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Marek Lutrzykowski, M.D.
I was immediately put at ease after meeting Dr. L. I was nervous walking into his office, probably from not knowing what to expect but those feelings quickly left. He went over the surgery in detail, asked me why I chose DS over RNY and said that I had chose the DS for the right reasons. He answered all of our questions thoroughly and spent a great deal of time with us going through all of my paperwork thoroughly. His staff is great! Very friendly, welcoming and easy to talk to.
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  • Comment by Cira S. on 2/3/07 8:07 pm
    Congratulations on your surgery. Wishing you all the best and a speedy recovery.
  • Comment by LadyDi9080 on 1/31/07 1:28 pm
    Deanna, here is wishing you THE BEST surgery and recovery! Even better than your c-sections! Life will get better. Dianne from FL
  • Comment by LeaAnn on 1/31/07 11:25 am
    Congratulations on gettin' switched, Deanna! We're cheering you on and saving you a seat in Loserville! Wishing you a safe surgery and smooth recovery, SwitchSistah!
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Pre-op appointment
on January 30, 2007 11:34 am
I had my pre-op appointment yesterday.  I've lost 7 lbs. since I saw him in mid December! woohoo!  I had a long list of questions which he answered really well.  Then Dr. L told us all about the possible complications.  While it was worrying, it was also reassuring.  It's not like I wasn't worried about what could go wrong anyways so having him explain why things happen and how to avoid them helped me a lot.  After talking with Dr. L we sat with Julie for a while and went over a bunch of paperwork and talked about all the supplements, foods, protein, etc etc.  She also told us where to go to get the ones that I can't get here in Canada (Allergy D and Allergy A&D).  I'm going to have to check out the internet to see if I can get any better deals of if I will need to drive across the border periodically.  Not that big of a deal since we go across fairly often.  

Anyways, so here I am two days away.  This is my last day of 'food' for a while.  I have to be on clear liquids tomorrow and do a bowel prep so I'm not leaving the house! LOL  So I'm cooking up a big steak dinner tonight for the 4 of us.  I already made a batch of my famous macaroni and cheese today so that I could freeze it for the kids while I'm recovering.  Plus I'm going to make all of the jello's that I'll be eating tonight as well so it's a big day in the kitchen for me!
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OHIP scare!
on January 26, 2007 6:26 pm
A week before surgery I get a call from Julie at Dr. L's office saying that she hasn't received my second approval from OHIP as of yet.  She had faxed in Dr. L's consult report to them twice and she still hadn't heard from them.  I was scheduled the next day to go in for my preop appointment! 

So I get on the phone and I'm calling over and over to Barb Holt in Kingston.  All I get is her voice mail.  Julie calls and gets through to her but she won't tell her any info.... weird.  Finally we had to put off the preop appointment until Monday.  Late Friday afternoon I get a call from Barb saying that she has my paperwork, it's signed and approved.  She was faxing it off in the next few minutes!  WHEW!  I was really worried that my surgery date wasn't going to happen especially since a lot of people have rearranged their lives to give us a hand in the coming weeks.
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I've got a date!!!
on January 8, 2007 9:06 pm
February 1st at 7:30 a.m.
I can't believe how quickly this entire process has taken.  I completed all of my required tests last week and now I just need to have them sent from my PCP to my surgeon.  As long as all things look good, I'll be switched in a little over 3 weeks!  3 weeks!!!! OMG!
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