Meeting Dr. Landers--first time tomorrow

Hi--I'm meeting Dr. Landers for the first time tomorrow for my pre-op appointment. Wish me luck! Will post once I gain insight on what he's all about

I had LAP-BAND® surgery on 1/28/2009 with Dr. Landers. He is a wonderful surgeon. I am so glad I got him instead of Dr. Bock. I am not too fond of Dr. Bock based on what I heard about him.

Dr. Landers comes from a family with history of morbid obesity and he was 50 lbs overweight himself too so I think that's where he got his love for weight loss surgery and wants to help people.

When I first met him, I think he was inexperienced having a deaf patient (yep, I'm deaf), because when he started to look at my stomach, he asked me if I wanted the interpreter to leave the room, I wanted to laugh but I didn't. I thought it was sweet that he wanted to respect me.

He took really good care of me during my surgery. I woke up to his smiling face in the recovery room. I did not feel pain until I scooted over to the hospital bed from the wheeling table then it hurt. The only time I was in pain was when getting in and out of bed, bending down to pee, getting in and out of car. But no pain when walking, and I walked normally and the nurse had to tell me to slow down. I did not feel sick or anything at all, in fact I never napped at all that day/night in the hospital. I stayed overnight. I woke up in recovery room at approximately 11:50 am and to my room at almost 1230 or so. I did not have any naps until 1145 pm, the pain killers did not knock me out till the nurse gave me a much stronger one at 11:45 pm which really knocked me out. I drove the 2nd night after my surgery because I was bored to tears and wanted a new book from Borders on a Friday night! LOL

I have seen him 3 times since and will see him again on July 22nd. I think I am in need of fill but I am travelling next week so that will be an issue and he did not have any appts. available this week except with PA and I refuse to see Bock or PA. I do not allow any PA (physician assistant) to touch me except in orthopedics based on my bad experience in the Urgent Care back in 2006 related to my back problems and he was very uncaring and pratically threw me out and thew me a bottle of pain killers.

That's all I can say about Dr. Landers. He is a wonderful surgeon and I am glad he joined Group Health as I, too, am an employee for Group Health!

Group Health rocks!