Long review and 9 years late, but Dr Shamoun is still my hero!

Today is Oct 10, 2024. I wrote the below review sometime in 2019, but being very tech-challenged, I just now found it in my notes & realized that I didn’t post it when I thought I had. I’ll be 72 next month & I think I’m losing it! lol Obviously, I'm late to the game with my review, but Dr. Shamoun deserves everything I have to say! I first met & chose him to perform my procedures early in 2013. I had had breast augmentation 29 years earlier…not to get bigger (I was a 32D), just wanted to be rounder. After nursing a child at 40, plus gaining & losing weight, my boobs had gotten bigger (now DD’s) & too heavy …I wanted them lifted and to return to a D cup. Everything the other reviewers have said about Dr. John Shamoun, is true! I was extremely happy with my outcome & I was not just a simple case breast augmentation case. I presented this doctor with a challenge that involved several different types of procedures (above & below the bust-line). Maybe I was looking for a miracle at 61 yrs old? lol I wasn’t requesting anything that would produce a huge change in looks and he didn’t make me feel I was being unrealistic. In fact, I didn’t seem to sway this man at all. He was up for the job & concerned that I understood it would be a long surgery. Like others have said, he knows what he’s doing & did not hesitate to make suggestions rather than waiting for me to “know the questions.” There’s no doubt that he is a gifted cosmetic artist; his results speak to that. Dr. Shamoun, doesn’t need my approval in that area, but I do want to share how impressed I am by the man as a human being! His honesty, candidness, compassion, & generosity, with regard to his time, go beyond what you’d expect from a busy & well-respected surgeon. As I said, I was very pleased the work I’d had done and, although not cheap, I felt the fees were fair - my money had been well spent! Four months after Dr Shamoun had worked on me, I had a life-threatening bowel blockage that required emergency surgery. The hospital’s surgeon did a hack job on my abdomen and left me disfigured. An incisional hernia later surfaced above the awful scar & by that point I was embarrassed to be seen w/o clothes, even by my boyfriend. There’s more…. Just 3 years after Dr Shamoun had completed his work on me, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I underwent a single mastectomy in 2017 and had the other side done in 2019. Even though the reconstruction was good work, due to the horrible job that had been done on my stomach, I felt very depressed and disfigured. I knew I couldn’t afford more cosmetic surgery at that time to “fix me,” but I at least needed to talk to someone. That’s when I showed up at Dr Shamoun’s office, unannounced, late one afternoon. I figured I would just say hello and make an appt to come back at another time. It’s times like this that you realize what kind of person is "behind the surgeon.” Dr Shamoun didn’t go home on time that day…instead, he spent over 2 hours listening, looking, making notes, and reassuring me that he could repair the mess the other doctor had made. It wasn’t about money that afternoon…he knew I couldn’t do anything then. He also understood that I needed to talk, to be reassured…and that he did. When I tried to pay for that 2+ hour consult, he refused my money. I had been a fan of Dr Shamoun’s for several years by that time, but it was that day that he became a “true human hero” in my book! And, lest I forget…Yvonne, his receptionist, who has been with him for eons is the sweetest lady you could hope to meet! She greets you like a friend, not just another patient!