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After doing some research about the gastric sleeve I checked into having the surgery in Mexico as the cost out of pocket here in Iowa would have been about $30,000. I knew that I could not afford that. I had live in California up until about 5 years ago and I still have a brother that lives in Vallejo. He told me about a friend of his who had been to Tijuana and had the gastric sleeve surgery and was doing great, was having no problems and was very happy with the service that she received. i spoke to her several times on the phone and decided to contact Alighterme regarding the possibility of surgery. When I emailed them I received a response from Linda Preciado. She sent me the information on the surgery and I went though all of the information. Lori from California who had the surgery had a different doctor and when I asked about having the surgery with him he was booked at the dates that I was looking at. She told me about Dr Garcia and I looked at his references on the internet site. I have worked in the medical field for over 35 years so I have medical knowledge which sometimes can be dangerous but everything I read about Dr Garcia and Hospital Mi seemed to impress me. After thinking about it for a couple of days I decided to go ahead with the surgery and contacted Linda and she set it up. I purchased my plane ticket for San Diego and began to make plans.

2 years ago I weighed over 350 pounds. I live in Iowa so I went to talk to one of the surgeons here about weight loss surgery. They suggested that I have a lapband so after getting approval from my insurance I had the lapband surgery. I had some success and lost about 85 pounds. I finally stopped losing weight about a year ago and my weight remained the same for a year. I had reached my maximum water fill for the lapband. However this still left me with another 90-100 pounds to lose. When I went back to my surgeon here in Iowa he told me that with the amount of weight that I had to lose initially that I should have had the gastric sleeve.....nice time to tell me after I had the lapband surgery. After checking with my insurance I found that they would not pay for the gastric sleeve surgery and to have the lapband removed. This got me looking at other options as I was still having some health issues as I was still over weight.