Please imagine this liberally peppered with the F word and sobs...

My good friends rearranged their days to drive me up to what ended up to be a 5pm appointment. It's 60 miles each way from my house in LA rush hour traffic. The office person had told me they all leave at 5, so we would need to stand in the hallway until the doctor showed up. Fine. We make pretty good time up there and are literally getting off the freeway at his exit when she calls and tells me he won't be able to make it.

I was speechless. She said she can fit me in tomorrow at 2. I said, but I already had an appointment tomorrow at 11! Oh she gave that away. All I could say was, you're kidding over and over. She finally said I could still come at 11.

So I burst into tears for the 3rd time today and start apologizing profusely to my friends as we get off the freeway and back on in the other direction to head home.

Total time in the car for absolutely nothing: 3 and a half hours. And I am now a double-booked appointment at my original time tomorrow. And I still have infected incisions. I could not be more disappointed with how he runs his office.

My friends said not to make decisions while I'm so upset, but honestly after this and the "get a bedpan" answer when I called for help after become incontinent after the catheter was removed, I'm not sure I'll use him for my remaining surgery.

I've heard the recovery on thighs is tough. Luckily, I was very apple-shaped, and my thighs were never all that bad to begin with (even when I was SMO). The skin is definitely crepe-y, but I'm 58 years old - it's not like I'm going to be wearing short shorts or mini skirts. Otherwise, they look pretty thin when I'm wearing pants - with a noticeable "thigh gap". So I think I'm safe to skip those. This stomach is awful, though!!

Shifrin will never do surgeries in a hospital, but Krochmal will - I had him quote it in a hospital setting - think it was $400 more?

Good luck!

I am researching who I want to do my thighs and struggling with how bad the healing is on thighs!

I had my body work done with Capella and it turned out very nicely, except that I had a serious complication with my arm lift. I went from a size 14 to a size 2 which thrilled me and I can wear all of the clothes that I could never wear before -- short skirts, thongs, bikinis... amazing. He is quite affordable as far as plastic surgeons go... not much more than that Sauceda surgeon in MX that some people on this board have gone to.

TT $7k

Arm lift, breast lift, inner thigh lift, and convert TT to LBL $16k

You can get pricing on RealSelf.