jennifer suonvieri

Good for you :-) you made a great choice going with Dr. Illan! Best wishes to you!

Also please check out Dr.Illan he has a kick butt team and is a great surgeon!

Hi there! I was sleeved this past June in tj by dr Kelly. When your coming back and forth across the border your in a company van and cecey his wife/nurse/driver has some sort of medical pass. Several of us only had birth certificate and license and one gal only license. Nobody batted an eye, it was very easy and uneventful. But... That was with dr Kelly's crew. I imagine the other prominent surgeons operate the same way? Anyways, I wish you a safe trip and speedy recovery!!!

I left kids behind also. Mine are 19, 15, 12, 10, 8, and 6. I know how you feeling. I just want you to know when they wheel you out of your room and bring you into that operating room you will be terrified ( I dong care who your surgeon is) all I could think is " what the hell am I doing? " then I prayed!!! My sister in law (who has also done this) went through the same thing at that moment. So when your there being wheeled down just know that being scared is normal. It's not your conscience telling you something bad is gonbz happen. And I don't think you'll have any trouble with your aftercare. :-)

Ooops! Sorry Kathy! I spelled your name wrong.

Hi Cathy! Welcome to your journey! I hope it is as pleasant as mines been! There's lots of helpful people on this forum take full advantage. No question is a dumb question. Here's to you!!!

I figured if their was a non emergency complication that I would just go back to Dr. Kelly. (I'm not sure if people do that). But if it were a cant wait has to be taken care of right now type of thing? Yeah I've worried about that too. Try not to let it worry you too much though, my family has lived without health insurance for almost 8 years we have 6 kids 3 of which r rambuctous boys and my husband is a logger! and worrying will drive you nuts!!! Somehow things work out. Also we've never had to use this but check with your hosp. Because some facilities are allowed to drastically eliminate large amounts of money off people's bills once per year.this might be something that could help you in a situation such as your talking about...I wish you well...

That's exactly what's being said, nobody is putting blame on anyone, the only point Sunny is trying to make is that Omar was busy doing what he does, what he loves to do and that is seeing to it that everyone is comfortable and happy. We all had a great time, it was fun getting to know family members of other patients. Omar is great and if he doesn't get back to someone as quick ad usual it's because he's taking good care of someone else at the moment.

I just want to add when they say walk they mean walk!! Mine wouldn't leave untill I started 15 min walks that if I went any faster I would be jogging. If you haven't tried this I hope it helps. Good luck to you that gas is ugly.

I'm so happy I stumbled across this! My left incision also has a little bump under it not as big though. My healing looks good no redness, no weeping, no pain, no fever, sounds like its normal! Thanks everyone!!!

Hey sonny! U bring up a great point, I brought Omar the rice gift, now it doesn't seem like enough!! This man is amazing get this- he asked how my kids liked the gifts I brought home since of course he was there helping me pick them out and bargaining for me. I took them home very rugged authentic hand made toys ya know something you cant get at Walmart. I explained why they were special from Mexico, that people are very poor, where I bought them, ect. My kids love the toys, I think because they are so very different from the ones they have. Anyways my poing is the kids asked of they could give some of their toys to kids in Mexico. I talked with Omar and he said I can mail them to him and he will get them to this orphanage full of children with HIV/aids. I guess the hosp has some special connection with helping this orphanage. This man never stops helping. My family just loves him. And my kids feel so special because he said he would help them out! Now theyre filling up boxes for kids in need instead of asking for things they don't need.

Getting sleeved by Dr. Kelly on June 27th!! I'm a little scared and hoping to contact others who will be there the same time as me. I'm not exactly alone, my 19 year old daughter is coming with me. We haven't traveled much and are pretty sheltered where we are from. Although we are excited to spend some time together it's scary not knowing anybody!!! We will be arriving June 27 and leaving July 2.

If the other half of your face matches the half I can see you look very pretty to me. Oh! That rhymed! You can only get to know people to a certain degree using technology. Ya know when you meet people in person? And you get a feeling or vibe so to speak. I think physical human contact is important for really getting to know someone, to really bond. Otherwise that person is a voice and an idea of a person. My point is make friends in person so people can FEEL who you are. But hey if you like texting let me know you can have my number. I'm not a nut case i promise! I have 6 kids, 2 dogs, 3 cats, and 1 great husband. And lots of room for all kinds of friends. Oh and I'm 38 yrs old and getting sleeved in Mexico in 9 days.

God bless you being sleeved today! Here's to happy healing!!! I will be sleeved June 27 - Dr. Kelly, Mexico.