Category Archives: Survivor Stories

Testimonial: SkyMed Member Suffers Fall, Flown from Mexico to Miami for Surgery

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  Dr. John Gough & Marcia Owen San Miguel, Mexico As an ex-patriate living in Mexico, I am pleased to offer my experience with SkyMed. In September 2016 (three months after my enrollment) I suffered a fall with fractured head of the humerus, and a radical tear of my rotary cuff, including rupture of the […]


Testimonial: Member Calls SkyMed to Get Back to the US; Avoids Colostomy

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Kathleen Phelps Puerto Vallarta, Mexico I joined SkyMed right before I turned 65 because I knew I would need to get to the US to use my Medicare. Two years ago, I awoke with a pain in my lower left side. I thought if I ignored it, it would just go away, but it just got […]


Testimonial: Member has Stroke in Left Eye Flies from San Miguel to ATL for Evaluation

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Max & Alice Neufeld San Miguel, Mexico On December 31, 2015 my wife and I became members of the SkyMed Program. In June of 2016 I suffered a mild stroke in my left eye. It was diagnosed and treated here in San Miguel. The diagnosis revealed that the cause of the stroke was due to […]


Testimonial: Badly Broken Shoulder From Fall In Innsbruck, Austria

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SkyMed and GLOBAL members Nolger and Rosa Lemke were some 5,000 miles away from their home in Canada enjoying a planned hiking tour in the mountains of Austria when Rosa fell and broke her shoulder. After walking twenty minutes to a mountain hut Rosa was helicoptered to a local hospital and told she would need […]


Testimonial: Member Airlifted from Mexico to New York

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Daniel & Sheryl Malin Clarkston, Michigan ~ This was a life saver ~ Our testimonial on how Sky Med worked with our doctors here in Mexico and New York: Three weeks ago the unthinkable happened to Dan my husband.  It was like any other Thursday, we got up and left to go to Guadalajara for a […]


Testimonial: Canadian with Heart Problems in AZ Flown Home to Hospital in CAN

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Joseph Sweeney Alberta, Canada My husband Joseph was having a hard time breathing and was admitted to Banner Hospital in Mesa, Arizona. Test results confirmed he was suffering from congestive heart failure and atrial fibrillation with a low oxygen level. His blood pressure was very high and a heart murmur was found. He also had […]