Lap Band Mexico - Testimonial

Lap Band Mexico experience of Sondra Hall from Parsons Oklahoma. Sondra used the services of Medical Tourism Corporation for the gastric banding weight loss surgery in Mexico. For more watch video interview... To start video scroll below and click play button.

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Introduction

Laparoscopic gastric band experience of Sondra Hall from USA. By profession Sondra is the Director of not for profit organization that provides support and services for the persons with developmental disabilities. Sondra visited Mexico for Lap Band Surgery. She shares the reason why she decided on the surgery.
Her choice of Medical Tourism Corporation as a trip facilitator, her choice of Mexico as the destination. Her medical journey and progress, the interview was taken after thirty days of her surgery.

Testimonial of Sondra Hall

"I am Sondra Hall. And my profession is I am the director of an agency, which provides services to the persons with disabilities. I have been in this field for almost fourteen years, been a director for two. I am married. I have been married for 10 years, and I have three children they are seventeen, fourteen and eight and I then I have a fifteen year old niece who lives with me. Well I had struggled with my weight most of my life. And in year 2007 I decided to really concentrate on working out, trying to eat right, and loose the excess weight and I started the program in February 2007. I spent majority of that year working out three days, four, and sometimes five days a week. I watched what I ate. I was really dedicated to really getting the weight off. By the end of 2007 I really didnt see much progress. I actually resumed jogging, which was something I haven't done since I was in high school. And so you know I had always kind off felt in the back of my mind if I just got to the point right where I couldn't loose weight. I was going to check into for a surgery. So in doing so I was surfing the web and I heard about the Lap Band procedure, so I searched that and that's going to how I got to know about going overseas for medical procedures.
Well, the biggest call for me to do overseas surgery was the cost. I do have insurance but bariatric procedures are one hundred percent excluded from that and so since I knew I was going to have to pay the cost you know that was very much you know reason why want to do it outside the United States.  Like I said when I was surfing web looking over the internet and doing some research you know the Medical Tourism Corporation website came up, I entered some information and just very shortly after that I received a phone call. And that's where I got the ball rolling. I felt the communication lines worked really well. If I had a questions I could just pick up the phone and make a phone call or got on to computer and write a quick email, and the responses were you know were very quick.
And I was little apprehensive at first because, I personally had never been outside the United States. But I had just decided that this was the path I needed to take with my weight loss, and so it took a little time the fear faded. And then my mind was just made up.
I do live in a small town and there is kind off small town mentality that people kind off said in their ways it's unusual, not unheard but unusual for people to go to another country to have the medical procedure. And so when people would hear that's what I was doing, everybody had an opinion about it. Everybody had questions, news traveled fast; people would come up to me that I had, talked to for a while. And they would say that I heard your going or went to Mexico to have the surgery and how you know. What made you think of that, were you scared, were you worried. I had to do a lot of reassuring to other people I am going to be ok. And immediately my husband was very supportive of my decision. My kids were little worried you know I think they were more worried about being gone who is going to cook for them for few days. But my family was apprehensive.
My mother is a nurse and she takes health care very seriously. And you know like no one we really knew had done this before no one could really say that was a successful experience. So, I was kind of a pioneer for the family and my friends and for the community to do this.
But now that it's over and done, it's a very successful procedure. Everything went well, you know that everybody is seeing it in a different seeing it in a different way now.
Was Sheela who works for Medical Tourism and she have had a procedure a Lap Band procedure. And had lots of experience with that made arrangements for put me in touch with a doctor, very close to where I live, who could do the fills and adjustments to the Lap Band once I returned. And she also gave lots of good insight about recovery and how much time I would need, and kind of what to expect. It was arranged and very helpful.
The hospital was beautiful; everything was very clean and organized and it had lots of art work and sculptors. The hospital staff was very polite and very accommodating as soon as myself and my friend who traveled with me. I got there they greeted us, and they just  helped us checked in and got all the paper works signed, get up to the room. The room was very clean; the bathroom was beautiful. So it was very comfortable and pleasing. I would say in my opinion it's a very clean, very pretty, very organized, the staff was very friendly and made u felt like they had time to work with you. You know they made me feel more comfortable. It was unlike any hospital in United States I have been in. And so I would say in my personal opinion that I would say it was better. It was just a over great experience.
You know I healed quite well. I had four small sessions. And you know the doctor afterwards came in, and the dietician came in to my room and everybody just worked to let me know what to expect as far as my healing process and it was great. My expectations were exceeded. I was basically you see Medical Tourism took all the guess work out of you know how to make arrangements to have surgery, you know I just, if had a question, I called or emailed and I get a response quickly. And I just you know just the whole process I would definitely do it again. It was very easy to allow Medical Tourism to do the work for me. You know they made all the arrangements at the hospital, for my transportation from the airport to the hotel; hotel to the hospital. You know as far as making the payment arrangements all that is taken was take care by them, I did very little though I get the rewards. I would say, you know it's a personal choice and it's a one I needed to make it for myself and being that it's very cost effective to do overseas surgery. You know I felt like I got much than what I had expected quality, care so you know the reduced cost that I had, recommended to other people. You know anybody who asked me about my procedure or what got me to go down the path of overseas surgery you know I am definitely going to recommend Medical Tourism Corporation."

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