I ignored everyone's warnings and had a boob job in Turkey. The surgery nearly killed me and I've lost half my left nipple to necrosis. These are the mistakes I made and the signs I missed
It was a heartbreaking scene and all the more painful for Chloe to recall, given she was a trained nurse and the reason she was in this life-threatening state, fighting a deadly infection, was not an accident or an emergency, but 'pure vanity'.
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