Pia Marshall didn’t think twice: if her 69-year-old mother Marion was willing to get a facelift in South Korea, she would board the plane too.
Marion’s deep-plane surgery came first. One day later, it was Pia’s turn. Pia, 40, is a content creator from Sunshine Coast, Australia. They thought they would be recovery buddies, supporting each other through bruising and swelling. But the script was completely reversed: while Marion took everything “in stride”, Pia described her first day as “brutal”, with migraines that wouldn’t let up.
Eight weeks later, the mother was practically recovered. Pia, by contrast, was still dealing with numbness, swelling, and extreme sensitivity behind her ears. “An unexpected outcome”, she called it herself, still unable to understand how the 69-year-old had won the recovery race.
