Replies to 'How Plastic Surgery Has Changed My Life'

I hope no one has the same experience I had with a tummny tuck several years ago.  I had one done at UC Davis University Hospital in Sacramento.  A girlfriend of mine also had one about the same time.  Hers turned out beautifully.  Mine was pretty well botched.  I have a big scar, and a big 'blob, for want of a better word, and my stomache never did get 'flat'.  I thought at first that that was how it was supposed to be, and kept waiting for it to 'go down' but it never did.  I finally decided to just live with it as I really couldn't afford to have it redone.  A year or so ago, after many years, I went to another plastic surgeron here in Sacramento just for a consultation, and to find out how much all of the plastic surgery I wanted would cost.  He took one look at my tummy and he said that the first thing he would want to do was correct the scar onmy stomache and 'fix' the tummy tuck that obviously didn't happen right.  I still haven't had it done (can't really afford it - I got divorced, I'm now retired, and my income has dropped!) but when I 'win the Lottery'; or come into some major cash, I fully intend to have it redone by another surgeon.   This time I did my homework and know which doctors have the best repulation and credibility.  My comment to all this is to suggest that no one ever go to a teaching hospital where the doctors (who aren't really doctors yet) do the surgery, and then don't even admit that they screwed up the surgery!t