Subject: saw Plastic Disasters
From: Almitra1 - Sent:-7/19/2007-
Hello Lucille,
I don't really think you realize what you were on "Plastic Disasters" for. It was so obvious that they included you to show the audience how mentally unstable people can be unbelievably obsessed with something that simply isn't there. They were brilliant by having you show how plastic surgery brings the wackos out of the woodwork. It's so obvious that you are twisting your neck around in different contortions for the camera and whoever will watch. To say you would die if you sat in a normal position is laughable. You need more therapy. Do you not realize how crazy you appeared on that show? That's what kept me watching. You're like a train wreck that people have to stop and look at. You are a bizarre crazy woman. You should be more upset about your mediocre nose job than anything! Get a grip lady! Stop being so self absorbed and get some reality into your life.
Stop pulling your face around with those forcep gadgets. If anyone is making your skin looser it is you by constantly hanging and tugging on your neck and chin. Stop complaining, see a good psychiatrist and get on some good antipsychotic meds.
To Almitra 1:
I am quite aware that the filmmakers purposefully portrayed me as "a bizarre crazy woman". I felt exploited and betrayed, as I was repeatedly assured that the surgeon who participated in the project was "on my side" and willing to state, on camera, that my documented medical conditions were caused by my surgery. Medical records confirming my breathing and swallowing disorders in relation to my surgery are posted right here on this website. The doctor and filmmakers shamelessly betrayed my trust. If they wish refute this, I invite them to do so on this website, should they wish to defend their actions.
I entrusted the filmmakers with 86 hours of my personal video diary, spanning 4 + years. It was inconceivable to me that they would contrive a scene of 90 second duration, dissecting clips from 20 different dates and 25 diary entries (1999 to 2004) including everything from my leaning into and adjusting the camera to footage of positions recommended by a radiologist for x-rays (pulling out and protruding the tongue.) Interspersed with clips of emotional anguish edited out of contest, they fabricated the emotional "train wreck" that "kept you watching". Brilliant, indeed.
You are the perfect audience...glued to the screen exactly as you are programmed to do, unable to discern "creative editing" obvious to more astute viewers. As long as audiences consist of people like you, filmmakers will exploit and sacrifice the integrity of their subjects for top dollar financing of film projects.
I cannot comment on your faulty perception regarding the necessity to keep my head in positions which allow me to breathe. Perhaps the report by my pulmonologist confirming the diagnosis of positional airway obstruction may enlighten you, as may my medical records describing the purpose of the forceps used in a fluoroscopic study, which determined the tension on the platysma muscle as the cause of my swallowing disorder. The medical terminology used in these reports is easily understandable. Therefore, you should not find them difficult to interpret.
I am sorry you think my nose job mediocre. Had it not caused permanent stretching and damage to my facelift, which, at 8 weeks was not sufficiently healed to withstand the trauma of another facial surgery, I would have been delighted with the result. In and of itself, it is exactly the nose I wanted, and I think Dr. Schneider did a great job. Unfortunately, and unbeknown to me at the time, Dr. Joel Feldman, the supervising surgeon, held a double standard for private patients and those he attended in the Residents' Clinic at MGH. While he did not hesitate to allow my rhinoplasty so soon after my facelift, I am sure Dr. Feldman would never subject one of his private patients to the same.
As for psychiatrists and antipsychotic drugs, I will pass on these and leave them to others (like you?) who lack the inner strength to deal with adversity, or those willing to relinquish their personal power for an expedient mental and emotional "fix". For me, awareness of reality, even when it is painful, is preferable to being drugged or verbally manipulated into the complacent stupefaction of accepting wrongful actions on the part of doctors.
Lastly, I suggest you read the book "How Doctors Think" by Jerome Groopman, M.D. Your perception of my experience is a strong indication of your ignorance regarding the medical profession. One day you may be in desperate need of medical attention, only to find the doctor you depend on for help considers your condition "laughable", just as you do mine.
Thank you for sharing your opinion. It has given me more appreciation for my own inner strength.
