I had a consultation with Dr. Neal at Pacific Surgical today. Yay! He has a skeleton crew at the Bremerton office, so the lady with all the nitty gritty details will call me tomorrow to go over everything.

He answered all of my questions & looked over my new patient form as we talked. He was super nice!

After my brief experience with the way Dr. Oh does things, I was relieved to hear the amount of pre-op work that Dr. Neal wants.

He told me that most patients do a full liquid diet for the two weeks prior to surgery to shrink their liver.

After he examined my abs he said that I didn't need to do the liquid diet! Since my upper abs aren't as fatty & flabby as the lower ones, I can skip it. Yay!

Other than that, I'll need to see a nutritionist (I saw the names/locations on their site) and the typical bloodwork that everyone does right before any surgery.

The whole appointment was smooth & quick. The office is small, but clean and modern/new. I was there for maybe 40 minutes total (I arrived a little early). There was one patient with the doctor when I got there & two others came in for fills, but that was it. I like it when it's not crowded!

The receptionist took the forms I printed off their site & filled out. She also weighed me before the doctor saw me. Once I saw him we chatted for a few minutes then he had me go to another room where I could lay back on an exam table so he could check my abs. He also had me take deep breaths & listened w/ his scope.

We went back to the room we started in to wrap things up. He had the receptionist call the Olympia office to see what time Michelle would be able to call me tomorrow to go over the details.

That was it. Ahhhh. Yep, this feels right. I feel much more sure of my decision than I did when I visited Dr. Oh's office.

If I had to come up with a "con" or negative thing for today's visit, it would be that the available parking stunk. Next time I won't even pull into the driveway, I'll just park on the street.

If that's the worst part of the experience, sign me up! :confused: