Hi, I am Rita and I live near Anderson SC.

I am begining my WLS journey. I am scheduled for the seminar at Lexington May 5. I am also planning to go to Dr. Bour's seminar.

I will self pay due to ins exclusion.

Any advice, tips or info will be greatly appreciated.

Hi Rita, Have you heard anything about the doctors in Seneca? Dr. Paluzzi and Dr. Hughes do the surgery? Just wondering if there's a reason you're going to Lexington instead of Seneca? I've been to the seminar with Paluzzi, and going to schedule an appt. with him. Let me know if you have any advice.

Hi Rita. My name is Rebecca and I'm also attending the seminar on May 5th. I'm looking forward to starting my journey with the LB. Today I went and meet with my PCP for my referral to Dr Givens. Hope to meet you at the seminar.

Hi Rita, Have you heard anything about the doctors in Seneca? Dr. Paluzzi and Dr. Hughes do the surgery? Just wondering if there's a reason you're going to Lexington instead of Seneca? I've been to the seminar with Paluzzi, and going to schedule an appt. with him. Let me know if you have any advice.

Hi

I am researching by going to different seminars. I also like the idea of the idea of the Centers of Excellence.

What did you think at the seminar you went to? Do you live near Anderson?

Hugs

Rita

Hi Rita. My name is Rebecca and I'm also attending the seminar on May 5th. I'm looking forward to starting my journey with the LB. Today I went and meet with my PCP for my referral to Dr Givens. Hope to meet you at the seminar.

Hi Rebecca

Do you live in the Upstate? It will be great to meet you.

Hugs

Rita

Hey Rita, I live in the Lexington area.

If I have my surgery in Columbia I am sure I will be spending a lot of time in the area. I will see you there

Hugs

Rita

Hi all! I live in SC too! I am going to the Weight Management Center through Palmetto Health Baptist. I also considered Lexington, but went with Baptist for a number of different reasons, but nothing to do with the center or surgeons specifically. Just personal preference. Hope everyone is doing well on their journeys! Good luck to all of you and keep us posted on your progress!

Hey Kathy how are you doing tonight? I'm doing well. May I ask why you chose to go the Baptist. Who's the Dr you are using for the banding? I wonder if Dr. Given's does the banding at both or just Lexington? I have always had all my surgery's at Lexington. Which both hospitals are great. How long has it been since you submitted the pw to your insurance comany

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Hey Kathy how are you doing tonight? I'm doing well. May I ask why you chose to go the Baptist. Who's the Dr you are using for the banding? I wonder if Dr. Given's does the banding at both or just Lexington? I have always had all my surgery's at Lexington. Which both hospitals are great. How long has it been since you submitted the pw to your insurance comany

Hey! I'm doing well - glad it's Wednesday! I am using Dr. Ben Tribble from the Weight Management Center through Baptist. I actually live in Sumter, so Baptist is a bit closer, but the main reason I chose Baptist was because I was already familiar with Dr. Tribble. His brother did heart surgery on my mother a couple of years ago and was just awesome. Through him, we met my doctor and when I started checking into LB and found out he did it, that kinda made my mind up.

I have never been a patient at either hospital, so that wasn't a factor for me. I did feel like I received awesome attention when I went in for my testing though. They are set up to handle extremely obese patients, so there were oversized chairs in all the waiting rooms, heavy duty wheel chairs available, and they already had a larger sized gown out for me when I undressed for my tests, so I didn't have to ask for one or come out only partially covered. I never once felt like anyone there looked down on me because of my size and that is unusual. Most of those things are required before they can be named a Bariatric Center of Excellence, but people can still treat you however they want to and there was not a single bad attitude that I encountered.

Anyway, if you have any other questions, I would be happy to answer them for you. Good luck!