Breast Reduction Gone Way Wrong

I've waited a long time to write this review and I'm sorry to anyone who has been botched since 2017. In 2017 I had a breast reduction with liposuction and a lift. I paid $13,500. I think.

There were complications after, and a blister on my right breast started oozing shortly after the procedure where the incision and glue were. I stayed in contact with Dawn Rappazzo who told me to put bacitracin on it and cover it. I put a small bandaid over it, until I could go into their office. This turned into a nightmare as the band-aid did not help, and the opening of the incision was like an avalanche under the weight of my breast. The vertical incision opened fully and the skin on either side of the incision just kept getting wider, split in a triangle over the bottom half of my breast. This happened probably over the span of four or five days. I knew it looked like a horror movie but over the next few weeks it got to the point where I didn't care at all what it looked it. I was just afraid it would never heal.

This however is a surgery complication, and NOT why I am writing the review. I'm writing because the way Dr. Jamie Schwartz treated me through the process was terrible. Could he have helped more for that not to happen? I'm not sure. I was terrified and every time I came in, he just had me sign another waiver to make sure I couldn't sue him. I signed them, no problem. The wound was triangle sized, raw and bleeding. He told me that I personally needed to 'debride' the wound with a toothbrush (not kidding) and dress it. I could not even let water touch it because it was so painful and he repeatedly told me to 'debride' it with a toothbrush. I asked him to prescribe me numbing cream for that debriding process and he did not give me any... I had to go to another regular doctor, body falling apart under my clothes to ask for numbing cream - which the other doctor did give me. My bathroom looked like a CVS for about three months. My mom is a nurse and said that he never should have told me to debride my own wound being that it was so extreme. He should have numbed it and helped me, or had a nurse do it. His 'bedside manner' or whatever that was, was terrible. I grew from the experience, but it took a lot of maturity, laying awake for months asking my body to heal because it seemed like it never would. He was very clearly, only worried about himself and his practice.

This was a month or two into the healing process once it actually started to make some progress. At first it was just red, bloody and super raw like a peeled grape and that is what he wanted me to scrub with a toothbrush.