Lipo with Mr Joliffy and the Team Started by: ADs

So I thought I should give a fair review based on my own experience with the Mya Team and Mr. Joliffy for the Vaser Lipo surgery today.

I went to few clinic to have consultations. Funny thing is some of the doctors are not interested to do Vaser since it takes time and cheaper than Breast implementation. But luckily I met Cloe (my patient consultant) and Mr. Joliffy. Cole is very friendly and talkative, which made Mr. Joliffy seems even more introvert. He doesn’t talk much but he is very professional, no selling schemes, all about the honest suggestions, very efficient.

My operation was booked about a month after the consultation. At this time period, I paid all my fees, sent over my ID for age reason. Also had my Pre Operation Consultation ( height, weight, blood pressure, blood test, GP letter, photos of the op area, go through the before/ after surgery care paperwork). I had this with Lourdes, she is very nice, friendly and careful about details – she will make sure everything health related is done properly before your surgery.

As suggested, you cannot smoke or drink or take fish oils, etc. before the Op for at least a week. They will give you a huge list to follow up, don’t worry too much, just read carefully …

/ A day before the Op /

I bought myself a good inflatable bed from Amazon with the built-in pump, and put it in my living room. I made a nice cozy bed covered with some fresh towel and lots of pillows- I heard I will leek a lot of ‘body fluid’ after the op, I wasn’t sure what it is, but I was sure I didn’t want anything messy on my bed… Also, my bedroom is as upstairs, the toilet is downstairs, I really didn’t want to go up and down all the times after the Op. I slept at 11 pm with some food, and woke up at 6:30 am, took a nice shower, removed all the nail polish, jewelry, made sure no face cream or makeups, and made it 7:30am to the clinic.

/ On the day /

After a quick check-in, nurse Ewa took me to a nice little warm private room with TV, ventilation fan tower and individule bathroom. She helped me to change, gave me the knee height socks to prevent blood clots to wear, explained and checked me again with the general health and allergy details.

After that, the anesthetist came in, I forgot his name, but he is a very lovely man. He double checked all the health conditions again and then explained me the differences between local and general anesthesia. He recommended me to do local anesthesia according to my size and the areas for lipo- I am about 168cm and 63kg, and I only have some stubborn fat around my waist and back flanks. However, I have chosen general anesthesia instead, because I really didn’t want to wake up at the mid of the op and follow the doctor’s order to turn around, etc. I’d rather sleep from the start to the end and let the doctor do everything. Altho with general anesthesia, you will have longer recovery period with all the dizzy, drowsy, coldness, sickness etc… After that, we signed the risk agreement.

Then Mr. Joliffy came in, he marked the op areas, he was happy and more talktive today, maybe just want to make me feel less stressed. Overal it was a very nice, professional and efficient time with him.

The annoying part was you are not allowed to eat for 8 hours before your Op, and only allowed to drink water until 2 hours before the Op. I was so thirsty and almost begging for water. But since if you have fluid in your stomach during anesthesia, it can run inside of your lung and that is actually very dangerous, so I didn’t complain too much…

There was a little delay since I was the second one of the day to use the theater. The first patient was late, so I had to wait. My suggestion is to sign up for the earliest slot for the Op appointment as possible. Otherwise, you might end up to wait for very long time because of other patients before you, and beware you cannot eat or drink during all this time.

Around 11:30 am, the nurse took me to the anesthesia room. The anesthetist was already there, I had been asked to lay down on a trolly bed, the room temperature was bit cold, the anesthetist told me this is for the anti-infection reason. However, they did put a cozy blanket on me, so it was okay. The anesthetist checked my blood pressure, heartbeat once more, then put a intravenous detaining needle on the back of my hand. He was joking that’s gonna be the most painful moment in the whole Op process ( he was kind of right). After few mins, he injected the liquids, first the clear one, then the white liquid, the white one was a badass… I didn’t even notice what’s going on, everything already finished!

/ Post Op/
I woke up by the voice of two nurses at 3 pm, they were trying to ask me to lift up my back so they can put the garment on me. It was awfully uncomfortable- from the dizziness, sickness, and lighted head, and also the faintly pain of the Op areas. I asked the nurse for a container to puke, but since I didn’t eat or drink for more than 15 hours, there wasn’t anything to throw up. I don’t remember too much about that room anymore, but it was definitely really really bad feeling, anxious, cold, wet from the leeking, sickness, cannot really even see or focus properly.

After few mins a male nurse took me back to my room, it was so nice and warm. Nurse Ewa was already there waiting for me, she was so lovely and caring with all her heart. I was bit freaked out with the leaking- it’s a mixture of blood and body fluids from the Op. And IT WAS UNSTOPPABLE. She stayed with me, changed the cotton pad under my garment over and over. She was checking my blood pressure and waking me up to ask me to drink more water, because I was sleeping all the times and my blood pressure dropped low. She helped me to go to the toilet to pee and even put the period pad on for me since it was leakage everywhere and so not comfortable…

Around 5 pm, I felt bit better, Ewa prepared me some toast with Nutella and berry jam and pot of tea, she even opened the little jam bottle for me. I was so touched … I ate my food, slept for another half hour, around 7:30 pm my friend came over to pick me up. Before they release me, the other medical adviser doctor came in, explained to me how to take the antibiotics and the painkillers. The other nurse came and wrapped me around with the waterproofed cotton pad, in case I get any leakage on my trousers.

We called a Uber and got home by 8:30pm. I had to unwrap and then wrap myself again with the black towel I bought earlier. Also, cover my bedsheets with the waterproofed cotton pad and some more towel… the leaking was crazy, I couldn’t even stand there for a min because the liquid will just drip down.

I took my antibiotics and fall into sleep until 1 am, and now typing here. The leaking has stopped, but the pain has revealed, mainly on my back flanks… but it’s bearable as long as I don’t move around. I am still wearing the knee height socks to prevent blood clots, it has been 22 hours since i put them on, it gets very itch, but I cannot really remove them until I can move around freely.

(That’s it for now, I will update you guys tmr:) )