Hello hello hello Facebook, I am Dr. Myla
Bennett of Ederra Bella Plastic Surgery and
Medical Spa in Johns Creek, Georgia. Sorry
I'm trying to share this to my other pages,
so we can get more people on. Good afternoon,
I want to say happy Sunday, but it's not really
all that happy. This is not a good topic and
I don't go live and talk about every time
I hear about someone died, but I felt really
moved to share this woman's story, her sister
reached out to me.
Actually, a couple days ago one of my other
followers reached out and said someone else
died so people always like DM'd me when something
bad happens. And so Friday night someone DM
me, I didn't see it until Saturday and told
me that another person died, but she didn't
have many details and you know she didn't
know much, but she said, she saw it inside
of one of the groups she's in, and I'm like
who, like what happened, where was it, and so,
she tried to go back into the group to find
it and it was deleted. But she found a post
from one of the girls’ friends, her surgery
sister, which I didn't know what that meant
til today.
When she and her surgery sister on her page,
was basically saying like goodbye to
her friend, and they both went to get surgery
together and she survived and her friend did
not. So, she sent me that picture, so I got
the girls first name, the lady is a woman,
it's not a girl, she's 45 years old, her first
name, but that was all I had and I didn't
you know, I won't say I didn't think much of
it, I was sad, but you know that was kind of
all I got.
So, at 1:30 today, another person DM'd me and
I think she might even did it yesterday I
just saw it, no it was 1:30 today, it was
1:30 today and I saw it at like 3, what time is it, 3:50, yeah
about three o'clock, and she said my sister
died on June 7, she had surgery on June 2nd
and she died on June 7th, and I responded
back and I said what happened you know, and
she gave me her number and asked me to call
her and I called her and I spoke with her about
everything that happened and she shared with
me her sister's name, and her sister, her name
is Alicia Renette Williams, and she's a mother,
she has a fourteen-year-old son.
She is a teacher, she lived in Birmingham,
Alabama and she was a teacher at Huffman High
School. She taught English, she got her bachelor's
from Jacksonville State and then she went
on and got her master's degree in English.
She was really active in her church; she went
to New Beginnings Christian Church and she
was very active in her church, and she, her
sister said that she loved fashion and she
was a diva. She was a really creative person
and she loved her students and her students
loved her,
and then her son got on the phone and I, you
know, he said that he wanted everyone to know
that his mother was a social butterfly and
she was a great cook and she was very loving
and his favorite thing she made for him was
red velvet cake. She's not a doll, she's a
woman and she's not here, and her sister told
me that she and Alicia would watch my videos
and Alicia would engage on my videos and ask
me questions, and I feel like a failure because
as much as I talk about how to be safe, she
still went there and did something that wasn't
safe and now she's gone.
And her family's trying to get her body back
into the United States and she hasn't even
spoken with the doctor. So, she said what
happened was her sister went for liposuction
of her arms, lipo 360, a tummy tuck, and a Brazilian
butt lift. Her sister was anemic before surgery
and that was a known information, and apparently
there was a lot of surgeries planned for that
day and hers didn't happen until 6 p.m. on
Monday evening, and she came out of surgery
okay, well you know she survived surgery, went
to the recovery home.
And you know her sister had communication
with her and her, what she called her U.S.
nurse, which apparently the U.S. nurse is the
person who kind of ran the surgery group that
she was in that helped connect her with
the doctor that she ended up going to. And
so, she had communication with them via whatsapp
on Monday night after the surgery. She talked
to her sister on Tuesday, on Wednesday when
she tried to talk to her, her sister was like
you know I'm too weak to talk, so I'm gonna
call you back. By Thursday she looked so bad
that they were like you need to go to the
hospital.
They took her to the hospital Thursday evening
and her sister said that they sedated her
to give her IV fluids and blood and she died
at 6:30 in the morning on Friday. So, she
died Friday morning, surgery was Monday, she
died Friday, and now she hasn't talked to
the doctor, she uh, but the doctor got a message
through her like this was the only death he
had. He said that he would pay to have her
body shipped back here. She's trying to work
through the embassy to get her body back into
the United States. They have to do an autopsy
first and embalm her before they bring her
back, so she has to wait on that.
So, she says it'll be 10 to 15 days before
it happens, so they can get her back home,
and her sister's gone, she's not here, she's
gone for too much surgery. So, I talk about
this a lot like and a lot of reasons why people
are drawn to go to, one of the reasons that
people are drawn to go to places abroad to
have surgery is because of the lack of regulations
on how much blood and like how much liposuction
can be done in one setting, and you know people
can get more extreme results in one surgery
there.
