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The accommodation was tiny, four sharing a bathroom and toilet, the food was awful, and the weather was freezing in June. Outside the clinic smelt of urine, and the Clinic waiting room looked like a battle ground with locals in varying stages of post-operative recovery. I began to feel extremely frightened and serioulsy considered cancelling, but having paid upfront! they already had my money "what could I do?"
Although I had chosen to have a local anesthetic with very deep sedation, typically you are deeply asleep and should neither be aware of, or feel anything, I was so worried and nervous I thought if I had a general anesthetic at least I will be completely out of it. So I asked if I could change my mind and have a general anesthetic. Well you would have thought I'd asked for the impossible as instead of kind words of reassurance, I got a complete barrage of insults as the agent / coordinator told me I would be "upsetting the time table" She made me feel so bad and uncomfortable, for a quiet life I went ahead and had the local injections, my worst fears were becoming reality!
I had often read of patients who felt everything whilst having cosmetic and other surgical procedures, but having experience of anesthetics, believed this to be completely impossible. The truth is I felt everything That is all the local injections into my face and around my ears, and worst still I couldn’t move or speak to tell anyone. I was in complete agony until the anesthetic took effect, which seemed an eternity. After the surgery, I was asked to stand up and walk to a side room unaided, no wheel chair- I almost collapsed. I was in shock but was left alone for what seemed ages laying flat on my back,in the dark, shivering, in pain and really not knowing what was going to happen next. The agent / coordinator came to collect me and without any assistance from her, I dressed and walked outside to the waiting car. I was ill for days and became very depressed, no wonder!!
The so called "co-ordinator" was an ex-client of the surgeon, and really only acted as an agent She had no nursing or medical knowledge at all, and became totally disinterested in us ( four altogether) after we'd had our surgeries. She was just interested in the next shipment!
I have very wide scars from my face lift, (rail road tracks) into my lower neck areas which are very visible and was also not advised on the right procedure. In fact I didn't get any advice at all as the surgeon didn't speak English. I had an upper eye Blephoroplasty ( removal of skin) when I know now; I should have had a brow or forehead lift first. To late now!
I made an attempt to complain but suddenly they didn't understand English! they had my money and were so aggressive I just couldn't wait to get home as fast as possible.
When I arrived back home I told Mark that given the opportunity I could make a much better job of it, give the kind of care that I would have liked. I was determined to develop my own cosmetic surgery holiday business. So basically, that's how and why Cosmedicare4u was created, to provide an alternative, a better alternative to the cheap cut price conveyor belt cosmetic surgery that I had, where the highest standard of cosmetic surgery is combined with professional supportive care, given by me.
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