I hadn’t heard of CSF Surgery before, I think a lot of people haven’t, and that’s the saddest part of this whole situation.
Dr. Mensik in The Practice told me about CSF Surgery. I was going through serious health problems and couldn’t wait; I don’t have health insurance and I was paying for everything in cash.
CSF Surgery was not even in my sight until this moment. I found out about the program, and I told my brothers, and their comments were: “There is no way that is true, I hope you did not spend money because it has to be a scam.” So, my brothers went to CSF Surgery, and they returned to me, and they said, “This is incredible, this is unbelievable.” Dr. Enriquez agreed to see me on a day when he was not accepting new patients.
The line of how fast everything moved from then on depended solely on me, in ordering all my things and finances. I was preparing for the worst and praying for the best. I believe in my humble opinion, that the best has been demonstrated, and I found in CSF people that I had not realized still exist, characters of honor, a willingness to do something exceptional for their fellow neighbor; It gave me enough confidence to move on and then prepare for the fight. I have never given up on anything in my life and thought “I’m not going to give up on myself.” But honestly, I was on that edge where you face mortality and for a brief moment when they first told me what was happening “cancer”, I thought I would not live, but the confidence that the doctor gave me was amazing, I mean, reset your spirit every time.
I honestly thought the cost of the surgery was going to be astronomical, before coming to CSF I did research the cost of colon resection surgery and all the ups and downs it could be. This surgery was in the $150,000.00, I would have had to sell almost everything I have. That was heartbreaking, the health problem was going to tear me to pieces. With CSF the cost came to much less than ten percent of that. I think it was something like $12,000.00. Nobody believed me: “It can’t be done, you’re crazy, there’s no way.” And I said, “It’s happening.” Everyone got curious, I said, “keep in touch with me and I’ll tell you how it goes.” Now everyone asks me, “Hey, how did it go? What were the results? How do you feel?” and I say, “I feel good.” I am incredibly satisfied with the service in the hospital, the nurses at Memorial Hospital were phenomenal, incredible individual attention.
Here I am today, maybe a month has passed, and I’m up and moving, deciding everything is going to be okay. I am looking forward to meeting the oncologist. I’m up for battle, and I don’t think I would be if it weren’t for you, CSF. The best choice I made was to walk through your doors and I can’t stress enough how many people should be walking through the doors of CSF Surgery because I know, I lived it, it’s as if you were little angels. My brothers do nothing but talk about you and be your advocates.
When I met Dr. Enriquez, I was blessed to meet a very, very high-quality person. I couldn’t give you enough credit or flattery to tell you how much I respect you and appreciate everything you have done for me, there are no words for that. Money is inconsequential when it comes to being around this time next year. How do you find a surgeon with this level of competence? God, it’s really a blessing. My blessing was that my doctor knew Dr. Enriquez, he knew the way to lead me to him. I was with Dr. Mensik for years, and when this happened, I was where I needed to be.
At the beginning of all this everyone thought it was too good to be true, that there was no way it could be real, the fact is that now my brothers eat their words. The old adage, “if it’s too good to be true, it mustn’t be true” doesn’t apply to CSF, CSF is too good to be true but it’s too true is so good, to a degree you can’t even describe.
– Jerome (Gino)
