Fear and regret

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To: Beverly J.Doucette
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 2:13 PM
Subject: Urgent!!!

Dear Beverly,

I come to you out of fear and regret. My name is . I was the 16 th American patient to go for surgery with Dr. K. I am in pain and have come forward with this info to first of all, Dr. K, and now the people that I have been in contact in telling them not to go to Germany, but I had no idea that there was so much more going on than I could of ever imagined. Thru a mutual person that we both know, I recieved your letter to "Crissy" and have read the entire contents. I am in agreeance that no one should go to him. But I have a question: I have seen gauze being used in 4 pictures that were taken during my 1st surgery. I have pain around my belly button to the point that I cannot wear any article of clothing that touches this skin. The pain is getting worse on a daily basis and I'm fearing that I have been injured thru the proscess of the Abdo Lift....which I was also told Dr. K invented. I recently found out that this is not true .....I believe the first one invented is in Ohio. I am at my wits end. I don't care who knows about this letter. I don't care who you tell, just please tell others not to go.....it's not worth it as I once "shouted from the roof tops" on Dr. K's website. I feel like a complete idiot and have begged for forgiveness to those who were the butt of my harsh words. For the most part, I have kept my mouth shut as to what really happened in Germany to me. But I will not any longer. I had so many complications after my surgery. First of all, I was hemorraging for at least one full day after he took out my drain and he finally put in two more stitches to control the bleeding.....I was soaking thru 6 huge, thick gauze pads within minutes, my blood pressure was in the 40s on both top and bottom numbers, I was hallucinating, throwing up and yet Dr. K demanded that i walk around and "stop just laying there like that" as he acted out how I was acting, humiliating me infront of the nurses, my husband, my room partner. I felt like I was dying and I was told to get up and walk to make my own blood pressure rise thru exercize. I had to make the nurses put on a blood pressure cuff on me to find out why I felt like I was leaving my own body. I told my husband that I felt like I was dying. The nurses called Dr. K in the middle of the night to tell him that I was going down hill fast to please come to the hospital, but he chose not to come until the next day. I had soaked my bed with blood many many times before he put in those two stitches. When I had my second look, I was cut open twice, not once, because for days, I had hemorraged inside and was filled up with blood that he said he rinsed out very carefully. I had a bruise for two to three months after surgery that just now has completely left and the pain on my pubic bone is now finally gone. I thought "wow, this was a very crude surgery, but it must just be thier tecqunices here in Germany." I made up every excuse in the book why the pain was still there. I even told my husband that it was just from me eating too much cheese, or not drinking enough water.....I drink about 1/2 to 1 gal of water a day on the average day. I have tried to tell everyone how wonderful Dr. K was until the day that I wrote to him telling him that I have pain and he was defensive. I have not wrote to him again and I don't think that I owe that man any explanation. I was told to be hush hush about anything that happened to me while in Germany. So I have been, but I'm not going to be any more. Please help me understand the seriousness of this surgery with the abdo lift. I am in a daze just in denial and then a sobbing mess on the floor, and then back to the realization that it's not my fault that I didn't know. Please help me! I'm so scared!

Thank you for your words. I'm at a complete loss now as I do not know what my future holds. I do know this, I will discourage anyone that is thinking about going to NOT GO TO GERMANY!!! If my story will help others, please use it.