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High School Cheerleader Dies of Apparent Breast Surgery Complications, Friends Say
Fox News ^ | 3/25/2008 | Fox News

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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KEYWORDS: breasts; cheerleader; dumbrichkids; health; high; school; teens
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To: MissEdie; All

There’s a slideshow of the girl at this link:

http://www.wpbf.com/news/15694471/detail.html


41 posted on 03/25/2008 8:48:39 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: AxelPaulsenJr

The overly sensitive crowd can bite me. And trust me, many a short and chortle will occur when reading it, but the vast majority won’t have it in them to admit it.


42 posted on 03/25/2008 8:48:44 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: philsfan24
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.

I hope they handed out big candles.
43 posted on 03/25/2008 8:48:45 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: Piquaboy

Why in the world would a young girl do something like that? Her parents must have really been great for her to have low self esteem.”

I cannot blame parents across the board on this one.

There are VERY cruel kids in high school and middle school these days.
We are responsible for that, IMO, because we have given these kids faaaarr too much in the material items they get excited about. Madison Avenue has done an outstanding job on our kids. They think they have to have EVERYTHING that is on the shelves for sale.
The kids in school make fun of someone who doesn’t have the latest fad clothing or the I-pods, etc. I know it is very hard to reject all these pleas from the kids, but I believe it starts at a very young age when you have to shape their reality about what is important and what is just a fad that is very expensive. It is particularly hard for parents who don’t want their daughters dressing like little tramps. Finding jeans that actually come up to the waist often means buying them at the western store. the idols they have are edgy at best.
One of my best stories about a frieis that the daughter had every CD of music as soon as it hit the shelves. She could sing perfectly every word of every song. This same kid said she couldn’t remember dates and other kinds of “history stuff”. I pointed out to her that she had an excellent memory—she could remember songs that were 5 years old. She didn’t like my comment, but Mom looked at me like she had had an eye-opening idea. This kid could have gone to college, but she bailed out of school as soon as she had enough credits, and will be wasting most of her life, I predict. Mom was wealthy enough to give the kids everything they asked for. New I-pod for btdidn’t last a week- he left it on a bench when going skiing. Why he needed the I-pod to ski, I don’t understand.


44 posted on 03/25/2008 8:48:48 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Phantom Lord

I know one place you ought to inject them.


45 posted on 03/25/2008 8:48:58 AM PDT by texas_mrs
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To: Pablo64

Yes they could, by not paying for it. How many 18 years olds have that kind of money?


46 posted on 03/25/2008 8:49:08 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Emmett McCarthy

Probably the anaesthetic was given by a nurse anaesthetist. Many people choose a nurse over an M.D. for elective surgery that is not paid for by insurance, because it costs less. There is no law that requires outpatient surgery centers to use M.D.s, though many of the better ones do. People do not realize that all anaesthetics are poisons and that nurses are not trained to identify or handle unusual reactions to them. ALWAYS insist on an anaesthesiologist when you have surgery of any kind!!


47 posted on 03/25/2008 8:49:21 AM PDT by Dems_R_Losers (Waiting for 2012 to vote for an actual Republican)
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To: Phantom Lord

That’s what I was thinking too—I was just responding to another poster that said it could have been for a reduction.


48 posted on 03/25/2008 8:49:38 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Pablo64

Very sad. I guess if she was 18 there wasn’t much her parents could do legally to stop her.”

Where did an 18 y/o high school student get the money for this surgery??????


49 posted on 03/25/2008 8:50:16 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: stainlessbanner
Oh, yes.

Right.

Upon her 18th birthday, she instantly became completely responsible in all possible ways for every decision she made. Everything her parents taught her (for good or ill) became instantly irrelevant. She was a whole new creation, tabula rasa.

So ... her lethally stupid decisions were completely her own damn fault.

Paging Prof. Darwin ... Prof. Darwin, please pick up the black discourtesy phone.

50 posted on 03/25/2008 8:51:32 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Phantom Lord

It was funny,but keep something in mind,this girls parents or other relatives could be Freepers.Also,Free Republic is often linked in top searches on search engines.We should ALL think about that before we make a post.


51 posted on 03/25/2008 8:51:54 AM PDT by quack
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To: ridesthemiles
Where did an 18 y/o high school student get the money for this surgery??????

To continue digging the hole I am in...

Elliot Spitzer?

52 posted on 03/25/2008 8:52:35 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Phantom Lord

I thought it was funny.


53 posted on 03/25/2008 8:52:42 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: quack

In my defense, this is not the first time there has been threads about a young girl dying from getting a boob job. And to be honest, this is a very tame one in its comments. Usually the parents are the target of direct fire and heavy insults.


54 posted on 03/25/2008 8:54:44 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Dems_R_Losers
People do not realize that all anaesthetics (sic) are poisons and that nurses are not trained to identify or handle unusual reactions to them.

You should stick to writing about what you know...'cause this sure ain't it.

55 posted on 03/25/2008 8:54:44 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: Phantom Lord

hehe


56 posted on 03/25/2008 8:54:57 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: Phantom Lord
Seems she wanted to be a D student.

You are taking a lot of heat for this statement, but I for one agree with you. I have a hard time getting upset when people suffer (or die) because of their own ignorance and vanity. Although tragic, this girls's death was preventable by her and her parents, yet they decided to have the elective surgery so she could have bigger boobs. I am sure they recieved the standard 'risks involved with any surgical procedure' speech. They weighed the risk vs. rewards and made a decision. Now all involved must live (no pun intended) with the consequences.

At the root of this is the fact that this was an unnecessary surgery that she chose to undergo. If this was heart transplant or some other life saving procedure, I might be upset. I cannot be forlorn because a person dies getting a boob job. But that's just me.

57 posted on 03/25/2008 8:55:39 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: philsfan24
She was just a happy 18-year-old girl.<

She couldn't have been too happy if she was willing to go under the knife for bigger boobs.

58 posted on 03/25/2008 8:56:29 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Piquaboy

Peer-Pressure is a mo-fo at that age.

Could also have been a graduation present from mom and dad.

In any case, a real-life example of vanity as one of the seven deadly sins.

So tragic to see a promising young life ended in such a pointless manner. Breast augmentation was the last thing this girl needed to be successful.


59 posted on 03/25/2008 8:56:42 AM PDT by rock_lobsta (Client #10)
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To: Phantom Lord

If the girl had been the daughter of a prominent democrat, you probably would have gotten different responses.


60 posted on 03/25/2008 8:56:45 AM PDT by stuartcr (Election year.....Who we gonna hate, in '08?)
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