DALLAS — Rolanda Hutton will never walk again.
"It's very traumatic," she said. "You never think about not being able to walk."
She ended up in a wheelchair after she had a Brazilian Butt Lift at the Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute.
"When I first woke up they were asking me to move and I couldn't feel my legs," Hutton said.
WFAA first told her story back in November 2017.
Then she sued the doctor who performed the surgery.
But now, she and her lawyer have amended the lawsuit to include other doctors who perform surgeries at The Institute and the Cloisters, which is a post operation hotel run by the doctors who do the surgeries. They send patients there for recovery.
"Patients are being sent to this so called hotel which is really a skilled nursing facility that is not licensed and not regulated by the state,” said Les Weisbord, Hutton's attorney.
Hutton said she spent two days at the Cloisters and said the staff there should have sent her to a hospital the moment she told them she could not feel her legs.
"After the second day, I was like, 'something is wrong. I need to go to the hospital because I still can't move my legs and it's been two days,'” Hutton said.
Her lawyer said Hutton isn't the only one who had suffered severe consequences. He claimed that in 2009 a woman died after a facelift while at the Cloister.
"This place needs to be regulated or shut down or you are going to see more people that have been hurt," Weisbord said.
The Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute provided the following statement to WFAA in the days after this story aired:
"Founded in 1992, our board-certified surgeons and professional staff are dedicated to providing the highest quality care, as well as research to advance patient safety.
"Our legal counsel and medical experts are prepared to show the allegations in this lawsuit are without merit. DPSI looks forward to the presentation of all of the evidence in a court of law, which is the proper forum to address these issues."
As for Hutton, she wants her story to serve as a warning to others of what can happen.