d7layman

Kimberly,

Everything went great for me! I had the gastric sleeve. As a nurse, I felt it was safer than the lap band and I desperately needed a permanent fix for my diabetes, high blood pressure and hyperlipidemia.

I found Emmanuel Medical, Dr. Almanza (who is as talented as he is cute) and Dr. Betancourt (who is the wonderful administrator/owner of Emmanuel Medical) to be wonderful!

The entire cost of my surgery was $8,500 plus my plane ticket to San Diego. This cost covered everything! My ride from the airport to the hospital, pre op labs, my surgery, post surgical, all medications post surgical labs and my hotel stay. The facility is super clean and new. They have 6 rooms (so it is pretty small), with a really nice operating room. I had a private nurse during the day and a private doctor (who was totally awesome) at night.