Posted on 03/25/2008 8:26:26 AM PDT by philsfan24
She was captain of her high school cheerleading squad, a nearly straight-A student and a soon-to-be pre-med student at the University of Florida.
But now, 18-year-old Stephanie Kuleba is dead, and her friends and family are pointing to breast augmentation surgery as the cause, The Palm Beach Post reported.
"She was a role model for a lot of people," her friend Vicky Goldring, 16, told the paper. "She was incredibly smart. She wanted to help people. She was just a happy 18-year-old girl."
Kuleba died Saturday of what friends believe were complications from the plastic surgery she had the previous night, though no official cause of death has yet been released, the Post reported.
A friend speaking on behalf of her grieving family told the newspaper that Kuleba had an extreme reaction to the anesthesia.
"The surgery itself was very personal," Perlman told the paper. "She passed away from complications during surgery.
Paramedics were summoned to the teen's aid at the Boca Raton outpatient surgery unit where she'd had the procedure, and they rushed her to Delray Medical Center. She died there on Saturday.
The West Boca High School senior, whom friends described as "perfect" and full of promise and possibilities, was mourned by classmates at a candlelight vigil at the school Sunday night. More than 400 people attended.
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lmao..I love your post & I think its true. I think women are better at hiding their disappointment too.
Character, brains, and charm are not soo easily measured. ;-)
Then you missed the request by the Admins to report abuse after the BOR hoopla.
And of course that’s fine if you don’t want to do it, but it is not correct to state that crass posts are the norm here. They are not. The FReepers try to self police. Unlike other sites.
Sure, and when penis-enlargement surgery becomes as safe, effective, routine and affordable as breast augmentation, men will be lining up around the block for it.
Until then
we wimmens is SOL ;)
Well, in all fairness, your gals’ disappointment makes a lot more sense when we just don’t have the right sized-tool to get the job done. Waddayagonnado?
And clearly not important to some posters ;)
Well that would just about cover it, sure. Although in all honesty, there aren’t like a zillion other options for buckets of lightly steamed oysters and pitchers of beer up here in Chicago, months with Rs in them or no....
I assume that’s her in the center?
sigh How much more did she “need”?
I’m not familiar with the BOR hoopla or other sites, but I’ve seen, and continue to see, many crass posts here on FR.
For guys,
it’s like driving to Paris from Berlin-— in a BMW or a Yugo. Either way, you know you’re going to get there. Maybe just not in the style you’d like.
For women though, it’s like thinking you’re going on a Cruise to the Rio in a luxury liner-— and being presented with a rowboat. Your odds of getting there at all are doubtful.
lmao....I honestly don’t recall thats all I am saying & sticking with that.
We have 2 teenage daughters, both saved, both beautiful, both tall and thin and not particularly busty. We have tried to teach them that the kind of guy that drools over large breasts is probably not worth dating anyway - so far I think they get it.
Any parent who would give a girl a boob job as a grad present is sick, possibly perverted (not saying that is the case with this girl, but I know it is pretty common).
Went to the link and viewed the girls pics - she was quite pretty and had no need of larger breasts - only of better guidance.
Even routine elective surgeries carry some risk, which teens and adults alike should be aware of and consider before going under the knife. Maybe this death can at least spur other people to consider the potential consequences of cosmetic procedures.
So sad that she had to die from lack of self-esteem.
It's a sad thing for any old geezer to die, say nothing of seeing some parents having to bury an 18-yo, and one who must have been popular as well as intelligent to boot.My son had surgery in HS which was elective but intended to restore some lost hand function. He came out fine, tho the hoped for result was not achieved. But he was worried about going under the knife, and the surgeon quantified the risk for him thusly: "You have a better chance of coming through the surgery than you do of surviving the 40-minute drive to the hospital before it."
So I have a bit of a problem with the judgmentalism which is implied in some of the comments. Yes, it's a shame that an operation which can certainly be called frivolous caused a death. But do we actually want to prevent people from hang gliding, for example? My bet would be that, prospectively, you would stand worse odds of surviving a hang glide than a breast surgery.
Well, there’s certainly no lack here for people that know what’s better for others.
Who needs surgery. Enzyte worked for Bob.
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