(July 31) -- Striving for the perfect body may have cost one woman in
California her life.
Mayra Lissette Contreras, 22, died after receiving injections of
silicone to the buttocks, CBS reports. Autopsy results are still
pending, but she is thought to have died from respiratory problems after
the operation.
"Stories like this are all too common," cosmetic surgeon Michael Kane
told CBS. "I don't know any licensed professional who would inject large
amounts of silicone into the body."
When silicone is used for breast implants, it is medical-grade and
placed in the body in a capsule.
Underground cosmetic surgeons are not always so careful, using
industrial silicone and injecting large quantities of the substance,
rather than implanting it.
Silicone injected into the body can have serious medical consequences.
These range from heavy scarring to death from breathing problems – as
appears to be what happened in Contreras's case.
"It's easy for an injector to hit a vein, the silicon hits the
bloodstream and goes to the lungs," Colin Stewart, a columnist for The
Orange County Register, told CNN.
Police are now hunting for the two sisters, Alejandra Viveros and
Guadalupe Viveros, who are believed to have performed the operation.
The two women were taken into custody on June 21 for practicing medicine
without a license, according to The Los Angeles Times. Authorities held
the sisters on bail of $20,000, then released them.
The women have gone on the run and may have fled to Mexico.
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Darwin Award candidate. Of course the illegals were released on bond.
They need to go to work at their brain surgery clinic.
What makes you think they were illegal?
The heading.
Lizard brain logic = they have a hispanic last name and "may have fled
to Mexico" so obviously they must have been in the US illegally.
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Barb
Never mind that they killed a 22 year old woman, right? Gotta protect
those poor downtrodden hispanics who are living in America illegally,
soaking up your Social Security benefits, and driving healthcare costs
through the roof.
They were doing none of those things. They were not living in the
United States illegally. They were visiting it on valid passports.
They were not collecting Social Security. They were getting money for
unlicensed medicine. They were not driving healthcare costs up. They
were offering people cheap, low quality cosmetic surgery. And since
crimes only matter to people like you when they are committed by
illegal aliens...
Oh wait. When you say "illegal aliens" you don't really mean "people
in the United States illegally" right? You mean something else.
What I'm protecting is common decency by objecting to the scapegoating
of everyone with a hispanic last name.
> soaking up your Social Security benefits,
Illegal immigrants don't collect Social Security.
> and driving healthcare costs
> through the roof.
Everyone in this country is entitled to emergency care at the emergency
room.
Do you want to reduce the costs of illegal immigration? Then demand that
your representatives pass legislation to shut off the jobs. Don't
scapegoat Mexicans.
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Barb