May 23, 2011 9:13 am
According to this story on the BBC, botched plastic surgery made a woman’s business fail! She even got £6 million damages for it.
Lucky her!
I can’t help feeling that she was more than a little lucky here, as it is in my view not the most sensible of things to have vanity plastic surgery. Why would anybody chose to go through pain for no proper reason? On the other hand read any tabloid and there are loads of stories where people have suffered pain in the name of pleasure!
I have pain from my stroke and to inflict it for a vanity reason just seems so bizarre.
As the courts have said that the plastic surgeon made a mistake, which he admitted, it seems that there were a both parties weren’t as sensible and thoughtful as they might have been! In all things to do with doctors, you should choose them with care!
One of the reasons, I would never have vanity plastic surgery is that there are so many court cases when it goes wrong. There has even been more than a few deaths, although thankfully most of the latter have been abroad or caused by plastic surgery performed in less-than-safe surroundings or countries.
So yet again, it is rich seam for the lawyers, to trouser a decent wage.
One of C’s legal colleagues once asked me if C had had her bust enhanced, as he thought it looked different. He was very surprised when I said it was exercise and a bra that fitted well. She never let him forget it!
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I do not agree with cosmetic surgery. It is a waste of money, quite apart from anything else, but it concerns me the number of women who choose to have it done, to keep up with their friends, or because they are afraid their husband will go off with someone younger. Neil and I have been married 30 years (today as it happens), I have had no cosmetic surgery, marriage is about far more than youthful looks. I also would not have breast replacement if I had to had mastectomy, because however excellent the surgeon, breast tissue cells still remain, and if they are underneath an implant the chances of any cancer regrowth being found early enough is slender.
But the surgery I disagree with most of all, also done for cosmetic reasons whatever people may claim, is bariatric surgery – so called “weight loss surgery” or WLS. The supposed long term health benefits are a fallacy. People who opt for it are generally those who have tried unsuccessfully all their lives to lose weight and get thin. They, like me, will have tried every diet and every exercise regime at least once. Initial weight loss is followed by a plateau and weight gain even if you stay on the diet and keep up the regime. This is because the diet (more so than the exercise) have altered your metabolism, making it even slower. The result over a period of years is gradual weight increase. The people who claim that it has “cured” their diabetes are in fact eating so little and getting a lot of their nutrients from very high protein shakes and vitamin and mineral supplements that they arent ever getting the diabetes a chance to kick in! Yes, people lose a lot of weight very quickly because all they can eat is a tablespoonful of liquidised mush every few hours. Forever. Losing so much weight so quickly causes most people to need an operation to remove the excess skin left by the weight loss. A significant % get internal infection and gangrene as a result of this, and die. Those who survive the surgery suffer clinical malnutrition most of the time. Weight gain starts after a very few years. various studies show that the lifespan is actually longer if you dont have the surgery! Quality of life is also better. Having become fat myself as a result of “yo-yo dieting” despite very regular exercise, I chose to stop dieting about 9 or 10 year ago. I eat a healthy diet, exercise as much as I can within limits of disablilty. My weight is now completely stable. So is my diabetic control. My BP is typically 110/75.
By liz on May 23, 2011 at 2:49 pm
I think the discussion is a bit wider.
I’ve met several people with bad birth marks. All seemed to be totally against any cosmetic surgery to remove the marks. Strangely, One was a television presenter, who told me she’d get fired, if she showed her facial birth mark on air, so she always covered it with makeup. She got married au naturelle.
I have a bad left arm caused by a bully at school who broke it. I suffered years of pain and one of my business colleagues actually thought it was caused by polio. But then a fitness trainer got hold of it and gave me a set of exercises to alleviate the problem. It worked, but then the stroke gave me all the problems back. I’ve now got a new physio in London, who is working on it again and he has some fiendish machines that seem to be helping to make it better. So, Liz, you might just find that some of the new exercise methods may well benefit you in surprising ways. But I think it is true to say, you pay for what you get. I go privately, as when I came out of hospital the NHS abandoned me, as they do stroke victims in a lot of cases.
By AnonW on May 23, 2011 at 3:06 pm
I used to manage the admin part of a Red Cross Skin Cam service, apparently there are quite few famous people whose use skin cam to hide birthmarks and port wine stains.
I too see a private physio, and she does introduce new things from time to time, and I also research stuff myself. So yes, things could improve regarding treatment of pain levels and suitable exercises to help. As for being fat, I have no plans to try and change that, although a drug I will probably be given eventually for my diabetes has the side effect in some people of causing an alteration in metabolism causing weight loss. But being fat isnt an issue to me anymore
By liz on May 23, 2011 at 3:22 pm
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