**Sorry if I sent this a few times, it just doesn't seem to be going throughplease let me know if it is (anyone) Lori, as far as an equivalent to medicare or medicaid, there is nothingreally like it, at least the quality of the care you get sucks, I don't knowfrom experience but I've heard stories, besides it's like an insurance you have when you are working, otherwise I guess you would have to have a private insurance which would provide better quality care. Honestly, I don't even go for medical attention, if I ever do I use alternative medicine,there is a lot of that here, I use to see a homeopathic doctor and he helped me a lot with my UTI's and other issues. I'm considering tryingmagnet therapy now, I've heard great things about it and also want togo back to my homeopathic doctor.As far as dental care, I highly recommend coming down to TJ, there aresome very good doctors and it's really cheap compared to the US. Almosteveryone speaks english down here, especially doctors, so I wouldn't worryabout language barrier. Lissette Whitehead 1177 Broadway Suite #4 Chula Vista, CA 91911 www.lissettesgoaltowalk.synthasite.com www.lwgripgloves.com
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 18:25:16 -0700 Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Cold to the Bone From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Thanks for the reply! About a year ago or so I posted a rhetorical question to the list. Or rather a peculiar commentary. And that being that I am surprised that there are not more people from other countries on the list. Besides the United States, there is one member from the UK and one member from South America and that's about it. So, even though you are very close to the US... you are still in another country so you would be the third person that I know of on the list OUTSIDE of the US. How is medical care there? Regarding hospitals, home health care, etc. There are numerous people who go over the border into Mexico for cheaper medical procedures done and/or dental. That would be something my husband and I would consider but ONLY if we had a great deal of Spanish under our belt OR had someone very close to us know the language, etc. One further question... a big topic discussed here now and then is what Medicaid and Medicare covers. How does that work down there for you? Of course you cannot have Medicaid or Medicare since that is the United States programs so what is there in comparison to it or what do you do specifically? Thanks in advance! Lori C 4/5 complete Quad, 31 years post Tucson Arizona On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Lissette Whitehead <[email protected]> wrote: I am hispanic Lori, my mom is Mexican and my dad is from the USA, and I have lived in Mexico for most of my life we are so close to the border though, so we go back and forth all the time :) Lissette Whitehead www.lissettesgoaltowalk.synthasite.com www.lwgripgloves.com Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 11:37:37 -0700 Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Cold to the Bone From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Wow Lissette ... I didn't realize you were from Mexico! Have you lived there your whole life? Are you Hispanic? Lori On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Lissette Whitehead <[email protected]> wrote: I totally agree with Lori, and I am a big wimp too when it comes to cold weather. I live in Rosarito Beach Mexico, just south of California and it's been way colder than usual and I just want this to be over, it really makes me wonder how all you people in way colder places do it. What keeps me warmest is wearing a wool sweater with a feather filled jacket on top and of course a scarf and a hat, oh and my ugg boots, it's the only way I go out in winter, at home I always have my space heater and sleep with my down comforter (sometimes doubled) and a couple more blankets on top. Happy New Year everyone! Lissette Whitehead www.lissettesgoaltowalk.synthasite.com www.lwgripgloves.com Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 15:24:03 -0700 Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Cold to the Bone From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected] Dave, Bobbie and others ... Both Greg and I are FROM colder, blah states and, having said that, the COLD just really really bothers us. Ruins entire days. Now we live in the highest temped state (besides Death Valley areas in CA) and have become wimps when the temp goes below a certain number. OR without that number and without sunshine warmth. Putting on more clothes (for me) doesn't help. Didn't help me in the northeast either. I too get that awful "ice water running through my veins" feeling in my arms and legs. For me, the only things that do work are direct warm sunlight, sitting by a roaring fire or space heater. Or getting in bed and under a sheet, a wool blanket and a quilt for 3-4 hours warms me up to be "comfortable." But, like Greg ... unless my body warms up enough to keep comfortable ... leaving the sunlight or space heater makes it worse for obvious reasons. Nothing like an SCI to screw up a body thermostat. :-( If anyone asked/asks me WHAT I HATE the most in life ... it's getting cold. Cuz once I'm cold ... I can't enjoy anything in life. Not reading, watching a movie or anything. Hey Greg -- even Dave has been uncomfortably cold indoors over the last few days with the chilly days we've had. RARE. But he warms up easily with more clothes or moving around by being able-bodied. We had ice form in a scooped outdoor seat night before last. Yesterday morning Dave went out with our doggie at 9AM finding he couldn't sit there! First real-cold winter days in a long time. Last year we had a buncha rain. Don't want to see our gas bill when we get it. We put our thermostat at 72 degs in this house - not as warm as other years. The whole country has had a bad frigid spell of late. 7 dead in MO, IL, an AR from the cold (I think I read yesterday). We got down to 21 degrees here a couple nights -- rare. Sunny and mid 60s today! Forecast a tad warmer each day. Lori On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 9:04 AM, greg <[email protected]> wrote: I just don't know how you north and east guys can do it, living in such cold places. Down in the Phx area we only get a few drops into freezing temps and it has been miserable. I had my house at 78, plus a space heater blasting me, while drinking hot drinks all day, and I just could not get warm. (Though I think it's better not to use the space heater because once I move away from the blowing hot air, I get even colder.) Once I get cold I tighten up into 1 clinched muscle and whenever I stretch out my fingers it causes excess tingling up my forearms. It's that tingling that is a burning, cold, ice-water, feeling. Northing I can do to get it to go away until I sleep for the night. I always have that tingling, but after stretching it get crazy bad. If I relax and lift my shirts a bit, I can feel the heat coming off my body, but I still am shaking. I know by evening time my shoulders are sore and that can make me feel cold too, so when it's cold out it multiplies things. Not being able to sit and relax my muscles in the sun is a big part of the problem, I usually spend hours outside. Good luck to you all who are freezing too! Greg -- Lori Age - 46 C4/5 complete quad, 31 years post Tucson, AZ -- Lori Age - 46 C4/5 complete quad, 31 years post Tucson, AZ -- Lori Age - 46 C4/5 complete quad, 31 years post Tucson, AZ
