HBskinnygirl

I had surgery on a Wednesday and went back to work on Monday. I work 12 hours a day and was on my feet most of the day. I was fine. Each of us recover differently, but I went walking everyday to speed up the recovery process....and it worked. If you sit around and "milk" the surgery then you will probably recover slower. Then again, I have major OCD issues, so I can't just sit still......I think that worked to my advantage. It would have drove me crazy sitting at home for weeks recovering

Because if they remove it they wouldn't get any business! I know for a fact that when I spoke to Dr Kelly after my surgery, that he was trying to get his info removed from their website and also get the ramoskelly.com website shut down. All those sites do is refer patients to other doctors. I am 3 weeks post op with Dr Kelly (surgery January 25th) and he was great. In another post someone stated that we all think Dr Kelly is a god, I don't think he's god....but he was good. I base that on the fact that I was comfortable with him, my surgery was successful not only because I survived, but I've had no complications and I'm losing weight. I was not swayed by all the negative bashing between coordinators. All this talk reminds me of my old high school days......it's so immature. Choose a doctor you feel comfortable with, and my choice was Dr Kelly.

I posted Dr Kelly's contact info in a separate post, but here it is. I paid $6000 because I had a revision from lap-band, but $5500 appears to be the going rate for Dr Kelly based on what others have posted. Here is Dr Kelly's contact info. Tel: 619-793-4869 or 619-395-5347 Email: jrkelly45@hotmail.com Website: wlsclinic.com Good Luck!

I was wondering the same thing. Why is it some people have restriction on liquids and some of us can drink whatever we want. Just seems weird. I know we are all different but isnt our sleeve all similarly shaped? I know I'm still healing as its just day 2 post op but I feel like I've been drinking water & Gatorade all day long, little sips at a time with no feeling of restriction. Does it take a while to start feeling it?

Congrats, I was sleeved on Wednesday. I felt mild discomfort that day but the next day was worse for me. I had to keep forcing myself to walk it off. Today, I felt soooo much better! Hang in there!

I've received a few emails asking for his info... It took me a while to track down his real contact info on these boards so I thought I would just pass the info on and post it together in one post. Here is Dr Kelly's contact info. Tel: 619-793-4869 or 619-395-5347 Email: jrkelly45@hotmaildotcom Website: wlsclinicdotcom Be advised that the "ramoskelly" website is not run by Dr Kelly himself, it is run by patient coordinators who work with multiple doctors. I spoke to him today and he is currently trying to get the website shut down or changed because it is misleading to his patients.

Hi all... I just wanted to give you all a little info about cell reception at florence hospital. Yes, they have Wifi and it works pretty well. In my room the reception was mostly roaming with spotty Verizon popping up for a few seconds here and there. I did call the hospital front desk and they connected me a few times But i did find great cell reception in the front patio along the wall were there is a row a chairs. In that area I got 3 whopping bars of Verizon on my cell phone. Yahoo! Hope this helps.

I even had to remind Dr Kelly's assistant Anaid that I have a check and she said don't worry about it know, let's get you all set up in the hospital first. I was at the hospital for hours and after all the pre-op tests before I gave them the check. That made me feel good that it wasn't the first thing they asked for when I got picked up.

The rooms at Florence are large, they include the hospital bed, full size guest bed & some of the rooms have recliners (mine didn't). I've sat on the guest bed and it's really not comfortable in my opinion, but I'm a bit of a bed snob and used to my comfy bed at home. I guess each room will be different. If your lucky and get rooms on the right you will have a nice view ( I wasn't a lucky one). One suggestion is to bring earplugs because it was nice to tune out all the activity in the hospital.

I talked to Dr Kelly and he said that he was able to use the same incision marks as before and that he always tries to do this on everybody. I know it should be the least of my worries, but one day I would really love to wear a 2 piece bikini

Hi all, I had surgery yesterday & It went well but I literally feel like I was run over by a bus! I'm not kidding. This was a sleeve revision so I knew it was going to probably be worse than the band... and I was right. I've been trying to walk as much as I can, but still sore. Not really any pain just exhausted and sore. Skinny girl here I come!

I had surgery yesterday and it went well, but I literally feel like I was run over by a truck! This was a sleeve revision so I knew it would not be as easy as my band surgery, but just hate feeling like crap. Skinny here I come!

If you go directly with Dr Kelly, you bring a cashiers check. I didn't even need to put down a deposit..... (i dont know if this is common with everbody or not, but its just what i experienced)....But I hear if you go through the coordinators you pay them directly because they make a profit from the booking.

Wow, such drama on some other posts...LOL I'm here just waiting for the rest of the pre-op tests.... Getting excited

I was banded in Oct 2010 by Dr Ortiz and I did it alone. I'm now getting a revision to sleeve and I'm doing it alone. I only live 2 hrs away, so it's probably easier than dealing with flights. My Hubby is the only one who knows about this too so there really wasn't an option for me to bring anyone. Plus, if you bring someone they are just going to stare at you and get bored in the hospital anyways