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.Can Sara Repurpose Her Career? Part 3 of 4 #097
Marc’s Update - Pulling the Plug and Moving to Mexico #096
Marc & Mark Answer Your LinkedIn Questions #095
Can Sara Repurpose Her Career? Part 2 of 4 #094
Can Sarah Repurpose Her Career? Part 1 of 4 #093
Dawn Graham on Switching Careers #092
Marc Miller News on the Move to Ajijic, Mexico #091
Can Juan Repurpose His Career? Part 4 of 4 #090
Jeanne Yocum — The Self-Employment Survival Guide #089
Can Juan Repurpose His Career? Part 3 of 4 #088
From Covering Floors to Covering Life Stories. With Mike O’Krent. #087
Marc Miller on the Move to Ajijic, Mexico #086
Denise King with Marc Miller at the “Escape the Corporate World, Now Summit” #085
Can Juan Repurpose His Career? Part 2 of 4 #084
Can Juan Repurpose His Career? Part 1 of 4 #083
Workplace Futurist and Agile Career Expert Marti Konstant #082
Marc & Mark Answer Your Career Pivot Questions #081
Carol Fishman Cohen CEO and Co-Founder of iRelaunch #080
Marc Miller’s Continuing Plans for the Move to Mexico #079
Jonathan Rauch, Author of The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50 #078
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