Getting old and taking pills to make your body work better.

I have thought about this much as I grow older. You get a problem, you try to figure it out yourself, or go to the doctor 💊 pills, tests, or specialist. This seems the way it goes when you get older. I'm beginning to not want to go to the Dr, for a few reasons. 

I 🤔 think, can I solve this myself? Is it worth seeing a Dr? What's he going to do? Is it going to improve my life, or tie me down to Dr appointments every month? 

Then is my medical condition going to hold me back from traveling? Will it cost too much to go? Will I be grounded due to ???

Should I just live with what I have and avoid telling the Dr, the insurance company, everyone? 

As life goes on I realized that first it isn't getting easier, prettier, or better in many ways. Freedom to move about was my dream in our old age, and covid along with the restrictions the people in charge of our governments and health department instiduded on us changed travel immensely. 

So my reaction was, where can we go? What can we do? We went north as far as we could when boarders we're closed. Forward to now, boarders open and away we go again.

 Well I'm here now in Mexico, and happily walking the beach 🏖️ in my shorts going merrily about my way. I know my knee hurts, am I going to try for a knee replacement like the Dr said I would need? Lol not likely, as that would put the brakes on for sure. 

I'd have to stay in BC waiting for an appointment to see a specialist, then an appointment for knee replacement, then time to heal. You know what I say to that! So what then? 

Our government medical restrictions are not friendly to travel. 6 months away, 7 in BC if you ask, once every year. Then you have to return for 6 months before you can go again. If you want you can apply to go away for 2 years, if you return anytime during that 2 year stint, it's finished, and you can't get another 2 years for 5 years. I don't understand why this is setup like this, but I do know it is. 

So now I'm thinking where can I get good health care outside BC that will let me travel? 

Why should we have to evacuate our country to get health care that will allow us to travel freely in our old age? Seems kinda screwy to me. But, that is the way it is. Am I going to try to change it? LoL 😆 not likely, the snowbird association has been trying to for years, no luck! 

So what to do? I'm looking into Mexico to have my full-time medical insurance in. Does this make sense? Work & live in a first world 🌎 country (as it seems to be called) all my life, then go to a third world country (and looking around I think Mexico is) to get health care that will give me better options to travel? 

I gotta laugh 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 to myself now,

just hang on I'ma gonna give a good laugh. 

This seems re-dick-ul-ass. What a terrible joke they play on us. Freedom 😝 I'm not sure we really have it. We can walk away from our country, then we'll be free? I didn't intend to head down this rabbit hole 🕳️ when I started writing, but here I am. 

I'm going fishing 🎣, I just can't think too much about this kinda crap. I do a little at a time, till I get frustrated, then I close the book and do what pleases me. 😃 Until my wandering mind picks up on the subject again. I'm sure more to come on this later.for now the fish🐟🐠! Lol