As we mentioned earlier this week,, Usher‘s exwife, Tameka Raymond, suffered cardiac arrest as she was being anesthetized for liposuction surgery in Brazil this past weekend. And, surprisingly, the Brazilian doctors have been willing to talk about the unfortunate event to the media!
According to Ellen Dasptry, a rep for Sao Paulo plastic surgeon Dr. Silvio Sterman, the 38-year-old Tameka flew to South America to have lipo done on her stomach. Just TWO months after giving birth to the Usher’s son.
CRAZY! Doesn’t that seem a bit TOO soon anyway?
Dasptry said, “Tameka Raymond came here on Friday to do a liposuction. Shortly after she went under [general] anesthesia, she suffered a cardiac arrest.” She added that Tameka never received the surgery.
After the cardiac arrest she was immediately revived and placed in an induced coma. “When an attack like this happens, the doctors put the patient to sleep… and make sure that everything is okay and that there has not been any damage,” says the doc. “This is the protocol every time and this is what was done.”
Tameka was later transferred to one of Brazil’s larger hospitals and after a week of recovery “is doing very well. In plastic surgery all over the world, there is no rule that says a woman can’t have plastic surgery performed two months after childbirth.”
Better to be safe and wait!
[Image via WENN.]