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Booked my surgery date!!!

I decided to stay in the states to do my surgery since it was hard to get ahold of people in Colombia. I'm going to Dr. Carmen Dimario. He has preformed surgeries on a few girls I know and they look absolutely stunning ?? the grand total comes out to $7000 USD and I'm perfectly fine paying that since I get to recover at home (15 mins from clinic) and it includes 20 post op massages, medication, anestesia, & the stage 1 faja. I'm super excited, pray for me y'all. I put a $1000 deposit and it's going down December 4th, just as I had wanted. I also applied for care credit and got approved for $6000 although I won't try to use it, it's just nice that it's there and I know I'm going through with the procedure no matter what. My pre-op appointment is on Halloween ???? and they need a 50% balance paid totaling $3000 off my balance due. Then before surgery the other $3000. Right now the man objective for me is to save up all my coins so I won't have to use the care credit. Hope this was informative for anyone reading. You already know if u have any questions, dm me. ???? I will update my wish pics on my next post so stay tuned

Beginning to take a lot more things into perspective

I have received my quotes from a few doctors in cali. Villalobos is charging $2900, Ortega is charging $3700 and plazas $4800.. all great prices keeping in mind that you get what you pay for. While I was waiting on these quotes I did note that sometimes I would get no response or be reached out to after a few days, that was something that concerned me. Imagine I was a patient who had a medical emergency ????.. who would reach out to make sure I'm ok? These are questions that I had never really gave mind to but I think it may be best to go forward with my procedure in the states. The more research I do, the more I realize that it's harder for doctors to monitor your progress when you are far away, and since you are far, who will enforce your health as top priority? A botched job would be a nightmare to revise (and costly without the results you could have initially obtained) and although I initially wanted to save as much money as possible, I feel like there are plenty of capable doctors in the states that can do just a good job.

Obtaining quotes

So I paid a $200 fee to my recovery center and they are setting everything up for me as far as reaching out to doctors to get a quote for me. I contacted Dr. Frank LaMadrid for a quote through WhatsApp and he said $7,000.. I told him that was absurd as I may as well get my operation in the states for all that. I asked why and he stated that it included an over night stay an 1 post op massage. I believe staying over aight should just be included in the package all together but ???? ok cool.. so how much just for my operation? He quoted $5,500! ???? so you telling me you charge a cool $1,500 for one over night stay.. ???? I calmly explained to him that he deserved just that and much more but my friends have come back from Colombia looking like total barbies for like $3,500.. finally he agreed to lower it to $4,000 after I told him it would be a friend of mine and I going. I still declined.. I felt that since I was coming from the states he was trying to hustle me. Left a bad taste in my mouth. Now come to find out, I tried looking him up to verify he's board certified and alas, nothing comes up ???? I am grateful as I feel I've dodged a bullet. For that reason I'm happy to leave it to my recovery centers hands to get me a good quote with a reputable doctor ???????

Provider Review

Dr. Fernando Ortega

I have made a list of various doctors to get a quote from through Venus recovery center. I'm just waiting to hear back from them. They include Dr. Harold Villalobos, Dr. Carlos Recio, Dr. Luis Eduardo Plazas Coronado, & Dr. Carlos Alberto Rios.. if anyone would like to share their experiences with me don't hesitate to reach out!