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I appreciate everyones responses and this helps me feel a lot better about BP. Thanks everyone!

This is my 100% honest review. I will go over the good and the bad and my experience as it was through my eyes.
I hope this will help you make the most informed decision possible.
On May 31 2016 my husband and I were sleeved at Florence Hospital in TJ, MX by Dr. Illan.
Stacey was at the airport on time to pick us up and was very kind, we crossed the boarder quickly and within 40 mins were at florence hospital in TJ. The hospital looks terrible from the outside, it really could be redone to make patients a bit more comfortable upon arrival. The inside of the hospital is very clean. My husband and I were shown to our room and right away nurses were getting our IV's in and our medical histories done. My surgery started about 3pm and was done within half an hour.
My husband mentioned when they moved me into the recovery area that my removed stomach was on the tray in the same room as him before they put him in the operating room. I don't think this was very sanitary.
Over all the doctor did a great job on our surgeries and we are healing up nicely.
After our surgeries back in the hospital room nurses were in and out constantly any time we hit the call button someone was there within 2 mins. I had a hard time sleeping the first night and Louis one of the BP staff stayed in the room talking to me all night which was great and helpful.
That night one of my bandages started to come off and when the nurse replaced that and re-taped my IV she wasn't wearing gloves. I mentioned this to Bill via a FB message and he said " They always use hand sanitizer that they have at the nurses station before entering the patients room. But I will bring it up to the hospital administrator." That's fine and dandy but still not 100% sanitary.
After we were discharged from the hospital Stacy took us to the recovery house and Juanito took us out. He was a great tour guide and showed us around town. The nurse at the recovery house is a sweetheart and does her best with her limited English, over all though she was just fantastic. The housekeeper at the recovery house was great too!
I do have a few issues with BP and have sent Alex an email addressing them. They are the following:
Stacy their "nutritionist" doesn't have a degree in nutrition, she is an engineer by trade. She is also the wife of Bill who is the administrator of BP. She is apparently going to school to be a nutritionist but still has quite some time ( 6 months at least) until she is done. She has had VSG though.
The post OP liquid diet it said we could eat Beans and eggs..... nobody mentioned anything until I asked about that because from what I know neither of those things are a liquid. That is a potentially life threatening issue, if someone where to eat those things on a newly formed sleeve it could cause a leak or worse, when I asked her why it said that we could have those she said she was aware of the issue and was working on updating the paperwork.. yet I had the paperwork for over 24 hours before anyone told me that I couldn't have those things..... 3. Juanito, while fun and a great tour guide was at times unprofessional not only was his language colorful and unprofessional he was bad mouthing that patient in recovery house 1 because according to Juanito, the patient, was "strange" and didn't want to do anything and because his wife was odd as well. Apparently the patient and his wife were fighting and that annoyed Juanito 4. Juanito, also said to my husband and I that we were too young to have needed the surgery, called us lazy he said we could have just worked out to lose the weight. Whether or not that is true its none of his damn business. We paid over $9000.00 using bariatric pal along with flights and food and I cannot say I would do it again, I also wouldn't recommend it to anyone else. I feel there are serious issues that need to be worked out before I would recommend BP to another person. I would though recommend Dr. Illan to anyone.
I did do a video recommending BP and have since requested it be removed as a majority of these issues happened AFTER the video was made.

When my nephew bumped into me when he wasn't paying attention and said "its not my fault I bumped into you, your just too fat, I mean too fluffy". 2 Christmas's ago and while I can't change what happened, this Christmas I will be getting healthy!

I have Myasthenia Gravis, Im hoping my surgery in May will help me get off the prednisone

I have Myasthenia Gravis, Im hoping my surgery in May will help me get off the prednisone

Hubby started out with the gym comments then I said " look this is what I'm doing, you and I have been trying to lose this weight the four years we have been together and when we were hitting the gym daily and eating 1500 calories i lost four pounds and you lost 10.... Do you want me to book yours too" After about a week of me telling him about my research he decided to do it with me

Hubby started out with the gym comments then I said " look this is what I'm doing, you and I have been trying to lose this weight the four years we have been together and when we were hitting the gym daily and eating 1500 calories i lost four pounds and you lost 10.... Do you want me to book yours too" After about a week of me telling him about my research he decided to do it with me

Good luck we are going in may too!

Good luck we are going in may too!

Good luck we are going in may too!

Shes an idiot.. My best friend told me " Just stop eating and youll lose weight" Coming from another obese person it was laughable.

Im talking to someone who also has my condition from my support group who had the sleeve and she said that it actually helped her get off pred. so hopefully that will be the case for me too!!!!

I have talked to my surgeon he feels like taking a medication like prilosec would help there not be any ulcers. Unfortunately my condition will not improve after WLS as it is autoimmune, my only hope of getting off the pred. is going into remission. That being said I do know that my weight isn't all attributed to the pred, but it has contributed to about 50lbs in the last year, that and overeating and the fact I had a sternotomy and was down for three months. Also due to my condition there is no way I could stop the pred before surgery.

When my nephew bumped into me when he wasn't paying attention and said "its not my fault I bumped into you, your just too fat, I mean too fluffy". 2 Christmas's ago and while I can't change what happened, this Christmas I will be getting healthy!

Im talking to someone who also has my condition from my support group who had the sleeve and she said that it actually helped her get off pred. so hopefully that will be the case for me too!!!!

For those of you who have had the sleeve were any of you on steroids? Im on 60mg of prednisone ( part of the reason ive gained 30lbs in the past year). How did that effect your weight loss after the sleeve? Im getting sleeved 5/31

Ill have to look into that. I emailed the bariatric dept of our hospital here in Utah. I am most likely already going to have my gallbladder removed and since my insurance is going to pay for that I am going to see if i can just do a two-in-one procedure and find out how much it'll be to do the sleeve at the same time. Crossing my fingers its cheaper.