This was a perfect fit - Dr. Maclennan is worth the distance you might travel

Let me start out by saying that the ten-thousand dollar price tag I placed on my surgery includes the cost of my hotel room and the cost of the CNAs that took care of me and might not be what other patients have payed.

Just so I don't sound like an advertisement I'll start out saying that the
privacy issues in this office need to be improved.
What one surgeon did was to have me sign a contract on printed paper instead of electonically. There was a specific question which let patients decide if they wanted to have their photos shared for educational and advertising purposes. I answered NO. I would suggest that Dr. Maclennan's office do the same.
Instead, they had me sign the pre-surgical agreement electronically and the request to share my breast pictures with people outside the office who are not involved in my care was lumped in with a number of other questions.
I asked them if I could have my photos not be shared with the public and they told me they would not share them, but this was only a verbal agreement.
As most people know, a verbal agreement is not legally binding and because some surgeons work with high risk populations who are more likely to file a lawsuit, the patient privacy issue needs to be treated separately from permission to perform surgery. If you check this out on Google, a lot of patients have taken huge offense when they find that their surgery videos and photos of them undressed were shared on public media as is described in this link.
https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/when-posting-about-patients-social-media-unethical-medutainment/2018-04

I also have to say that her office is extremely hot. They give patients a heavy, thick gown to wear and I really think they should offer a lighter gown if they want to keep their office so warm or give patients a choice between a heavy gown or a lightweight gown.

A lesser concern is that when the thin tape she used to cover my stitches after surgery started to fall off, I replaced it with more thin tape supplied by her during follow-up Later I found some strong and thick tape in the drug store that made me feel more secure and held me better while I heeled.

WITH THAT SAID, the rest of my experience with them was nearly perfect.

On the day of surgery, I was afraid of complications but none ever happened.

Unlike some other surgeons, she said I could shower the day after surgery and used absorbable stitches even though some surgeons say they use staples.
The procedure took about two hours even though some surgeons claim to take four.

Although some surgeons were adamant that I not use a CNA after surgery, Dr. Maclennan did not object to this and took a huge interest in how the agency aides did with my post-surgical care.

For one thing, using the agency meant that I did not have to involve my family members in my treatment or even tell them I was scheduled for surgery. This was good since I have resented all the stereotyping of patients with the assumption that they ALL have a dedicated family member or friend who has time to stay with them. As is often the case with older people, my friends are all in poor health and my family members are all very busy and I didn't want to bother them! In times past, this had the risk of disqualifying me as a candidate for surgery.

While some surgeons I consulted with were not even affiliated with a hotel, Dr. Maclennan was affiliated with the Residence Inn Marriot which is only a five-minute drive from the surgery center and only a five-minute drive from her office. As if this wasn't enough, the hotel shuttle actually drove me to the surgery appointment.

While some practitioners have a way that they dig their fingers into your breasts and make it seem like you're being exploited by a five-year-old, Dr. Maclennan never did this and instead knows how to work with patients in a dignified manner.

She said she could probably take me down to a C-cup but in the end, she took me down to a B-cup.

The happiest moment of my surgery was when I took off my clothes the next day and saw the compression bra they put on me when I was still under anesthesia. It looked like something that might have fit me as a twelve-year-old. When I took it off for hand-washing, I noticed the size was listed as small.

As a result of this, I have never been so fascinated with bras since I was ten years old.
While in years past, I only had two or three bras, I now have a collection of them.
Because I can now wear revealing shirts without looking rediculous, I like to be colar coordiated and I have a blue bra for my blue shirts and a grey bra for my grey shirts and a black bra for my black shirts.

I also was happy to find new support bras that really do work for me unlike the old ones that never really helped me at all.

While at least one surgeon responded to my complaints by saying that "It might be just they way your breast tissue is," I found that after surgery that all the heavy and creepy feelings were gone out of my breasts.
It sounds silly to suggest that breast reduction could get rid of post-traumatic stress disorder, but this was part of what happened with me.

One surgeon told me about post-surgical itch and made it sound as if I could fully expect this. As a result, I studied post-surgical itch and bought medications that were considered safe to combine to treat it.

This was only to find out that I woke up I didn't itch and as I heeled, I still didn't itch. The OTC meds I had for post-surgical itch are still sitting around waiting to be used for other purposes.

I also expected to wake up in severe pain and instead found that the pain was minimal and I did not need the narcotic meds she prescribed for me. I had also read stories on here about girls who threw up and were dizzy after surgery, but I found that I was not nauseous at all and within an hour after surgery, could walk by myself.

I used ice packs instead of narcotics. I'm adamant about buying POP-ICE in preference over heavier and thicker ice packs because you can fit them over the contours of you breasts. I also used wet, frozen wash clothes to handle pain. I also took Tylenol.

While some surgeons ask that you not drive for at least a week after surgery, this office left it up to my own discretion. I think part of why I was safe driving the next day was that I never used the prescribed narcotics.

My weeks of healing were some of the happiest weeks of the my year even though I followed post-surgical directions and did not swim.

At my six-month-follow-up appointment, I asked Dr. Maclennan about liposuction for my hips and legs. She was completely honest about it and did not try to make it sound better than it really is. She admitted to the complications that can occur and that the amount of tissue she could take out would be less than what most people hope for.

What tops it all off, is that the post surgical compression bras they want patients to use are for sale in their office.

I really did not look forward to bra-shopping since one saleslady had already mislead me by taking out some whorish looking bra and expected me to buy it and also because even now with all my hours of browsing in the bra departments, I still can't find a compression bra as good as what they sell in their office.

I will also alert you that since you can't lift up your arms after surgery, you can put these bras on over your feet. Just be careful that your feet, which are usually contaminated by being on the floor, do not touch the bra which is going on over healing stitches.

With all the millions of breast pictures on here, I won't post any. I do have my own before and after pictures but have only kept the ones in which I'm fully clothed since I do not trust any of my computers to be safe from spy-ware.

Dr. Maclennan is worth the distance you might travel if you can't find a surgeon you like.