And I don't know if that was her motivation
I don't know, I'm not really sure what her
motivation was to go, but that was a lot of
surgery to happen all at one time, and she
was anemic. So, she probably lost a lot of
blood, which is why she was saying she was
weak on Wednesday. And you know her body was
trying to compensate for as long as it could
and by the time they took her to the hospital, it
was too late to do anything, she passed. So,
you know a lot of times people will keep looking
until they find somebody to do exactly what
they're asking for.
No this is not the person who died in
Miami, she didn't go to Miami; she went
to the Dominican Republic.This kind of thing
happens in Miami too, probably happens in other
places, but those are the two places you hear
about it the most, like these extreme. When
you do too much at once, I don't care like
you there's only so much blood in your body,
and if you lose too much of it, that's not
compatible with life. So, they're gonna send
her back, probably on her death certificate,
it's gonna say cardiac arrest which means absolutely
nothing because the definition of death is
cardiac arrest.
Cardiac means heart, arrest means stops. The
definition of death is your heart stopping.
So, she's probably not gonna get very much
information from the death certificate. I
don't know, you know, I mean they just is that's
it, like she died, that's the end, she's not a doll
is all I can keep saying. I just wish people
would stop looking at plastic surgery like
it's a hobby or like some sort of a creative
activity or like you know you're not real
and you're trying to get this body like you're
not a person.
I think people need to use it with, treat plastic
surgery with a lot more care, because women
are dying left and right and it's ridiculous
and sad, and I personally feel like I'm failing
because all I'm trying to do is get people
to not die, and when I found out that the
woman actually watches my videos, it just
did something to me, like it just literally
broke my heart, like I started crying on the
phone like this, like what, I'm trying so hard
just to get people to understand, you know,
you don't have to die, you know I just feel
like I failed.
She's right in Birmingham, Alabama. All of my family is
in Birmingham, Alabama. She's from Atlanta
and she lives in Alabama and teaches at this
this high school there. So, now all those
kids are, you know the school is not gonna
be the same, all of her students are gonna
be heartbroken, and her legacy is that she
died from, part of her legacy, not her whole
legacy, but she died getting a BBL. You know
I just feel sad, like that's probably not even
the right word it's just, how about you don't
go to the Dominican Republic.
It's not like it matters, like so many people,
the lady that I interviewed before who had
her bad infection from the Dominican Republic
that had cleared up, it's back, like stop, it's
not a good place to go for surgery. It's not
safe, even if you live, you can get complications
that will plague you for years, or things that
you can never get rid of like that's the wrong
question, just like when people will say well
how much fat will you remove at once, that's
a question, when people ask me that, what
I hear is, are you willing to kill me? Because
you're gonna keep asking until you find somebody
who's gonna take off whatever you ask and
that might be something that's gonna kill
you.
Like the line of questioning is just no,
like that question was just, it don't even
matter. She went to a person, this surgeon
didn't have any deaths before, but he knew
and she probably had an inkling that that
was too much surgery to have all at one time.
That was the problem she didn't get, it don't
sound like she had a fat embolism, she probably
would have died sooner if it was that, probably.
She probably lost too much blood, especially
in light of the fact that she was kind of
anemic to begin with. So, the question is
how do I be safe? Because it's up to you at
this point, we have some renegade plastic
surgeons and renegade physicians pretending
to be surgeons who do whatever you ask them
to do.
So, if you don't have an inkling of what's
safe and reasonable, you could end up dead
too, it doesn't matter which doctor it is.
So, I'm not saying his name, it's a him though, I'm
not saying his name. She had liposuction of her
arms, liposuction of her abdomen, sides and
back, fat transferred to her butt and hips,
that's what she had done. So, just like when
I have patients, I'm like yeah well that's
gonna be two surgeries or that might even be three
surgeries depending on what you have going
on. If you've lost a bunch of weight and you
got skin hanging in a lot of different places
and you need lipo and you need skin excision
of your arms and your belly and your thighs,
I'm not doing that all at one time.
And when people are, they'll be upset and
I just sit there and I take the time to talk
to them and I'm like listen, I just canceled
somebody this week. The day before her surgery
when her labs and stuff finally came in and
her clearance finally came from her doctor
and it was barely a clearance and she had
major issues metabolically, and I was like
yeah, we can't do this, and you know she came
into the office and I sat down with her myself
I didn't have my staff tell her, and I'm like
listen, this is not safe, we can't do this.
