Searching For Cancer Oct 2010

A Mexican Medical Experience

It's been a month since my Celiac Disease diagnosis

and the only thing left to do now

is to stick to a gluten-free diet

and search for cancer from Celiac damage.

The morning of the dreaded colonoscopy

we met my doctor, Juan Pablo Loza Méndez,

at his office in Chapala at 7:30AM.

 Dr. Juan Pablo Loza Méndez

Calle Guerrero #141

Chapala
Cel  333 141 3364

He drove us to the hospital in Guadalajara

for the procedure, where he would also assist.

Hospital Dr. Ángel Leaño is the teaching hospital

for the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara A.C. (UAG),

the premier medical school in Guadalajara.

 It was impressive.

I was taken into the procedure room

and the first thing I saw when I walked in was this painting.

Although I am a spiritual person,

and not particularly a religious person,

I have to say I found this painting

very moving.

Maybe the fact that they were going to stick

instruments a loooong way up into my body

had something to do with it.

They prepared to sedate me and the

Chief of Staff of Gastroenterology came in and introduced himself.

He was a kind, confident, warm, and intelligent looking

man and I liked him instantly.

His name is Dr. J Martín García González

He explained everything he was going to do

and asked a lot of appropriate questions.

The nurse started the IV, put on a relaxing DVD of waves and beaches,

loaded a blank DVD into their recorder,

and pushed the sedation.

Goodnight!

I awoke to Dr. Juan Pablo and the nurse saying

"No cancer!!!"  "No cancer!!!"  "No cancer!!!"

OMG

After that we went to Dr. García's handsome office

for the results and a consultation.

 He gave me a bound booklet of the results with photos

and a DVD of the procedure.

The rest of the story is:

Procedure/Dr./Hospital - $5000 pesos (about $400US)

Dr. Juan Pablo's services - $1000 pesos (about $80US) 

NOT FINDING CANCER - PRICELESS!