Usher's wife checks out of Brazil hospital

By CAROLINA ESCALERA, Associated Press Writer Carolina Escalera, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 13 mins ago

SAO PAULO, Brazil – The wife of R&B singer Usher was released from a Sao Paulo hospital after spending 11 days recovering from a cardiac arrest she suffered shortly before undergoing plastic surgery.

A spokeswoman for the Sirio-Libanes Hospital said Wednesday that Tameka Raymond left the facility Monday night but declined to provide any details on Raymond's treatment at the family's request. The spokewoman spoke on condition of anonymity per hospital policy.

Representatives for Usher had no immediate comment.

Ellen Dastry, a spokeswoman for the doctor who was to perform the plastic surgery, said last week that Raymond suffered a cardiac arrest while being anesthetized ahead of a "simple liposuction" at Sao Paulo's Sao Rafael Hospital.

Raymond was revived in less than a minute with heart massage, and was placed in an induced coma before being taken to the intensive-care unit, said Dastry, spokeswoman for plastic surgeon Silvio Sterman.

She was then transferred to the posh and better-equipped Sirio-Libanes Hospital to recover.

Usher was supposed to perform at music mogul Clive Davis' pre-Grammy party, but backed out to come to Brazil to be with his wife.

The 30-year-old R&B star and his wife were married in August 2007. They have two young sons, 2-year-old Usher Raymond V and 2-month-old Naveid Ely Raymond.

"Heart massage"!!!! She's lucky to be alive.
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Why the hell did she have to all the way to Brazil for lipo?

SCNDLS said:

wow



how old are these people now?

Cuddles said:

I think Usher's wife is 37.

Timmy84 said:

Kinda ironical that in her quest for a flatter stomach, she's now gonna have a huge scar down the middle of her chest.

SCNDLS said:

question:- how could they cut into her, massage her heart, and revive her in less than 1 minute?

Evvy said:

I'm taking all this with a grain of salt until I hear from either of them. You KNOW they'll be on the cover of Essence with the kids talking about her near death experience.

Ifsixwuz9 said:

I was wondering about that myself. Maybe she did it for privacy.

I think it was too soon for her to be having a major surgery. Wasn't her last child born in October or November? That is too soon to be having a tummy tuck/lipo or whatever she was having.

It doesn't make sense to me for her to travel to Brazil for the operation when she had some of the best doctors in LA. Besides, they had to fly a plastic surgeon from Cedar Sinai in LA to help with the complications.

I wish her the best and am glad she's ok...especially for the children. No child deserves to lose their mother growing up.

daPrettyman said:

We dissected this in the other thread already. Brazil has some of THE best plastic surgeons in the WORLD. They are renowned for that shit. Plus she could do it under the radar vs. going to LA with photogs jumping outta bushes.

Also, the baby JUST turned two months this week. She shoulda waited several more months. And it was a neurosurgeon that he took not a plastic surgeon.
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SCNDLS said:

I guess I missed the thread (or gave up on it).

I understand her wanting to keep it quiet, but she definitely should have waited a year or so to do any surgery.

daPrettyman said:

No doubt.

Evvy said:

I'm hoping that it was closed heart massage which is more of applying pressure to the sternum. As opposed to open heart massage which is the actual physical massaging of the heart itself through an opening in the chest.

Is it wrong if I don't feel bad for her?

323Ci said:

All that sounds EXTRA serious.

SCNDLS said:

Well the first one is really what it says like a chest massage no incisions or anything like that, the second one, "open heart massage" is just ALL bad even if they save you, they have to get into the chest cavity which is obviously no good! So i'm really hoping they didn't have to do that to her!

scriptgirl said:

Maybe not bad but feel sad for her....she let simple things in life get pushed to the back of her mind and took a risk that was very silly and self harming ...the pressure of the western world to be something your not...and not to be thankful for what you got...

I do feel alot of US stars should travel more ... move country ...get a better idea what's going on around the world and not sit in the bubble..