Even Minor Surgury Should Be Done By a Doctor
February 22nd, 2009
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Yes, that sounds like a pretty obvious headline to start off with. Who the hell would ever allow a non-professional to start cutting, stitching, injecting or otherwise operating on their body? Well, apparently some do, and for two women in Florida it has resulted in serious, potentially fatal injury:
Two Tampa Women Hospitalized After Homemade Silicone Injections
Two women from Tampa, Florida, are suffering serious health consequences after they allowed a woman to inject their buttocks with a homemade silicon solution to enhance their appearances. Both women, in their 30s, were hospitalized after the injections made them gravely ill.
Police arrested Sharhonda Lindsay, 32, on two counts of practicing medicine without a license, a third-degree felony that could bring a five-year jail sentence. She brewed up a concoction of commercial-grade silicone gel and saline in a kitchen before injecting it into one of the hospitalized women 40 times in the buttocks and the other woman 20 times. Lindsay was paid $500 for the 40 injections and $250 for the 20.
So basically it would seem that this woman, Sharhonda Lindsay has been taking it upon her self to whip up some home-brew butt filler out of industrial grade silicone and saline solution. Clearly this is not a safe thing to do, both due to the quality of the stuff being injected and the training of the person injecting it (or lack there of in both cases.) One might think that this is just an isolated case of a couple of morons taking it upon themselves to remove their genes from the breeding population, but apparently that’s not the case.
Apparently this whole thing has become a popular issue of discussion on the internet. Getting even minor cosmetic surgery done is always going to cost more than a few dollars – any doctor is going to want to consult with the patient first, use sterilized instruments and work in a controlled setting with specially manufactured and approved materials. These all cost money and since the procedures are elective, insurance generally won’t pick up the tab. Thus, people (mostly women) are sharing advice on how to self-administer industrial silicone, baby oil, paraffin and various other things to perk up whatever area they think needs perking.
Via the Saint Petersberg Times:
Online forums have a way of bringing together people with unique interests. Like knitting, for instance. Or cosmetic butt injections.
On a Topix.com forum dedicated to the quest for big, big butts, women look for “hookups” to get what they want: I need a booty asap, writes Needs Booty Bad from Brooklyn.
There’s no talk of bun-busting exercises. In thousands of posts, women say the remedy is a shot — make that, dozens of them — with an illegal silicone solution to grow their bottoms to look like J-Lo’s, round and bubbly, or hip-hop model Buffie “the body” Carruth’s, which might be called epic.
Because the silicone solution is illegal to inject, the shots are often administered at private “pumping parties” by strangers who have no medical experience.
It’s a bit difficult to tell how many may be partisipating in these activities and how many may have been injured or killed by such activities. This is not the kind of thing that many want to go and report to medical professionals, if only because they are probably aware that it’s not entirely legal. In 2006, a doctor in Texas documented at least fourty four patients who suffered complications from such unlicences procedures, with a quarter of them eventually dying as a result of their fly-by-night injections.
This procedure might be mistaken for being entirely a class-based practice, and although it does seem to be more prevelant in some cultures, there are also reports of Beverly Hills housewives looking to keep up with the others while saving a few pennies by going with the no-medical-license discount. After all, there’s nothing more bothersome to a yuppy than the next fassionable procedure being just a hair past the budget, especially when the neighbor just got it.
Honestly, I don’t understand why anyone would want a big butt anyway. But that’s just me. In any case, the buttocks injections seem to have generated the most number of severe injuries but the injections are made elsewhere too. The fact that not all women who get this done get sick imediatly also may contribute to the growing popularity of this dangerous procedure.
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February 22nd, 2009 at 5:22 am
Oh, vanity, thy name is Woman!
-anon
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February 22nd, 2009 at 12:46 pm
It’s not an issue of wanting a big butt, it’s an issue of wanting a shapely, firm butt. Big and flabby is no good at all, but its no good to have your butt look like a deflated balloon either. That’s the whole point.
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February 22nd, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Giant Pulsating Brain said:
There is a point to this activity? Look there is nothing in the way of body enhancement that is worth risking one’s life. People who feel they need this sort of thing have a major problem with body-image on a par with anorexics.
To me any guy that puts a woman’s bottom or boobs ahead of kind eyes and a quick smile isn’t worth the time of day, because for sure those are the things a woman will still have after thirty years and a couple of kids.
