Morning Musing on Gaslighting and Slick Surgeons
Luvlies, Good morning. I am officially 37 days post-op from this pesky reduction, so I thought I’d share an update on how I’m doing. Not well actually. See, my ‘surgeon’ has really tried to pull the wool over my eyes with this operation. I should have said NO immediately after finding a whole slew of errors in the initial consult summary. They (because it’s unclear which twin brother surgeon was present at the consult vs the surgery vs post-op) basically inferred that I was an obese smoker, who had asymmetry that could not be rectified in the consult summary. Instead of being a woman in great physical condition, who needs her disproportionately large dense breasts reduced due to having a family history of the women dying from breast cancer. They documented things we never discussed, and omitted the things we did.
The twin surgeon(s) never looked at the documentation I prepared that outlined what size and shape I was aiming for prior to surgery either. I told the surgeon I wanted to be as small as I could, while preserving the nipple (small B-C cup). This was a research document, with images of women with similar ‘asymmetry’ and proportions that I had, with the results I wanted (clearly from more talented surgeons). This document had:
- pictures of every angle of my current breasticles – because none were taken any at the initial consult
- the work of other surgeons – annotated and named
- 2 rendered images of the shape options I was open to post-op – I’m pretty good with photoshop and the renderings were realistic
I won’t even discuss the shitty admin team or even pre/post-op treatment. That will go in the formal complaint I’m filing at the end of the month.
That still doesn’t explain why I’m upset. It was because yesterday was the first time I’ve been able to see clearly what type of surgery I had versus the surgery I paid for. I have been feeling pain at the base of my tatas, but couldn’t figure out why. I had a lollipop surgery so the incision stopped before the bra line or so I thought… Yesterday, I checked the steri strips at the base of my knockers and realized I had an anchor scar. There are different types of breast reduction surgery and having an slight anchor procedure was discussed, but under the condition the surgeon would remove more tissue. So if they needed to perform an anchor procedure, it would only happen in order to achieve a smaller breast size.
But they didn’t remove more tissue. They wrote in their official report that they took out a total of approx. 1300g of breast tissue, but the pathology report said they removed just under 850g of tissue. 450g is a very BIG difference. Why you ask? You see, 1300g removal is over the threshold of the 1000g limit a doctor has to remove tissue, without the use of drains. If they go over that threshold, they’re required (by law) to put in drains. This was told to me by the surgeon on the day of surgery. I didn’t have drains, which meant I didn’t have a large amount of breast tissue removed… which is not what I paid for nor what we discussed.
They removed less breast tissue than they claimed, but performed the procedure as if they removed a significant amount of tissue. Catch what I’m putting down? Why do I have an anchor scar if I didn’t have a larger breast reduction? That is the question I expect to have an answer for at my 37 day check-in today.
…and that’s time. Well… a bit over today because I wanted to make sure I made sense. Share your thoughts down below.
See you tomorrow Luvlies!
xoxo Luv Laney Luv
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