27 Year Old with Two Children

I had surgery on March 8th I was so excited about this since I’ve beem dreaming of having this procedure for 5 years now. I’m getting married in October to my fiancé and father of my two children so I figured this was the perfect time before our wedding. Well..... this is has been such a bad experience. I woke up from surgery with second and third degree burns on my stomach. I didn’t realize until about day 4 because I had such bad bruising that my charred skin blended in with the bruising. I called the office and was told to send a picture that is when they told me that it was only bruising and they would see me on the following Tuesday. My post-op appointment was 10 days later because we had a snow storm and he is only office on tuesdays so I had to wait to the following Tuesday. On Monday I called the office explaining that it was NOT a bruise and my skin was coming off and I had blistering in some area as well. Once again they asked me to send a picture and I was emailed back that they will be sending burn cream over to my pharmacy and they would see me the next day. It is now Tuesday and my fiancé and I go to my pre op appointment where I saw dr. Del Vecchio for approximately 6 mins he looked at my stomach and said that I had second and third degree burns but it’s no big deal because in the picture he thought it was necrosis and he was happy to see that it’s ONLY second/third degree burns. He also never looked at my stiches or the staples in my butt to see if everything was healing properly. Dr. Delvecchio told me that my burns were from my compression garment being to tight and that is was pretty much my fault. He then took a huge Tegaderm and placed it on my burns and told me to take it off when I got home and to put more burn cream on. When my fiancé and I got home we followed his direction and took it off which was extremely painful since they are not suppose to be used on burns since it is a huge sticky bandage that ripped all of my burns open. He told me I didn’t need to do any special care or go to a specialist but I decided to go to my primary care instead. My primary care is horrified and can’t believe what has happened to me she is actually outraged at what he has done to my body. I am now going to wound care for special treatment for my burns. I will most likely be permanently scarred on my stomach and after paying 10500 to be happy about my body for my honeymoon and wedding I will now be disformed. I’m so frustrated and sick of being in pain. I guess I’m here to just warn others because after researching burns by dr. Delvecchio after the fact i now have found another patient that this has happened too. I have attached some pictures of my burns. I will say that my body does look great from the surgery obviously I’m super swollen at two weeks post op but everything else looks great.

Day 16 after my surgery with updated picture of my second degree burns

My body looks great after surgery but I don’t think it was worth it after the burns that will leave me permanently scarred.