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Nightmare
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Nightmare
carmin_vcJune 26, 2021
First of all forgive me for the image you will see, but is important so you understand better what she did to me,
It took me years to be able to tell my story. My experience with Dr Chen was more than “traumatizing” and I’m still working in my recover.
I wish I could give a “zero” because she doesn’t deserves not even 1 star.
So in 2016 after founding out that I was BRAC1 gen carrier (which meant that I had a really high risk to developing breast cancer).
I was devastated with the news, I just moved to Utah and after speaking with different doctors I decided that I wanted my Breast to be removed and go through reconstruction.
I found Dr. Chen, went to my consultation and all the plan sounded good. My surgery was going to be in two faces: 1st a breast surgeon would remove all my breast tissue and prepare my breast so 2nd Dr Chen could insert an expander that after two weeks of my surgery, Dr Chen would start injecting a saline solution little by little (every two weeks) so my skin recovered from the tissue removal trauma and I could go in a second surgery to replace the expander with an implant.
The day of the surgery was the most scary and devastated day of my whole life.
When I woke after the surgery, I was prepared with the idea of not having volume in my breast but the expander inserted.
I was horrified, Dr Chen inserted the expander and fill it up to the max and my skin was totally distress and hurt from so much CC,s. (which was totally the opposite of the plan). My breast was almost in my throat.
The same night my breast started to get purple and I was sooooo scared that asked every single personal of the hospital to call Dr. Chen. My skin was dying due to among of pressure on my breast.
Dr. Chen never came to see me at the hospital and just told the nurses to use a cream on the purple zone.
My bottom right breast die.
She didn’t care and I was able to see her after 2 weeks when there was nothing else to do to safe that part of my breast.
Dr Chen is a joke, she wanted to get skin from my back and put a flap (a patch) in the site where I got necrosis.
Obviously I didn’t trust her anymore so desperately I beg a lot of other doctors to help me and nobody wanted to do nothing for me.
However I found an excellent and kind plastic surgeon (my Angel) that was able to help me. He told me that he may needed to remove my nipple too due to the necrosis but thank God he did all to safe my nipple and did a great job to make my breast look better.
That wasn’t the end of my journey, I have had 6 surgeries since then to try to fix as much as possible what she did to me.
After all this story, I hope that you think more than twice before seeing her. There are so many doctors that you can go to, like my Angel.
I will gladly give you his contact information just DM me.
Thank you and God blessed you!
It took me years to be able to tell my story. My experience with Dr Chen was more than “traumatizing” and I’m still working in my recover.
I wish I could give a “zero” because she doesn’t deserves not even 1 star.
So in 2016 after founding out that I was BRAC1 gen carrier (which meant that I had a really high risk to developing breast cancer).
I was devastated with the news, I just moved to Utah and after speaking with different doctors I decided that I wanted my Breast to be removed and go through reconstruction.
I found Dr. Chen, went to my consultation and all the plan sounded good. My surgery was going to be in two faces: 1st a breast surgeon would remove all my breast tissue and prepare my breast so 2nd Dr Chen could insert an expander that after two weeks of my surgery, Dr Chen would start injecting a saline solution little by little (every two weeks) so my skin recovered from the tissue removal trauma and I could go in a second surgery to replace the expander with an implant.
The day of the surgery was the most scary and devastated day of my whole life.
When I woke after the surgery, I was prepared with the idea of not having volume in my breast but the expander inserted.
I was horrified, Dr Chen inserted the expander and fill it up to the max and my skin was totally distress and hurt from so much CC,s. (which was totally the opposite of the plan). My breast was almost in my throat.
The same night my breast started to get purple and I was sooooo scared that asked every single personal of the hospital to call Dr. Chen. My skin was dying due to among of pressure on my breast.
Dr. Chen never came to see me at the hospital and just told the nurses to use a cream on the purple zone.
My bottom right breast die.
She didn’t care and I was able to see her after 2 weeks when there was nothing else to do to safe that part of my breast.
Dr Chen is a joke, she wanted to get skin from my back and put a flap (a patch) in the site where I got necrosis.
Obviously I didn’t trust her anymore so desperately I beg a lot of other doctors to help me and nobody wanted to do nothing for me.
However I found an excellent and kind plastic surgeon (my Angel) that was able to help me. He told me that he may needed to remove my nipple too due to the necrosis but thank God he did all to safe my nipple and did a great job to make my breast look better.
That wasn’t the end of my journey, I have had 6 surgeries since then to try to fix as much as possible what she did to me.
After all this story, I hope that you think more than twice before seeing her. There are so many doctors that you can go to, like my Angel.
I will gladly give you his contact information just DM me.
Thank you and God blessed you!
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