Elizabeth N.
Herder of cats
@Will2014, I mean it the other way around: A surgeon who has done a number of virgin DS procedures is not necessarily automatically a good choice for a revision procedure.
In your case, where you are going to MX, I think you would be infinitely better served to go to a MX surgeon who is a known entity with lots of real world experience in the procedure you really want. There are two: Ungson and Aceves. If you can't drop another grand or two for that level of experience right now, I strongly recommend that you wait and save it up and do it right.
A few years ago, a bunch of us vets watched a woman named Larissa Hersom (she has gone public with her entire story under that name) go through this same rigamarole. She just HAD to have her DS RIGHT NOW, and she just COULD NOT bring herself to spend the ....oh, maybe $1500 extra to go to Ungson. So she went to a guy whose name evades me, because he became stuck in my memory as "the butcher of Tijuana."
She nearly died umpteen times over. She was stone broke. She had family members trying to raise funds online. It was horrible, and she had alienated so many people online by being such a jerk in so many places, it was tough to get any sympathy or support anywhere. I certainly didn't feel particularly sorry for her.
Bottom line is that a surgeon took mercy on her and saved her life, eventually. I believe she's living all right now, but hell, she lost a LOT of her guts....I want to say her entire stomach and who knows what else....And she knows she's a walking example of a dire warning on the subject of surgeon choice.
I would like to see nobody else EVER experience what she did, or worse.
I am concerned that you are justifying your surgeon choice in a way that is not necessary in order to get a truly excellent surgeon at an equally good price.
ETA: I hope it was clear that my virgin-vs-revision comment was not about you, yes? But I think you asked good, pertinent questions here.
In your case, where you are going to MX, I think you would be infinitely better served to go to a MX surgeon who is a known entity with lots of real world experience in the procedure you really want. There are two: Ungson and Aceves. If you can't drop another grand or two for that level of experience right now, I strongly recommend that you wait and save it up and do it right.
A few years ago, a bunch of us vets watched a woman named Larissa Hersom (she has gone public with her entire story under that name) go through this same rigamarole. She just HAD to have her DS RIGHT NOW, and she just COULD NOT bring herself to spend the ....oh, maybe $1500 extra to go to Ungson. So she went to a guy whose name evades me, because he became stuck in my memory as "the butcher of Tijuana."
She nearly died umpteen times over. She was stone broke. She had family members trying to raise funds online. It was horrible, and she had alienated so many people online by being such a jerk in so many places, it was tough to get any sympathy or support anywhere. I certainly didn't feel particularly sorry for her.
Bottom line is that a surgeon took mercy on her and saved her life, eventually. I believe she's living all right now, but hell, she lost a LOT of her guts....I want to say her entire stomach and who knows what else....And she knows she's a walking example of a dire warning on the subject of surgeon choice.
I would like to see nobody else EVER experience what she did, or worse.
I am concerned that you are justifying your surgeon choice in a way that is not necessary in order to get a truly excellent surgeon at an equally good price.
ETA: I hope it was clear that my virgin-vs-revision comment was not about you, yes? But I think you asked good, pertinent questions here.