Rosalyn Strop is the daughter of Pedro Strop.
She was with her family in the Dominican Republic. Rosalyn had not yet joined her dad in Chicago when she was playing around on a table in their house. Rosalyn was climbing on the marble top table and it ended up slipping and crushing her facial bone.
The muscle on her forehead went straight down to the bone, the nearby hospital in the Dominican Republic was not a good one but she needed to have stitches so they sowed her up (butchered her stitches) and immediately got on a plane to go see Dr. Ciminello. That’s when they called Dr. Ciminello personally and went to meet him.
Before going to the office, they did their research, looked at his website and reviews, and felt more comfortable. They were much more at ease when they met Dr. Ciminello at the office.
His demeanor and bedside manner helped to provide some relief to the situation. He went out of his way to make sure they were taken care of, so much so that he drove them from the office to the hospital, to get CT scans and to the operating room. He took care of Rosalyn and made sure everything went smoothly.
She ended up requiring 2 surgeries. The first was the actual reconstruction and the 2nd was the scar revision.
Her parents were a little nervous that her face was going to be sunk in. Also, since she’s a girl they always felt like the scarring was very important to them. The scars were really bad due to the initial stitches Rosalyn received in the Dominican Republic, but Dr. Ciminello fixed the scars and her facial injury – you can’t even tell anything happened! It was a pretty ugly accident and not something that many 2-year-olds can endure.