Dumb luck

[Guest guest]

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

<laugh>

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