I’m Just Happy to Be Alive! But This Doctor Would Not Know or Care if I Was.

Just some updated pictures of why you should choose a different doctor…… pictures of my hospital bill and what my butt looks like in clothing. I have a large dent in my left butt cheek and no fat in the bottom of it leaving it with a large flat spot. His staff is finally responding, even reaching out but no real attempt to remedy the situation. Ladies this procedure is not worth it with this doctor. Join his groups on Facebook and Instagram and you will see that I’m not the only one. Do real research for yourself. Don’t be fooled by his previous work or previous standard of care.

After everything this is what I’m left with….. a butt cheek that has a large dent in the back of it. A nice little deformity that i did NOT have before. And yes, it’s visible in clothing.
Since I forgot to post this picture and this update requires 200 words, let me tell you about him and his staff…..
You will go in for your pre-op appointment the day before and wait. I think I waited 3 hours or more just in the waiting room. You’ll see the doctor for 5 minutes. Then right before surgery for 2 minutes to get marked up. While waiting for pre-op i saw multiple girls in bad pain, clothes with blood, and drains hanging from surgery the day before standing, waiting to be seen for over an hour as well. There is no area for post-op girls to get comfortable while waiting to be seen…. Which would be fine if they didn’t make them wait so long.
The nurses are pleasant before your surgery, they are very rude after. Multiple times when i went back for a follow-up to drain the fluid pocket that kept accumulating on my back i would be able to hear them talking about me. They nicknamed me the “hospital girl”, at least that’s what they called me behind my back. When they would come in they would be rough and rude. And constantly speak in Spanish so you can’t understand what they are saying. You are treated like a number here, and it’s all about the number of people he can get in and out. Don’t put your life in this doctors hands. It’s not worth the risk.

I spent a week in the hospital and was taken by ambulance after just 2 to 3 hours after being released from surgery. I could hardly move half of my body, Half of my face was dropping, I was in excruciating pain, and I had very little blood volume left. I was admitted immediately and started on blood. I also receive several CAT scans and MRIs as the doctors believe I had a stroke. A small mass was found in my brain and then it disappeared a couple hours after and the test came back inconclusive. The doctors told me they believe that I had a fat embolism go through my brain, as fat dissolves, and that I’m very lucky it was not my heart, as that would’ve killed me. After several days in the hospital not recovering, my kidney and liver function started to shut down. The doctors had to start over and work quickly to figure out what was wrong with me. I had rhabdomylosis, which is where your muscles break down and die within your body from extreme muscle trauma. These pieces of muscle were blocking up the blood flow to my organs and slowly killing them. On top of this I was bleeding internally and still had to receive blood transfusions on night six in the hospital. Dr. Mendieta did not check on me one time when I was in the hospital, not by phone or in person. I also never saw him one time at a follow up appointment. When they released me from the hospital I was in such bad shape still that they required around the clock home health care. Yet this man couldn’t take one minute to check on the nightmare he created. And the office refuses to give my medical records even though i have Requested them in writing and in person multiple times.