Comments for Dr. Nancy Van Laecken
This was the worst plastic surgeon! I kept cancelling my appointment because I was terrified; I wanted to say no, but felt obligated. The doctor van laecken said that she would cut the xanthalasma from under my eyes, scrape it away, and after there would be just tiny thread size white lines after. I believed her, but I agreed to her just doing my right eye.
On Jan 20, 1996, a friend brought me to st. Paul's for the procedure which I believed to be minor. while on the gurney, myself being absolutely terrified and not wanting to be there, she said why not do the other eye while she's at it. She really wanted to butcher me.
After the procedure was over, Dr. Van Laecken said to look in the mirror, i would see that its nothing. Well, I looked in the hand mirror and went into shock; I saw my face with black eyes, Frankinstein zipper stitches and red blood dripping down my blue-black bruised face. I was so traumatized!!
I cried and cried and she didn't know what to do; she did just that nothing; she said she was not trained in trauma!
I stayed indoors for one and a half months after this; I believed I turned into a freak, a monster that I was afraid of. To this day, that surgery is with me every time I look in the mirror. I am reminded of the damage she caused. She changed my face; she created a bag under my left eye in particular, directly caused by her stitches on my eyes!!
I tried to sue, but my lawyer at the time said that I was too old (not even forty and looked about 25), and I was too naive to go to another lawyer for advice. I never forget this terrible traumatic time!
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