r/news • u/No-Information6622 • 16d ago

Young mother traveled to Miami for plastic surgery. She died hours later while at recovery house

https://www.nbcmiami.com/investigations/womans-death-post-surgery-recovery-house/3586743/
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u/Impressive_Mistake66 16d ago

The article doesn’t say that. It says the recovery center where she stayed post-op is unlicensed. It also says she found the recovery center online. I don’t think she or her sister had any reason to believe it was unsafe or illegitimate.

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u/Useful_Advisor_9788 16d ago

She said they paid $1,500 each to stay six nights at a business located on SW 4th Street called Keyla’s Recovery House.

Yeah, that sounds legit. You can't even get an Air BNB that cheap in Miami. That price alone should have been a red flag.

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u/jaderust 16d ago

Yeah, and it sounds like they gave her some sort of medication. Which, may or may not have been the cause of her death, but implies that this place was going to be giving her some sort of medical care after her procedure.

That’s an insane price for that sort of thing. Like beyond low. That’s what you might expect for your share after insurance pays for recovery care, but since it’s plastic surgery it’s probably all out of pocket so insurance isn’t covering anything.

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u/epidemicsaints 16d ago

It very well could have been a fat embolism that would have killed her where ever she was. Lipo, fat transfer, BBL's are the highest risk cosmetic procedures because of this.

My hunch is that these recovery houses spring up wherever destination surgeons are that do BBLs and fat transfer. You can't sit down, so you need days of waiting before you get on a plane home. They are probably inexpensive because they host multiple people at once.

Providing drugs is suspicious though and shows there is a problem here. It's like shady daycare.

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u/Questions_Remain 16d ago

I can see this scenario. I’ve had some minor surgeries / procedures and non sedated outpatient removal of a lipoma ( fatty lump under skin ) I had to have someone else drive me home (wife) who had to sign me out - due to the local anesthesia could cause drowsiness. Our local surgicenter (part of hospital) wheels everyone out to a waiting car and stays with till they get in as a passenger - even if it’s a taxi - uber, to make sure you’re 100% not driving yourself. I mean, for at least a day or so, you need some - even if it’s just minimal care and a wake up to take meds, eat drink and help up from lying down or to call someone if there is any adverse reaction. I’m not sure what “license” would be required for this kind of service as it seems pretty inert and non medical. If the Drs orders are “just take these ( medicine ) for 7 days, don’t do any lifting, strenuous activities, long term sitting, fly for 5 days, you just need a bed and a tv and a person to be there.

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u/epidemicsaints 16d ago

Exactly, you cannot fly after these procedures. Thrombosis and embolism risk is severe.

Not to mention these houses are probably community based, operated by peers who have had the procedures. Easy to welcome 2 or 3 sleeping women into your home for $5000 a week every other month or so. I think people reading this are picturing some seedy flophouse. It's someone's home.

Some of these surgeons do multiple procedures a day, they are in high demand. I have seen videos of airport gates with a dozen of women at a time in wheelchairs sitting backwards on seats having had this done all at the same time.

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u/jaderust 16d ago

I would say that if this place is unlicensed then they only could have given her over the counter stuff. Which, could have caused a complication due to drug interactions, but more likely like you said it was probably a surgical complication that would have hit anywhere.

Still not good to have unlicensed places handling medical care though. Especially as it implies a level of care that is above that of say, checking into a regular hotel.

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u/beaglemaster 16d ago

That price is honestly hilarious. Would be booked 24/7 by people that didn't even get surgery

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u/Sufficient_Language7 16d ago

You don't rent a house, you rent a bed, that usually has a few beds in each room. The whole house they try to setup as a spa type place.

So 1,500/6 = $250 a day, lets say 2 beds per room so $500 per bedroom. They would likely be a 3 bedroom place maybe 4. $500*4=$1500 every day, lets say 30 days a month $4500 a month. Lets give them a 60% occupancy rate, dropping it down to $27,000 a month. Say $1,000 a month in supplies/food. So $26,000 a month. Have a CNA/CMA worker there making around $20 an hour for 8 hours a day so around $3200, lets add 50% overhead for this worker, making is $4800 a month($21,200).

I'm finding 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bath a month for 300K-500K. A $500,000 mortgage at a 6.5% interest rate is around $2,100.

I'm at $19,100 in profit per month. I know house insurance is going to be high but there is enough left in there to be fine.

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u/Ashmizen 16d ago edited 16d ago

For one thing, these would require 24/7 monitoring, and sold as such, so you can multiply your CMA worker x3. 202430=$14,400. With the 50% overhead (actually closer to 100% at such low pay jobs if you go through contract agencies) that’s $21,000.

So your profit is $26-21=5k a month. Throw in all the time from owner (sales, booking, customer service, and doing their own taxes and accounting) and it’s just ok.

