Couple of people in my family have actually gotten plastic surgery done and they liked their plastic surgeon but I feel comfortable going to a female because she knows how the female body works, she knows what goes on with pregnancy, she knows how to fix it. I think female and male doctors have different points and different perspectives on a female’s body. I mean the moment I walked in I had my two kids and my husband with me and Judy actually came around and shook my hand and made me feel like I was really welcome like a patient that they’ve known for years when I really just walked in the door for the first time. So she just has a way with patients and a way with people that you can tell that she totally cares about you and your recovery process and your process of just going through being a mom and she knows why your body’s affected and how she wants to fix it. I just felt like I was really well prepared for the surgery with all of the staff, they all answered all of my questions. Judie the front office is great. Rosie is amazing, and Dr. McCormack herself is great. My mom cannot believe the results, my husband cannot believe the results. It’s just amazing what she took off and it’s just amazing how I look now. You know you can still be a hot mom when you have kids, so it’s just been really really great.
I’m the mother of two beautiful young girls and having them has been the highlight of my life. It’s all I ever wanted was to have beautiful babies. But after the kids I didn’t like the effects on my body. I worked for two years with a personal trainer, I lost the 55 pounds I had put on with my youngest daughter, but some things about my body hard work exercise and dieting just weren’t going to fix. And I went back and forth because as a mom we live for our children and I was worried about spending the money on myself and the recovery period away from my kids because I couldn’t be home for the day or so afterwards. But one of my friends said to me something that stuck with me, she’s also a mother and she said if you can’t be proud of yourself how can you raise daughters who love themselves? I ended up here with Dr. McCormack because I appreciated that she was a woman and a mother and understood my issues. Her qualifications were impeccable, I was very impressed with both her education and the quality that they talked about that she was a resident, she was head resident and the different awards she’d won certainly attracted me. It was sort of like getting a makeover for the day. My husband and I came in together and got to try all sorts of different things out. She talked about what I would look like when we were finished and I left so excited I scheduled my surgery that day. And now when I look in the mirror I’m just proud, I love to go shopping, I feel proud of myself when I walk down the street in a way I haven’t since I was about 18 years old. It’s important to have a good self aspect and this has allowed me to do so.
I wasn’t really looking for any plastic surgery at this point in my life but I realized after having three children I’d been noticing how my body’s been changing, not that I’m necessarily very old but I’ve had children and I’m just starting to notice some changes as I’ve come out of the pregnancy experience. So I’ve always been kind of curious about what’s available and out there. But then I actually had an opportunity to meet Dr. McCormack. Then I started doing some research about her and learning about her experience and I realized that plastic surgery was right for me at this stage in my life. That I wasn’t too young for it and I didn’t really want major changes but that she could make significant small changes, the changes that make a significant difference in I think how I look and how I feel about myself. She had incredible qualifications and I also really like that she was a mom like me and that she really understood that I didn’t want anything drastic. She was really very informative, very thorough about explaining things, and just I think really good at listening to what I really wanted as opposed to what she thought I needed. So it felt like a very safe environment. If you’re at all considering even just thinking about the possibility of any sort of plastic surgery procedure I would definitely come and talk with Dr. McCormack because I think she can really help you understand what it is about your body that you’re unhappy with and what your options are. So I think it’s worth getting the information and coming and seeing for yourself that she’s somebody that you can really trust and feel safe with.
A large part of my practice is the mommy makeover population. I see a lot of patients who have lost all of their baby weight but still have problem areas that won’t go away with diet and exercise alone. So most commonly those areas would be the breast and the abdomen and sometimes the areas around the hips. As a woman and as a mother I completely understand the changes that a woman’s body goes through following pregnancy and breast feeding. Even though most mothers can find time to exercise and diet and take care of themselves there are certain parts of the body that aren’t amenable to being fixed without surgical intervention. For example, the abdominal muscles become stretched apart. Sometimes that needs to be surgically tightened. Some of the excess skin on the abdomen needs to be surgically removed. Even if you lose more weight the skin will only sag because it just isn’t filled out anymore. As a board-certified plastic surgeon of course safety is always my primary concern and these are elective procedures so to me it’s important to stage these procedures and not spend too much time on the operating table at once to increase their risk factors.
Abdominoplasties or tummy tucks are one of my favorite procedures mostly because there’s such an immediate gratification. It’s not like liposuction where you have to wait for the swelling to go down for several weeks. Patients come in and immediately they’re clothes fit differently, they can see an immediate result. Often this is a part of a woman’s body that hasn’t gotten better with exercise, maybe because the muscles have been stretched or they have a lot of stretch marks on the lower part of the abdomen or the skin has been stretched out and all the sit-ups in the world aren’t helping and that’s where I come in and I can tighten those muscles and take away that extra skin and hopefully a lot of those stretch marks and they can see an immediate result when they come in for their first visit. That’s very rewarding.