Fair fax

I mentioned in my last post that I was going to go to Washington, D.C./fair fax or wherever he is to have my FOV. Well I watched his videos and seminars etc and he seemed like a really good doctor. I had a date set up to drive there and have my FOV. I exchanged many emails with this doctor and asked many questions. He made the surgery sound like a peice of cake. I asked him how many eyes he has messed up doing FOV and he said none. I then got on floatertalk and read whattodozels story and sent it to him. He didn't admit it was his patient for hippa reasons, but zel posted proof that he was the doctor. I then told this doctor that he had lied to me. His response was "it has happened but it's rare." So first he told me it hasn't happened, then contradicted himself that it has happened rarely. I was also going to pay out of pocket and asked him if anything bad happened requiring another surgery while I was there, if I would have to have the money up front again and he said yes. So basically I felt like if I had a retinal tear that needed fixed the next day he would leave me hanging because I didn't have the money for two surgeries. When I brought this up to him he said "you can have it fixed in Ohio right" (because my insurance only works here in Ohio) so basically he was saying if he messes up someone from my area can fix it. It was all a bit shady to me so I cancelled.

My next post should be really interesting to you. It will be about how I met my doctor and my strategy with finding him:)