Monday, October 8, 2007

The end of the tunnel....

...is at Sam's Club! And Walmart! Oh frabjous day! Shopping! Saturday we walked all over and bought produce, canned tomato soup, and tons of paper goods. Then we came home and I disinfected, peeled, sliced and put away. Mona is relieved of her duties keeping me fed, and we are set! Or at least I am. I'm feeling good enough that Larry is returning to the States this Thursday to take that motorcycle ride he had to postpone when we headed back south. How about THAT???

We also stopped by Amerimed Hospital to say hello to the many friends I made there. When we parked it was right by the emergency entrance. I KNOW what the other end of THAT tunnel looks like. I had a room right at the end of it. That's where tourists who over-do their fun or traffic accident victims get put back together again. I spoke with the guy who was in the room next to me for a while. He had come in with his arm practically severed from falling through a plate glass window. I'd heard the ruckus a few nights before. He was in awe of the surgical talent and the treatment he'd benefitted from. He was going to have total use of his hand and arm.

It's a very small hospital (six patient rooms) and just 11 years old. It was started by an American doctor who came on a traffic accident, rendered aid on the scene, and found that the care he had given was all the trauma care available at the time in PV. Those days are long gone.

OK, I write. Lots of people just don't, like the guy with the arm. He just didn't strike me as someone who would write a testimonial. And Mexicans won't ask for one. But it's a story that needs telling. Too often I hear a kind of dismissive sneer from people north of the border asking about Mexican health care, as though the term were an oxymoron. As if, as if! Please don't get me started. . .

It was my pleasure to write a testimonial to the care I received from Dr. Carlos Olivares (gastroenterological surgeon) and Dr. Fernando Marquez and all the good people at Amerimed. You can find it on a new website: Health Travel Guides. And it should appear shortly on the Amerimed website, as well.

It's kind of long and detailed. Written about nine days ago from inside the tunnel. A story I'm not going to post here...'cause I am OUT of that tunnel and dancing in the light.

1 comment:

Kate said...

so grateful the tunnel led you back out to us again...we have much partying to do sister/friend...

i love you...am grateful that the call of walmart and sam's club gives you joy...sad that I am not there with you to squeeze the melons and do some sample tasting in the chocolate aisle....

I am truly grateful that we are in each other's lives...hugs and kisses...Kate