When we began our American Tour, we knew we would need to establish new doctor relationships somewhere in the lower 48. We picked Reno, NV as Boots’ son (John) and his family live within 90 miles. So, we have been poked, prodded, MRI’d, PET’d, sonogramed, and ‘-scoped’ for both yin and yang. We have a general practioner, optometrist, dermatologist, cardiologist, urologists, internist, etc, etc, etc. Both of us have good bills of health not that we don’t have some issues common with aging but over all we are healthy for women in their 60’s.
We have been very pleased with our doctors and both of the Reno hospitals/labs (St Mary and Renown) we have dealt with. We have experienced an interesting and seemingly usual behavior of these doctors. They are really good at listening / hearing what we have had to say and they call us personally with lab results as late as 6 or 7 pm. They don’t schedule appointments just to tell us everything was fine. They haven’t seemed to be interested in testing for testing sake. Since Boots is on Medicare and Ruthi has personal insurance (which is very minimal), the doctors/billing services have not treated either of us differently.
Well, there it is! For those of you that were hoping for a quick demise or early access to any few pennies we may left – it’s not going to happen very soon!!!