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February 22nd, 2009 at 2:57 pm
DV82XL said:
Perhaps, but cosmetic surgery has it’s place. It could be used to correct a real and obvious defect, like a scar or malformed caused by injury or surgery or it could be just to make the body look more like the individual wants it to. Like breast augmentation could be done in someone who has a severe asymmetry of the breasts which is difficult to hide and looks very akward. Someone might also want cosmetic surgery because for their whole life they’ve been annoyed by the fact that their nose is ****ed to the side or has a big bump in it.
I mean we do live in a world that judges by looks quite a lot and for those who are in the entertainment field its basically a necessity. I don’t see why there’s any problem with it when someone looks in the mirronr and keeps thinking ‘damnit, I always look tired with those big bags under my eyes.’ If it makes a person feel better to have a facelift or a boob job or whatever then why not?
It can be overdone, that is for sure. It can be overdone badly. I’m just saying that I don’t see why it needs to always be considered a problem or anything. If someone has an asymetric butt or a butt that they just don’t like the look of and can’t seem to get right with exercise then why not get some work done?
Of course, I’m in no way suggesting that industrial silicone from an unlicenced person on the internet would be the way to go, but I’m just saying that it’s not something that is universally to be looked down on or anything. I’d consider cosmetic surgery myself if I weren’t so amazingly handsome as is.
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February 22nd, 2009 at 3:11 pm
“Silicone” is not a single compound. It is a whole class of compounds that have similar characteristics (usually) but cover a huge range of different chemicals. Some silicones are liquid and used as a lubricant or solvent others are flexible solid and others are a jell. Many of the industrial ones actually contain solvents that evaporate to harden the material and some may have a combination of chemicals. Silicone products are sometimes called rubber or silicone rubber even though that’s not totally accurate. Some silicone products are a semi liquid but harden after absorbing atmospheric moisture.
Medical grade silicone is very pure and there are just a few silicone compounds that are approved for medical use. So just buying ‘industrial silicone’ and injecting it is a HORRIBLE idea. Industrial silicone, depending on the application could be a compound intended to harden over time or it could be a product that contains toxic additives like solvents, lubricants or bacteria inhibitors.
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February 22nd, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Q said:
I wrote “…there is nothing in the way of body enhancement that is worth risking one’s life“ A statement I still stand by.
Cosmetic surgery does indeed have it’s legitimate applications, however wanting a huge rack, or huge butt well beyond what is average, or appropriate for your body type, is not among these.
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February 23rd, 2009 at 12:13 am
How does one even offer such a service? I can’t imagine the chutzpah required for rolling up on a strange woman and asking her if she wants some caulk in her butt.
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February 23rd, 2009 at 2:44 pm
apotheosis said:
Craigslist?
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February 23rd, 2009 at 5:12 pm
apotheosis, I think that’s the funniest thing I’ve heard said all day.
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February 24th, 2009 at 4:33 am
DV82XL said:
I could be a bitch and say that all surgery has the remote risk of loss of life due to a bad reaction to the anesthesia or something, but i get your point. I’d say that there’s a huge difference between the tiny risk associated with a procedure to correct a major disfigurement or something versus having a non-professional pump your rear end full of industrial grade silicone.
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February 24th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
That is pretty funny.
I should say, trained people can do a pretty good job in a tight spot. My family isn’t really rich, and when I was a kid I got a cut on my leg from a nail and my mom stitched it up. No problems, and it cost just a few dollars instead of the cost of a hospital visit. Not encouraging that, but for people of limited means knowing how to do just some basic medical care can save a good bit of money or keep people healthy who otherwise wouldn’t visit a hopsital anyway.
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February 24th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Don’t try performing stitches on yourself though, it’s nearly impossible. I tried cleaning up a wound and closing it up when I didn’t have anyone to help me. Physically I was capable of it, but mentally it’s impossible. You get a nauseating feeling and very quickly being feeling like you need to lie down, no matter what, even if you really want to continue. No, I don’t get lots of wounds, these are just my two experiences with this type of thing. Now that I will have national healthcare though, I won’t bother with this, just go to the ER instead, heh.
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November 11th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
People should be careful of this they know whats indemand right now for these guys especially ladies to do surgery and other operation just to make their body beautiful.. Some quack doctors now pretends to a specialist just to do these plastic surgery because of money..
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