I'd like to contact PS2006

Hi, there. I haven't been checking in with this board much, so I've only just now seen your note.

Do you have a question or something?

Hi there, ;-)

I'm glad to here from you! Its about Ray Kanodia....I'm going to have rhinoplasty from him and I come from very far. From Holland. So I would like to have some information from you about the hotels and that kind of stuff.

I hope to hear from you. I would really appreciate that :-D

Me

P.s I read your posts and I thought that you are the right person to help me.

Sorry, I live here, so I don't know what would be a good hotel. You should ask the Doctor's office. I know they offer a hotel stay package (with nurse checking in on you), but it costs extra. It would make the follow-up visits easier since you'd be right there.

But in any case, Dr. Kanodia has a lot of people flying in from all over to get surgery done by him, so check with his staff on what places they recommend as most convenient to the office.

Good luck!

HI guest (I assume you are Ps200) :-D

First af all, thank you very much for your reply and taking time to answer my questions. I read that you had rhino from him and did you also stay in a hotel??? Where is his office? I mean I know the adress but not the exact please. Is it a busy street? How about the privacy?

I know these are a lot of questions but I really appreciate you answering them. For me travelling to La is very drastic because I live in a small town here in Holland. I don't know what to expect.....

Me

Yes, it is PS2006 -- but my log-on didn't take.

I did get surgery from Dr. Kanodia, but I live nearby to Beverly Hills and just had my sister drive me to and from the surgery -- and watch me for the couple of days you need someone checking on you. So I didn't stay in a hotel. Maybe that was one of Dr. Raj's other patients?

sorry for the misunderstanding...

I think I read what I wanted to read :-D Now looking at your posts I see it clear. Sorry!

Can you still answer a couple pf questions for me. I hope you will.

Is Kanodia's office in a very busy street our do you have a kind of privacy.

Sorry again for my questions :-P

Downtown Beverly Hills is always kinda populated. But the building itself has it's own parking garage, so you never have to be out on the street. On the second level of the parking garage, there's about four spaces specifically reserved for patient pick-up and drop off. To park for a few hours at the garage has a fee (maybe $20), but the pick-up/drop-off spots might be 30 minute free parking for patients, but I can't remember (my sister handled this).

In any case, those four spaces are right next to the elevator, and the elevator goes right up to eight floor, which is entirely dedicated to the surgery center. So you're never really out in public. Just get a hooded sweatshirt (all shirts must zip or button up the front, including the one you wear in and the ones you'll wear for a few days, as you can't be pulling anything over your head.) If the hood is pretty big, you can kind of pull it forward to feel a little bit more hidden (even if you can't really see well if you do that) because you can rely on your helper person to lead the way. You CANNOT try to wear sunglasses after surgery for quite a while.

As far as who might see you. The surgery center has its own entrance and exit, so anyone waiting for consultations in the office or whatever will never see you. They also try to split up days so that surgeries and consultations don't happen on the same day, so there shouldn't be anyone else there besides people who are also getting surgery that day or who are family members or friends of people also going through the same thing. So, as you are leaving, the next person might see you.

Then, there's a chance that someone else might ride down in the elevator with you -- from another floor. But it's mostly a surgery building, so if there is someone else in the elevator, they're likely a past, current, or future patient themselves, or at least a friend or relative of someone getting surgery, or could be nurses, attendancts, or other people associated somehow with surgery, so they're discreet and won't be staring. Your helper person (sister, mom, friend, whoever), can help guide you to stand near the back of the elevator, so that anyone else in it won't seem to be looking right at you. The elevator doors are not mirrored, so people standing in front of you in the elevator won't be able to see you in your pulled-forward hoodie.

Then there's the few feet in the parking garage from the elevator to the car once down in the garage -- only the parking attendants and any car that happens to be driving up to higher levels to park might see you. But parking attendants are seeing people with nose-casts (and other surgery evidence) every day, so they're used to it and won't stare. If they happen to look, they're probably just trying to see if you're a celebrity hiding under the hoodie. Anyone driving in is likely to be a past, current, or future patient or somehow associated with the kind of thing you're doing anyway. (Plus, plastic surgery doesn't surprise anyone in Beverly Hills anyway.)

So, maybe a couple people in the elevator, a parking attendant or two, and maybe someone driving to a higher level might catch a glimpse of you with your nose bandaged. You still feel really exposed for those few seconds, because you feel so obvious in the bandaging. You'll also still be a little groggy from the anesthesia, so those few seconds you feel exposed will also feel a little disorienting -- like you're trying to "understand" how best to be discreet, but it's all so bizarre and confusing you just want to hide -- so rely on your helper person (gal pal, mom, sister, whoever) to lead the way and take care of you.

The only other times it feels weird is after you've left the building: on the road on the drive home (or to the hotel in your case) -- if you pull up to a stop light, the car next to you seems like they might look over. But if you're concerned about that, ask your helper person to remember to roll a towel up in your car window for the ride home (and similarly for the ride back in for the follow-up visit, though you should be awake and much more alert for the follow-up.) The walk from the car to to the house (or hotel) just keep hiding in the hoodie and rely on your helper to lead you if you've pulled it down far enough that you can't see much.

Good luck! I'm so glad I got the surgery!

Oh, the office is in downtown Beverly Hills at 414 N. Camden. Camden Drive runs parallel to the famed Rodeo Drive -- and is one blocks away from Rodeo. On TV when they show people shopping in Beverly Hills -- at Tiffany's for example -- they are showing the area that's about a block and half away at the corner of N. Rodeo and Dayton. (If you look on an internet map, you'll see a little curved part of the street right at the corner N. Rodeo and Dayton.) So the office is in the heart of "90210."

Because N. Camden is a one-way street the easiest way to get there is to come on Wilshire, then from Wilshire, turn northwest onto N. Camden drive. The office will be on the right side of the street as you're heading northwest. You'll be able to see the street-facing entrance of the building with it's big "414" street number on it, and immediately after that is the driveway to enter the parking garage. The parking garage is actually the three floors of the 414 N. Camden building.

Ps2006, Thank you so much!

You gave me so much information and its very usefull. :-P

I wil just get tru the surgery and I trust Kanoda because he is the best.....

I'm glad that your surgery turned out to be fine, I hope mine will also turn out to be fine ;-)

Thank you so much and I will keep you updated..... :-D

Me