Re: Dumb luck

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Wow, Ford -

You sure did luck out. There are so many RNY surgeons who, in turn, perform

a lot of RNY surgeries. The wait for the DS can be much longer. Well, I'm

glad you got the DS and happier still that you are satisfied with the

results.

Best-

Nick

Dumb luck

>

> Actually....I'm going to take exception to what Nick said.

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> <laugh>

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> I didn't do the damn research before I had the surgery....I had the

" right "

> surgery by plain ol' dumb luck.

>

> I found out about gastric bypass trying to find out what the surgical

risks

> were for someone with my health problems. I was so miserable that I wanted

> to go ahead and have my heart surgery so I could BREATHE again...and sleep

> again.

>

> I found a page on the internet about Gastric bypass, I went on to find a

> surgeon in the Northern Virginia area, and called and made an appointment

> the next day. He couldn't see me for, like, 2 months, so I called the next

> Doctor on the list, Dr. Elariny. He made an appointment for me for a week

> later.

>

> I went in to see him and he told me about the RNY. We went over it, and I

> decided to do it. I made another appointment for a couple of weeks

> later...at that one, he told me about this new surgery he was getting

ready

> to try called the duodenal switch. He was going to a conference in June in

> New Orleans, and was going to talk to the doctors that had developed

> it...and described all of the benefits it offered. Did I want to try it?

> Hell YES I wanted to try it.

>

> So he did the surgery on July 5th of last year. I was the second DS he

ever

> did, and the first he did lap.

>

> Just dumb luck.

>

> I have read a lot about it SINCE then, but....sometimes the universe works

> in strange ways.

>

> Ford

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