on 12 Dec 2023:
I have an appointment at Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Hospital. There are two more affordable options but I would have to travel - PRMA Plastic Surgery in San Antonio, TX with Dr. Gassman and Center for Restorative Breast Surgery, LLC in New Orleans, LA with Dr. Scott Sullivan. If anyone can recommend a good reconstructive facility I would appreciate it.
Updated on 19 Dec 2023:
I need my $17,000 back in order to put it towards my reconstruction. He insists that I sign a non disclosure which would include deleting my reviews so no women will have adequate warning. Although I have filed a complaint with the Florida Department of Health it seems as if they don’t discipline surgeons at all because I was told they need authorization from Dr. Tracy Baker’s attorney Mr. Ramon Abadin in order to interview him. So, I do not count.
Updated on 20 Dec 2023:
What are the complications of leech
therapy?
Complications were divided into five categories including infection, allergy, prolonged bleeding, migration, and others. Infection is the most-reported complication related to leech therapy and Aeromonas spp. has the most participation in infections.
In my case the nurse removed several leeches with alcohol with makes the leeches release bacteria.
Updated on 24 Dec 2023:
I must agree that anyone can get necrosis having a breast lift. My question is how many responsible doctors/surgeons will wait over three weeks to start debridement? In my recovery I have been to my gynecologist, and many other professionals for example, Miami Breast Institute where I do my cancer screening, and they have advised me that the fact that he waited is MALPRACTICE! When I asked him to, please take out the implant and start to bent a few days after the leaching therapy he said that all his work would be wasted. As a result, I suffered deeply what I could never put in words. please see attached pictures.
Updated on 26 Dec 2023:
Dr. Tracy Baker was too busy in the operating room when it was time to discharge me and provide my 24 hour follow up. Instead, I was just discharged by nurse Noelia. Please note that when I woke up in my room after my surgery the nurse that was supposed to take care of me was too busy talking on her cell phone to help me. I had to climb out of the bed because i didn’t know how to lower the side rail. I fended for myself after my procedure. Nevertheless when the nurse shift changed, I was very well taken care of by nurse Lucy. She noticed me going to the bathroom by myself and asked me what are you doing. Then, she explained that I’m not supposed to do anything right after surgery and that was what she was there for. - never wait if you are told that purple nipples are normal. Show up regardless and demand to be seen not that in my case that would have helped. At my weekly follow up appointment I was just scheduled for leeching therapy. Having no drains and no pedicle planning for procedure due to record issues - I HAD NO CHANCE!
Updated on 31 Dec 2023:
It is New Year Eve 2024 and I’m traumatized from the most horrific experience I have ever endured. I believe this could all have been avoided if Dr. Tracy Baker/Baker Plastic Surgery would take less patience at a time. They are extremely understaffed, and that is one of the primary reasons I am home botched suffering on New Year’s Eve. Baker Plastic Surgery and Dr. Tracy Baker are just like getting caught up in hostile territory where anything goes.
Updated on 4 Jan 2024:
Throughout the leeching therapy the nurse if she could take photos of my breast with the black long leeches sucking my blood ????. I had five on each breast. Not knowing that this leech therapy was only delaying my only chance to save my breast at that time (which would require immediately removing the implants and start debridement), I agreed. I have requested those photos several times and been rejected. The surgeon will use them and most likely profit from them as well. So, never let yourself in this situation consent to photos. I was a project. That is how he would address me “my little project”.
Updated on 7 Jan 2024:
The most surprising and sad part of this experience is that everyone will treat you as if you are botched (damaged), not normal strangers at health care facilities to your on family. If you have a partner that will be the one who will make you feel the worst. Do your homework when before you have a cosmetic procedure. As soon as I had the energy to, I went to buy makeup and I’m learning how to use it with practice.
Updated on 14 Feb 2024:
I need a year and a half and four procedures before I can have my breast reconstructed with tissue flap nipples and tattooed areolas. I must work hard to stay positively focused. And make it through the process.
Updated on 14 Feb 2024:
My results for reconstruction evaluated by Miami Cancer Institute part of Baptist health states I need to remove basically all the tissue in both breast and put in expanders for six months. then my second surgery they will remove my tissue expanders and put in implants and revise my scars and deformities.
Updated on 14 Feb 2024:
After Having tissue expanders for six months my second procedure would involve more revision and placement of implants. Then, three months after I can have created nipples. Several months after the nipples are created. I can have Areolas tattooed and hopefully by next summer I should be done
Updated on 28 Apr 2024:
After finding out that the individual that made all the decisions on my breast/mental health/life/financial situation was not certified in any way by the Florida Department of Health, I filed a complaint only to find out that there’s a loophole. She’ s Considered a medical assistant, and therefore is not regulated by the Department of health. Meaning she can not be regulated. Perhaps there should be a lot that plastic surgeons If you will be in the hands of an unlicensed CERT and unregulated person.