"When I first met Dr. L I was very nervous that he would refuse to do my surgery because I have been refused before my other surgeons because of my blood clotting issues, but, this was not a concern for Dr.L because he assured me that ge trreats all of his patients pre-op and post-op with heparin. Which was a great relief and he told me all about the DS surgery and I was listening but not quite because I was sure he was going to refuse me. I kept asking and he said he will do my surgery. I was so excited and well, Julie was great, very nice lady. We drove from Bethany, ON to bloomfield Hills at midnight and the weather was crappy and my husband drove and we arrived 2 hours early for my consult(January 22/07) and Julie got me in early and was so nice about it. I was given all the pre-op post-op papers and surgery was to ASAP but due to my previous surgery of VBG in 1991 and reversal in 1996 due to major strictures, vomitting you name it. Dr. L needed to see the anatomy of my stomach and of course because it is covered in Ontario they would not approve to have it done in USA. So, I was refereed to a GAstroenterologist in Peterborough and he is booked solid until October 2007 and I was put as urgent and my consult with Dr. Chan was April 18th/07 and then you usually have the scope a month after the consult which would take me into the end of May/07 and then surgeray woould be in June sometime of this year. Then today I got great news from Julie. I got approved for the surgery only waited 3 weeks. So, I decided to call Dr. CHan's office and talked to Lynn and told her I was approved and she was so excited for me. SHe has me booked next weeek (March 14th/07) to have aconsult with Dr. Chan and she said the following week I will probably have my scope done (March 21/07) I was ready to burst I was so excited. I agin talked to JUlie and we are looking at surgery for the week of April 9th/07. I can hardly wait. Julie has always remained in touch with me and I appreciate that very much. What a wonderful group of professionals in that office."
