A mother of two had a facelift after a 100-pound weight reduction left her with “wrinkly” skin, but she is now dealing with eyes that won’t close and painful scars from a clinic she now refers to as a “butcher’s shop.”

Joanne Law initially traveled to Turkey in February 2023 for gastric sleeve surgery, which she reported was a success, allowing her to shed around 100 pounds.

Medical tourism in Turkey is flourishing, with individuals flying there for plastic surgery, hair implants, and other procedures at lower costs than in Europe or the United States. So Law, 56, scheduled a return trip to the same clinic where she had her gastric sleeve surgery for a face, neck, and eyelid lift, as well as fat grafts, claiming that the weight reduction had left her “wrinkly.” Law spent around $6,500 for the operations; the American Society of Plastic Surgeons estimates that a facelift alone may cost $11,000.

Law, on this occasion, said the clinic’s operating area was like something out of a “horror movie,” according to The Daily Mail.

The treatment was administered in a basement located at the rear of the facility. Law, hailing from Manchester, England, recalls the horrific experience. “There was an old-style bed screen separation. Someone was having surgery on the other side.”

After the operation, she claims, “There was no aftercare” and that recuperation was “horrendous.”

“I’m really deflated because my sleeve was such a success I thought I was going to look like something straight out of a Snapchat filter,” Law confesses. Instead, she claims her eyelids do not fully close, and she has severe scars behind her ears.

“When it’s windy out, I just can’t see; my eyes fill with tears,” Law recalls. “My eyes are so dry that they need to tear up to stay protected from the environment. When I am fatigued, the bottom of my eyelid droops. “You can see one of my eyeballs better than the other.”

She describes the scars as “still painful” and “like a five-year-old’s done it.”

“One side of my scars is different from the other, as if two different people were stitching me up for quickness.”

The clinic informed her the scarring was typical and suggested she wait 12 months for them to heal; however, she claims they have ceased responding to her emails.

“The fat transplant made me look like a cartoon figure; it transformed my appearance. It just made my look flat and odd,” adds Law, who refuses to leave the house without makeup on. “I don’t like leaving the house.”

She claims she’s telling her experience to warn others about the allure of inexpensive offshore operations, stating, “I’ve been so frustrated; I want to scream at other girls and say, Don’t do it.”

“That hospital is a butcher’s shop.”