Littleroo27 Posted September 5, 2006 Report Share Posted September 5, 2006 Yes, I survived a trip to TJ by myself!!! It was actually very easy and I was never scared or felt endangered or anything. My parents were freaking out from Kansas and kept calling me, even before I left my apartment, but I was fine! Took the trolley to San Ysidro and a bus to the edge of the border crossing. Walked through the border and hopped in a cab to the doctor's office. Spoke with Dr. Ortiz and the nutritionist and took a tour of the office. Dr. Ortiz is very very nice and knowledgable, and the clinic itself is spotlessly clean and beautiful, if small. 6 recovery rooms, one surgical room, two computers with high speed internet to keep in touch with your family back home during your short stay. The nutritionist weighed me and said I needed to lose 16 lbs before surgery in order to shrink my liver, so that's not bad . After that they called a taxi for me and I went back to the border crossing. After seeing the insane line to cross back to the US I decided to hop in one of the border crossing vans. That took us to Otay Mesa, where we got out and waited in a much shorter line (about 10 minutes or so) and then got back in the van on the other side. We were then driven to the San Ysidro trolley station where I hopped on and was taken back to my car. All in all, not a bad trip! Round Trip Trolley: $5.00 Taxi to Dr. Ortiz: $5.00 Taxi to border: $5.00 Border crossing van $10.00 Weight Loss Surgery: Priceless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slm Posted September 5, 2006 Report Share Posted September 5, 2006 I AM GLAD ALL WENT WELL FOR YOU & HOPE THIS MADE YOU FEEL BETTER ABOUT DR ORTIZ & TJ. IT'S AMAZING HOW CLEAN THE CLINIC IS .HOTEL IS JUST AS NICE .BEST WISHES IN YOUR JOURNEY AND 16POUNDS IS A PIECE OF CAKE . GOOD LUCK SLM BANDED 8/11/06 DR. ORTIZ & MARTINEZ 336/318/306 P.S CHEAP TRIP THIS TIME(HA HA) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAMMIE Posted September 5, 2006 Report Share Posted September 5, 2006 Yes, I survived a trip to TJ by myself!!! It was actually very easy and I was never scared or felt endangered or anything. My parents were freaking out from Kansas and kept calling me, even before I left my apartment, but I was fine! Took the trolley to San Ysidro and a bus to the edge of the border crossing. Walked through the border and hopped in a cab to the doctor's office. Spoke with Dr. Ortiz and the nutritionist and took a tour of the office. Dr. Ortiz is very very nice and knowledgable, and the clinic itself is spotlessly clean and beautiful, if small. 6 recovery rooms, one surgical room, two computers with high speed internet to keep in touch with your family back home during your short stay. The nutritionist weighed me and said I needed to lose 16 lbs before surgery in order to shrink my liver, so that's not bad . After that they called a taxi for me and I went back to the border crossing. After seeing the insane line to cross back to the US I decided to hop in one of the border crossing vans. That took us to Otay Mesa, where we got out and waited in a much shorter line (about 10 minutes or so) and then got back in the van on the other side. We were then driven to the San Ysidro trolley station where I hopped on and was taken back to my car. All in all, not a bad trip! Round Trip Trolley: $5.00 Taxi to Dr. Ortiz: $5.00 Taxi to border: $5.00 Border crossing van $10.00 Weight Loss Surgery: Priceless LITTLEROO, DID YOU END UP MAKING A DATE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littleroo27 Posted September 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2006 LITTLEROO, DID YOU END UP MAKING A DATE? Not yet. I'm still thinking it will be March before I have my finances in such a position that I can do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WendySoCal Posted September 5, 2006 Report Share Posted September 5, 2006 That's awesome!! 5.00 for taxi to Dr. Ortiz's office? It must not be too far from the border then? I'm glad your trip was a smooth and quick one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littleroo27 Posted September 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2006 That's awesome!! 5.00 for taxi to Dr. Ortiz's office? It must not be too far from the border then? I'm glad your trip was a smooth and quick one. No, it's not very far at all, though he did get lost for a bit, I think. The trip back to the border was quicker (about 10 minutes). I think it would be helpful for OCC to provide directions to the clinic in both English and Spanish so that we can provide the Spanish copy to the taxi driver. I gave him the address and the directions in English (with the street names bolded) and eventually we were close enough to the building that I saw that sign (Institute de la Vision) and pointed him over that way. The only part that was really time consuming was getting back home! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireinCO Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 Littleroo, I'm so glad you had a good trip. I was so pleased with everything, too. You'll be in the best of hands in March! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoriBecky Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 OK... i have someone working on the spanish version of the directions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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