Jeanne Marie Laskas Quotes

The difficulty of finding organs suitable for transplantation on man must be met.

The scar on my eye is a result of the doctor's sewing up my face. It was 450 stitches and plastic surgery.

I had to have a complete liver transplant. I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.

More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility.

This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it's like replacing a football in your stomach.

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery.

Who transplanted sustains

When on the show it is mostly reconstructions that I work on, but locally and on a day-to-day basis it is rhinoplasties. I also get a lot of people coming to me about upper eyelid lifts, too.

I had operations up until I was 18, then revision on my scars to put back my eyebrows. So I've had a lot of what is called plastic surgery. And I have huge, huge respect for what that is.

The hardest procedures are the complex nasal reconstructions. With these you have to be so careful, because the skin of the nose can be very destroyed and turns black and can fall off. It's extremely difficult and scary.

I chose a specialty in plastic and reconstructive surgery because it's very rewarding to watch someone with broken bones or bad scars return to normal.

My dad gave me one of his kidneys.

I got a piece of a dead person's ligament in my body.

Ever since I got to know how easily skin donation can save the lives of serious burns patients, I have felt strongly about the issue.

I was operated on facially so much when I was young, and I had massive amounts of stitches.

I'm not saying, "I don't condone plastic surgery." But if you do it, then do it well, make sure you come out looking like yourself. You're comfortable being put under a knife and being disemboweled? Great!

There is a risk of death associated with donating a piece of liver. It's about one in 500 for the risk of death. The risk of death of donating a kidney is about one in 3000, so this is a riskier operation than donating a kidney. The stakes are usually higher for the recipient of the transplant because unlike kidney failure, where you have a dialysis machine, in liver failure we don't have that kind of machine that allows a patient to survive until they can get a cadaver organ.

I had reconstructive pectoral surgery, I had a cervical neck fusion and a scope, and the scope was the toughest.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn't something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn't gonna let that happen.

I've had a tummy tuck - we all know that.

I got plastic surgery done on my face because my skin burnt during the shooting of one of my films.

I've had more than 200 stitches, only in the area of the eyes.

I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.

We show some more complicated cases. We show problems with fillers that were injected into the nose and the complications that caused. We show dog bites to the nose and the face and the reconstruction. There are some interesting stories, but they're more of learning lessons.