What to Expect During Your Weight Loss Surgery Hospital Stay?

“Learn what you can expect during your Weight Loss Surgery Journey from the moment you arrive until we say goodbye.“

Learn what you can expect during your Weight Loss Surgery Journey at Florence hospital stay from the moment you arrive until we say goodbye. Go Light team has prepared a video that shows the complete experience of our gastric sleeve and gastric bypass patients, in hopes to ease your anxiety, as it is better to see once than to hear a thousand times. You will see the following:

Admission process
Pre-op tests (lab work, EKG, chest X-ray)
IV application
Meet Dr. Francisco Zavalza, the surgeon, Dr.Marcela Perez, the nutritionist, Dr. Laura Martinez, the anesthesiologist, Dr. Miguel Cordero, the cardiologist, and more.
General anesthesia application
Gastric sleeve, RNY bypass, and gallbladder removal procedures
Surgical equipment sterilization process
Post-op leak test
Incision staples and drain tube removal
Interviews with each patient
3 months post-operatory progress (before and after photos)

Join Gaby and Sayra, step by step, as they undergo bariatric surgery in Tijuana Mexico. Gaby gets a Gastric Sleeve and Sayra a Gastric Bypass at the Florence Hospital by Dr. Francisco Zavalza.

Day One
Check-in with the Go Light facilitator 00:10
Blood Samples are taken 02:48
Gaby gets X-Rays done 06:51
Once in their rooms they meet with the Patient Care Physician 08:18
Sayra gets her IV 09:37
Gaby and Sayra meet the Cardiologist, Anesthesiologist, other Go Light facilitators, and more 13:42
Meeting with Dr. Zavalza and preparations for surgery 15:33
Gaby is put under general anesthesia and the operation begins 19:19
See Gaby’s entire gastric sleeve operation click here … 27:08
Gaby wakes up. Now it is time for Sayra’s bypass operation 30:37
What type of surgical tools are used? 33:58
See Sayra’s entire operation click here … 36:53
How are tools sterilized? 38:27
Gaby leaves recovery and returns to her room 44:37

Day Two
Gaby’s leak test 46:14
Sayra meets with the Nutritionist for the Post-Op Diet 48:53
Gaby and Sayra walk to remove gasses from the operation 49:45

Day Three
Gaby’s staples and drain tube are removed. Wound care instructions to be followed at home are provided 49:58
Sayra gets her leak test 54:26
Gaby and her husband leave the hospital.
Interview with Gaby 57:08

Day Four
Sayra’s staples are removed and she receives instructions to be followed from home.
Sayra’s interview 01:00:40

Three months later… 01:03:47