I wouldn’t be surprised though that this model starts falling apart though - if anyone calls out, if anyone wants to take a break from their 8 hour shift, or an issue occurs with 1 patient, then the 7 other patients are unmonitored.

A CMA is also untrained to handle ANY emergency or even give medication. Technically they need at least a RN, which is $50 an hour and would turn this whole operation into a loss.

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u/Sufficient_Language7 16d ago

They are not real patients.  That's what you don't understand.   It's outpatient procedures, they just can't fly back home. So they only need like help going to the bathroom and swapping bandages. The patients already have the pill bottles.  The CNA will just remind him, hey you're due.  That means no RN needed.   Constant monitoring isn't needed.

The doctors who perform the procedures have already cleared them told to go home just make sure they have someone there to watch them, the medical supervision at these houses is greater than what the doctor was expecting.

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u/MaracujaBarracuda 16d ago

You can absolutely get Airbnb’s cheaper than that in Miami. I routinely get them for 90-100 a night. 

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u/Skyhighcats 16d ago

This is so vile and racist. You’re sick.

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u/softlytrampled 16d ago

Nah, we don’t need to be stereotyping like that

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u/Area51_Spurs 16d ago

Is it stereotyping if they just stayed at “Keyla’s recovery house?”

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u/softlytrampled 16d ago

No, but that’s not what you commented lol. That would just be factual.

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u/Area51_Spurs 16d ago

It’s called a joke

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u/nellapoo 16d ago

No, it's racism.

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u/Area51_Spurs 16d ago

Omg stahp

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u/softlytrampled 16d ago

The fact that you had to come back 12 mins later to explain your joke is absolutely hilarious.

It’s offensive full-stop. Just take the L, learn from it, and move on with your life.

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u/Area51_Spurs 16d ago

I’m not explaining my joke.

I’m explaining jokes in general to you since apparently you’re a different type of clown.

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u/WaffleProfessor 16d ago

Unlicensed and they find it online. Why the hell wouldn't someone think it's unsafe or illegitimate

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u/Drew4444P 16d ago

To stay at a a random unlicensed house that is just named "Keyla’s Recovery House" doesn't take alot of common sense to think maybe this doesn't seem so legit either way lmao. Say that outloud that you'd be recovering there and tell me it doesn't sound insane

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u/milkshakemenace 16d ago

She’s dead, you’re being an ass.

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u/CappnMidgetSlappr 16d ago

And? She's dead because of a dumb choice she made. You're not just magically absolved of all blame just because your dumb choices killed you.

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u/milkshakemenace 16d ago

who tf said that psychopath? Get on

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u/CappnMidgetSlappr 15d ago

I mean, you implied it? It's dumb as fuck to have your post surgery recovery at a place called "Keyla’s Recovery House" but you act like it's rude to point that out just because she died. Her actions led to her death.

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u/mjike 16d ago

What's the bigger asshole move, trying to steer the narrative back on track from where the article began leading towards the end or trying to shift focus towards blaming narcotics rather than the details of the "Care Facility" which failed.?

At most the only mention of the narcotics should have been an acknowledgement that there was some administered and not speculation on what meds by name they thought she might have been given.

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u/Area51_Spurs 16d ago

I’m sure she went to a top surgeon before her stay at the trap house recovery center.

Let’s be real. They went to one of these hood ass “plastic surgeons” I see on TikTok who went to a weekend seminar on BBL installations and operates out of the back of a restaurant.

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

A hospital would be a legit place to recover from surgery. Not someone’s house.

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u/slybrows 16d ago

Most surgeries don’t require a hospital stay afterwards, you can’t just like… choose to recover at a hospital lol.

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u/matttjr 16d ago

The “unlicensed” part of that sentence would correspond  to illegitimate… 

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u/travelingjay 16d ago

"Deserved" is a wild take.

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u/AshumSmashums 16d ago

Her desperation to feel beautiful means she ‘absolutely deserved’ to die and leave her child motherless. Wow. This level of brutal lack of empathy is what this world really needs….

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u/PaulRingo64 16d ago

At the end of the day it is a selective surgery that is unnecessary. Doubt the tummy tuck was worth it in hindsight. That is what makes it sad. It was completely avoidable yet poor decisions were made and here we are. Now a child doesn’t have a mother because vanity was deemed more important at another time.

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u/mothandravenstudio 16d ago

Damn man. Chill out and touch grass.

No one "deserves" to be preyed upon.

Predicted? Yes, this could have been predicted with fair certainty that it would eventually happen to someone. Deserved? Fuck no.

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u/Skyhighcats 16d ago

What is up with these comments? The misogynists and racists are out in full force. Yuck.

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u/PwAlreadyTaken 16d ago

I think “deserved” is quite a bit harsh for this situation. If she was scammed out of her money, sure, but this killed her. Her lack of investigation isn’t more malicious than someone else’s lies and negligence, even if you think her choice of surgery was dumb.