A husband says a Brazilian butt lift meant to enhance his wife’s figure left her fighting for her life, and now he is suing the doctor and the medical spa where the surgery was performed. 7’s Heather Walker investigates.

Jorge loved his wife, Daidys, just the way she was. But she wanted a Brazilian butt lift.

Jorge Fernandez: “I say, ‘If you like it, it’s no problem.'”

But it ended up being a very big problem, changing Jorge and Daidys’ life forever.

Daidys’ surgery was supposed to be an outpatient procedure, but about a month after the operation, she was hospitalized with a pulmonary embolism, blocking blood flow from her heart into her lungs.

Doctors told Jorge she wouldn’t survive.

Jorge Fernandez: “She was my first, like my first love.”

Today she is alive, but the 50-year-old is

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