And it was you know a lot of money and I was
like, I refunded her right before stuff,
every single penny, even her deposit, I gave
it all back because I'm like, listen I will
not help you kill yourself, you might be able
to find somebody else to do it, but I sat
there long enough to explain to her why I
thought it was, that it was deadly to do surgery
on her right now in this setting, so that
at least my job, instead of me just saying
no I'm cancelling your surgery, here's your
money back and going on by my business, so
that she can go into somebody else's office
and let them hurt her.
I tried to explain to her why I thought it
was a deadly thing for her to get plastic
surgery, and right now in this setting,
and so that she wouldn't do that and that
was, that's the best that I could do, and I
gave her all of her money back and she left
with an attitude. I mean, I rather somebody be
mad at me and be allowed to be mad then oops
and she's dead next, because she really really
wanted it, like that's not we, you know as surgeons
we're supposed to be responsible and do the
right thing, but the problem is that all these
surgeons aren't doing the right thing, some
of these people aren't even surgeons.
So, you know you have to be responsible for
yourself like everybody always wants to go
pointing a finger and blaming somebody else,
but people know, like when I'm like we gonna
have to do it, I was scared you was gonna say
that, why are you scared I'm gonna say that?
You should be glad I said that you know, like
you should be happy that I'm not willing to
murder you for $10,000. You know it's just,
it's extremely unfortunate like I'm just really
bummed about the whole thing.
So, I'm gonna go back and see some of these
comments, because I wasn't paying attention.
You all if you haven't done it already, could
you share the video and let's try to get the
word out? And prayers out to Alicia Renette
Williams' family, prayers out to the students
at Huffman High School in Birmingham, Alabama,
prayers out to the members of New Beginnings
Christian Church in Birmingham, prayers out
to her sister, her son, her friends and everybody
who loves her, you know, that’s it.
So, Stephanie Preston said, oh my god you
have to do your homework. So, she did all
the homework that everyone else does. She
was watching videos; she was looking at before
and after pictures. Her surgeon actually hadn't
had any deaths, at least that's what he said.
I mean, you know hopefully that's true maybe
it's not, I have no idea, but you have to
not be, I don't know that she was desperate,
I don't know if that's the, the space she
was in, as far as wanting the body so bad,
but I spoke about this on a recent video that
those groups, they just the whole culture
within those groups is set up to kind of get
you kind of locked in and you don't even realize
it's so like insidious and slick, and you
know your, if you just think about it, most
of us are on our phones for a significant
portion of our day at some point on social
media, scrolling through in a timeline on
Facebook, Instagram, snaps on Snapchat, whatever
you know new fresh videos on YouTube, whatever,
but the group specifically it's kind of like
a bubble right.
So, you're in this group and everybody in
the group has the common, the commonality
of wanting plastic surgery or having had it,
okay, and leading up to people's surgeries,
they're posting about you know everything
about their surgery, oh do I think I need
a walker, do you guys get, where'd you get your
walker from for after your tummy tuck, I just
bought my recliner, oh I just got all of my
stuff, oh I just got my passport for my trip
to the Dominican Republic, oh I just got my
this, I got my that.
So, every day you're seeing this stuff about
people building up to their surgeries and
then they'll take a picture of themselves
in the pre-op area, like it's surgery day, you
know pray for me, blah, blah, and then they'll
post a picture of them like after surgery,
you know you can see their drains and their
stomach's flat, you know they take that picture
like this where you can see their stomach
is flat, I'm on the flat side, and then you
know a few weeks later they'll post a picture
in like some cute underwear or swimsuit or
their jeans with some stomach out or whatever
looking really good, and you're like, whoa
I can't wait til I get my surgery because
you're seeing this stuff constantly every
single day.
And then you know these women's bodies look
nice, you know and you look you want your body
like that, and then you go pulling up your
pants and you can't get them up or you can't
put on nothing without having on all kind of garments
and stuff to squeeze stuff and you keep seeing
this stuff and you want it. It builds like
a sense of urgency and desperation inside
of you just from the imagery that's coming
through your timeline every day and going
straight into your eyes and hitting your brain.
You don't even realize that how you easily
can start to become obsessed with it.
Now if you couple that with lack of financial
means and you so let's say you say yeah you
know, I'm gonna not go somewhere that's not
safe. I'm gonna try to go somewhere here and
then you go in a consultation with a doctor
in the United States, and they're like, oh
all that stuff, you say all this stuff to a
doctor in the United States, with the exception
of some of the places in Miami, but everywhere
else all these things that she got, you're
looking at $20,000 or something or more, and
if you're in LA, you know that might be $40,000 for
all that stuff.
And then you're like shoot I'll never have
the money for that, so then you're continuing
to see the stuff in these groups and you continue
to see person after person where stuff comes
out, great, you know why? Because just like
what happened to this girl, when somebody
posted inside of your group that she died,
by the time the person who told me about it
went back to try to see who, what happened
they had took the post down. They don't want
you to see that, the people who run those
groups don't want you to see that, they don't
want you to see that somebody just died.
They don't want that, and then people assume
that every time a person dies, it hits the
news, this girl, her death wasn't on the news,
did you guys see anything on the news about
her death? And it's definitely real, I just
talked to her sister, she died and it wasn't
on the news. Everything that happens is not
on the news you know that right. So, they
delete it quickly out of the group so that
you don't see it because they're not trying
to poison the whole group with death. Somebody
gets a complication, the girl who we, I interviewed
a few weeks ago, when she had her complication
and she put it in the group, they threw her out the group,
they threw her out the group.
She had to go find a wound group where you're
allowed to talk about your wounds because
that's what the group is about, but by the
time you get to the wound group, it's too late
you already did it. This, the images you're
being, this it's like a it's a biased representation
of what's going on. So, you keep seeing all
this good stuff, well it worked for them
so it's gonna work for me, but there's no,
so she went there with her surgery sister
which apparently is somebody she met in the
group, they connected, they decided they were
gonna go together for their surgery.
So, of the two people who went, one person
came back alive and the other one did not,
and there's no way to know which one you're
gonna be until it has already happened. And
the sad thing is, she's not feeling the pain
because she's dead, her family and her son,
they're the ones feeling the pain, she don't,
she's gone. Everybody else is left to feel
the pain, that boy don't have a mother, he
doesn't have a mother.
So, homework that came from do your homework,
like the whole do your research and all that
stuff is like you know use your common sense
is probably more appropriate. It sounds
like too much to do at once, but folks like
well so and so I, and then when you have people
and I'm sure it'll be people on my video,
making comments like well I went there and
I came out fine, so did her friend, but she
came out dead. Quit saying that crap because
you helping people get hurt. You got lucky,
you played Russian roulette and got lucky.
Yes, wrap your arms around her family, I so
agree Letricka Edwards. Am I talking about
Sara? No, the person that died, her name is
not Sara, so someone named Sara died too,
you see what I'm saying y'all. It's more, it's
so many women dying like and when I did that
video and I was talking about the flight attendant
who told me about how they bring bodies back
all the time on her, when she flies on her
particular airline, it's three or four coffins
brought back a month, and I said that's just
the flights that she's on and with her airline.
And it was all kind of people trying to act
like I was making it up or something like
what benefit do I have to making that up. Even
if you think about it, what is the benefit
of me talking about people dying in plastic
surgery, when I'm a plastic surgeon. Like
obviously that's gonna deter people from getting
plastic surgery. I'm not like I don't, I'm
not worried about financial gain when I do
these videos because these videos technically
could do the opposite of that for my business.
I don't want people to die, like don't sit
on here and try to fight me about stuff. I
just deliver information that I get to help
people like kind of try to snap out of
it and realize how certain things are brainwashing
them, so that they live. Live to be mad at
me, but be alive, that's all I care about.
It's
a lot of comments, oh they closed Dr. Cabral's
office. It wasn't Dr. Cabral, I can say
that, it wasn't him.
So, many comments, I just,
oh okay sorry I'm having a hard time with
my phone.
Alright, I'm not saying I was supposed to
go in tonight and talk about drainless tummy
tucks, but I probably I'm gonna do it tomorrow,
because it just don't feel right to do that. I'm
gonna let this day be like, go to her memory.
I'm not gonna talk about plastic surgery tonight.
Alright I guess I'm gonna go ahead and get
off. I don't see any other questions that,
just comments. So, if you haven't already,
please share the video. Just be smart, don't
be desperate. If you can't afford it, don't
get it, don't get too much surgery at once, like
just if it takes more than one surgery to
get to your goal, then that's how you need to
do it. And you know don't play Russian roulette
with your life, that's pretty much all I could
say. So, I'm gonna go ahead and sign off,
I'm Dr. Myla Bennett of Ederra Bella Plastic Surgery and
Medical Spa in Johns Creek, Georgia.
If you want to reach out to me, you can do
so via my website at www.ederrabella.com or
you can call my office during business hours. Phone
number there  is 678-325-0006. Alright, rest in
peace Alicia Renette Williams.
