{"id":285145,"date":"2019-12-16T12:53:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1103185"},"modified":"2019-12-16T12:53:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T19:53:09","slug":"botched-patient-melissa-explains-how-series-of-nightmare-breast-surgeries-stopped-my-whole-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/botched-patient-melissa-explains-how-series-of-nightmare-breast-surgeries-stopped-my-whole-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Botched Patient Melissa Explains How Series of Nightmare Breast Surgeries &#8221;Stopped My Whole Life&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20191116\/rs_600x600-191216085647-600Melissa-Botched607.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.0318275154\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"21.480492813142\">\n<p>Can Drs. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/terry_dubrow\">Terry Dubrow<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/paul_nassif\">Paul Nassif<\/a><\/strong> turn this around?<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Botched<\/em> doctors face another complicated case in this clip from tonight&#8217;s new episode, which finds the medical duo in the midst of their first consult with hopeful plastic surgery patient <strong>Melissa<\/strong>. After two breast augmentations, a bungled corrective surgery and several waves of physical complications, the Ft. Lauderdale resident is eager to improve her chest&#8217;s present appearance as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I kind of just stopped my whole life,&#8221; she explains, recounting her fourth and most recent doctor&#8217;s decision to remove a nightmarish pair of implants whose poor suturing technique resulted in a seroma\u2014a &#8220;low-grade inflammatory reaction&#8221; characterized by &#8220;leaking of the surrounding cells,&#8221; as Dr. Dubrow goes on to explain.<\/p>\n<p>After that final procedure left Melissa&#8217;s breasts scarred and misshapen (she describes them as a &#8220;shredded meat fest&#8221; earlier in the episode), she decided to move back in with her family.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"65.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"21\">\n<p>The patient&#8217;s mom, seated beside her at the <em>Botched<\/em> office&#8217;s conference room table, confirms the surgery&#8217;s impact on her daughter&#8217;s day-to-day habits and overall well-being.&nbsp;&#8220;She&#8217;s literally in her room,&#8221;&nbsp;she notes gravely, and Melissa quickly reiterates, &#8220;I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Neither doctor shares a potential plan of action to restore Melissa&#8217;s appearance by the new clip&#8217;s end, but here&#8217;s hoping they will come tonight. As Melissa tells the camera moments later, the string of surgeries stripped her of much more than just her breast implants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything that I was, I&#8217;m not,&#8221; she says with tears in her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Melissa&#8217;s frightening plastic surgery experience in the full clip above.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch a brand new episode of <i>Botched<\/i> Monday at 10 p.m., only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1103185\/botched-patient-melissa-explains-how-series-of-nightmare-breast-surgeries-stopped-my-whole-life?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can Drs. Terry Dubrow and Paul Nassif turn this around? The Botched doctors face another complicated case in this clip from tonight&#8217;s new episode, which finds the medical duo in the midst of their first consult with hopeful plastic surgery patient Melissa. After two breast augmentations, a bungled corrective surgery and several waves of physical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-08 22:06:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}