In this week’s episode, I want to discuss Navigating the Emotional Roller Coaster of My Wife's Heart Surgery. I will keep this short but I want you to understand the strategies I am using to reduce risk and more importantly keep my sanity.
For new listeners, my wife and I have lived in Ajijic Mexico which is in the State of Jalisco only a short distance south of Guadalajara, the 2nd largest city in Mexico and the home of a number of the country’s best medical schools.
Health care here on the private side is mostly frictionless. Access to the private healthcare system is easy and affordable. The same cannot be said about the public healthcare system and I will put a link in the show notes when I discussed the public healthcare system in a previous episode.
To see a specialist, you usually can schedule an appointment in less than 2 weeks and often much faster than that. Recently, I went to schedule my annual skin check with my dermatologist, and I was able to secure an appointment for the next day. My doctor was not rushed and spent well over 30 minutes with me. Past appointments have lasted up to an hour. The cost was about $60 US. That was not a copay but the total cost.
I am far more likely to see my doctors and in between appointments I can call or text them via WhatsApp. If I have a question I will text them and usually I will get a response in a few hours directly from the doctor.
My wife has real relationships with all of her doctors, which includes a hematologist, endocrinologist, dermatologist, gastroenterologist, and now a cardiologist. My wife being a retired RN is a total pain in the butt patient and she loves her doctors here.
That sets the stage for this story.
This episode is sponsored by Career Pivot. Check out the Career Pivot Community, and be sure to pick up my latest book, Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd Half of Life Third Edition.
For the full show notes and resources mentioned in the episode click here.Purpose and a Paycheck with author Chris Farrell #117
Marc & Susan Answer Your Job Search Questions #116
An Expat Pivots to Selling Health Insurance Solutions in Ajijic #115
An Introvert’s Guide to Making Connections That Count #114
The Career Pivot Multi-generational Workplace Workshop Part 3 #113
The Career Pivot Multi-generational Workplace Workshop Part 2 #112
The Career Pivot Multi-generational Workplace Workshop Part 1 #111
2018 Repurpose Your Career Podcast Listener Survey Results and Plans for 2019 #110
Elizabeth White on Being Fifty-Five, Underemployed, and Faking Normal #109
Encore Episode: A New Career Change, Years in the Making. With Elizabeth Rabaey #108
Dr. Lynn Marie Morski Tells Us How to Quit #107
The Millers Move to Mexico #106
Susan Joyce of Job-Hunt.org on Searching Proactively for a Job #105
Marc Announces the New Edition of Repurpose Your Career #104
Marc & Mark Answer Your Job Search Questions #103
Michael O’Brien — Shifting with Purpose #102
Bob McIntosh — How to Use LinkedIn to Find Your Next Job #101
Marc’s Wife Lotus and Her Observations on Moving to Ajijic #100
Jeanne Yocum — Pricing Your Services — How to Get it Right #099
Can Sara Repurpose Her Career? Part 4 of 4 #098
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