My BBL Journey w/ Dr. Blinski - Miami, FL

I've had a strange start so far.

I originally signed up early February with coordinator Liz for Dr. Osak Omulepu. I paid 300 dollar deposit and paying the 5k on care credit 2 weeks before surgery date. My sx date is locked in for May 4th.

That 5k will get me the normal 12 area lipo w/ BBL and I'm adding both arm lipo ($800) the chin/neck lipo ($400) and 1 syringe of Juvederm for my lips ($660). I get to stay in a recovery house for 5 nights 6 days. 1 garment. 3 lymphatic massages.

Fast forward to TODAY. I was bored at work and decided to google my doctor to read some of his reviews...NEXT THING I READ is an article about how Dr. Osak Omulepu's medical license has been REVOKED!! Apparently he punctured 4 different women's internal organs during their providers over the span of 2 days in early 2015. The Board was calling Dr. O highly incompetent because he is not board certified and that they will be doing further investigations. That document I read was dated Feb 26, 2016. So relatively knew. (It's a low key blessing this happened before my surgery. It scares the [RS bleep] out of me. This is my life and my body we are talking about. )

But what trips me out is that the team at Spectrum knew about his situation before the article so why the HECK didn't anyone call me and tell me I need to rebook with someone else?!?!?!?! Good thing I took it upon myself to email Liz and set up the same date and price I originally planned. Otherwise I'd be [RS bleep] out of luck come surgery date!! But the caveat was that only 2 of Spectrums Doctors matched my original plan of action. Cost and date. Just one issue-

All of the doctors there do great work so I wasn't too worried at all. I asked myself who is this 4th Doc since Dr. Omulepu is so outta there? The website lists Dr. Ortega, Dr. Ghurani, and Dr. Llorente. Dr. Llorente was the other choice I mentioned above but he wasn't available until much later. I took off work so I needed to use the other surgeon. So who the heck is this mystery Doctor you ask? Come to find out his name is Dr. Sergio Alvarez. He isn't listed on the site yet but I imagine is he is helping out with the work load since homeboy got fired.

I googled this man of course. And come to find out he is one of the best plastic surgeons in the Mi Yayo according to many articles. He has his own clinic and is opening another amazing one in Spain as well. Impressive!! The only BAD THING is I can't find many pics of his work. From Twitter, IG, to his website. I am still going to do a lot of homework and ask my coordinator to send me pics of his BBLs. I also tweeted him so we shall see. Although minimal, I have seen beautiful work from him nonetheless.

It's safe to say I'm happy that I'm in great hands but I'm just overall freaked out because of the situation with Dr. Osak and the fact moons from Spectrum contacted me (they aren't great with communication with pre op patients from what I heard of so I'm not surprised). I'm not whiny cry baby though and I know eventually I will have all the info I need and everything with my reconvey house will be fine.

As far as Dr. Alvarez is concerned - I really need him to be aggressive with the lipo and understand the fact I want a lot of butt projection. Dr. Osak was known to give rockin, curvy bodies so ....yea. :(

I'll keep updating and posting body tigress pictures but until my next update I posted a pic of my face. I have a pretty decent body at best and actually a somewhat nice backside so I have a good starting point. I've seen bigger women have work done at Spectrum (and cheap, dangerous clinics you should NOT go to in the DR.) and come out looking like QUEENS with BAWDY baby! So I'm hella excited for my outcome.

Let me know if anyone of y'all ladies have surgery around May 4th, just need a surgery buddy, simply ask questions, know anything about Dr. Sergio Alvarez, got snubbed by Dr. Osak, or if Spectrum failed to contact you to change docs.

I got an email from Liz this morning answering all my annoying questions. LOL God love her.

She confirmed my date with Dr. Alvarez and gave me the contact for the recovery house. I will be staying at Assistance 4 Life. Karla is great and has been accommodating so far since I'm adding two more days to my stay. 150/night. Adding up to 7 nights 8 days. I wanted to make sure a full week passes before I get my buns on a plane back to OKC.

But their website leaves a lot to be desired. I really want to know what I should for sure but and bring with me. I know they provide transportation to/from the airport, clinic, massages, and store runs. Provide 3 meals a day and a snack. 1 garment and Socks. I'm sure they have pads and all that good stuff but honestly IDK. I need to harass Karla some more and have her draw up a list of things I need that they don't provide. I don't want to go on a shopping spree and come to find out they already have there. Instead of a boppy or beach chair I am going to order Dr. Miami special BBL cushion seat. It's like the Rolls Royce of butt seats (google it!). And I can use that at work and in my car for as long as I need to. And it doesn't look like anything but a seat cushion for comfort and posture. None would be the wiser.

Anywho...I've decided to stay in the shared room so I can have someone to talk to and complain with LoL. I didn't invite anyone to come with me anyways.

On another note -- yesterday when I was freaking out about Dr. Osak and the fact that I couldn't get in contact with my coordinator, I sent my pics to two more Doctors for a virtual consultation. Dr. Wilberto Cortes in Houston. Whom is AMAZING. WOW. but his all inclusive price (minus the recovery house and massages) is $10,600. That's pricey. The other is Dr. Salama. You all know his work. BBL with ONLY 3 areas,recovery house (a super nice one that provides everything, btw), massages, and garments is around 9k. I applied for 12k on my Care Credit card so I don't mind paying all the way up to that much. Everything is in my price range but considering it's only 6k (was 5k but I'm adding chin, lips, and arms) and I get a good surgeon does excite me but worries me at the same time. I don't want him to crank it out because I'm not paying that much you know what I mean? I'm going to make it super clear that I want the waist cinched in, projection, and round hips. I will pay as much as I need to get that.

Is Dr. Salama the only person that does BBL's? LoL! I feel like he's the only Doctor whose transformations I see on here. I wonder how many surgeries he does a day. I don't think I would be comfortable with a surgeon that did more than 3 a day.

That's just me though---I was shopping around as I mentioned before and got to talking to Nancy @ Elite and she is amazing and if I went to Salama it would cost me a little over 9k to do everything I wanted and stay at the recovery house.

I am still excited to go to Sergio Alvarez. Definitely lucked out there. Just wish I could see as many photos of his work as I do of Salama. LoL