When Douglas Miller, an ex-pat living in Guadalajara, Mexico, began having light chest pains, he consulted a cardiologist who quickly suggested a heart catheterization to determine the cause. According to friend Kerri Moon, Douglas was told in no uncertain terms that he needed surgery immediately. “[We] made the call [to SkyMed] together upon first hearing the […]
An ex-pat in beautiful Lake Chapala, Mexico, SkyMed Champion Keith McKalip was enjoying a pickleball game when he went “too far” for the ball and ended up with a broken clavicle. Keith was taken to the hospital in Ajijic, where the doctor took an X-ray and stabilized him. “The next day, I saw an orthopedic […]
Extending for 190 miles along the coastline of the famed Mexican Pacific, the Riviera Nayarit is rapidly gaining a reputation as the coolest destination in Mexico—and rightly so. Its combination of natural and manmade beauty—liberally sprinkled with art, culture and a culinary tradition all its own—is drawing everyone from celebrities and socialites to multi-generational […]
SkyMed Champions Ray and Joella Paquette were enjoying their ex-pat life in Mazatlán, Mexico, when Ray suffered a heart attack in November 2019. He was taken to the Sharp Hospital Mazatlán, where the doctors determined he needed cardiac surgery. They successfully implanted three stents in Ray’s heart, but unfortunately in the ICU he began […]
On January 6, 2019, as my husband and I were walking to a friend’s house for dinner, I slipped and fell and hurt my right arm and shoulder. Long story, short version, I eventually went to the Unimed Clinic in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico for evaluation. The X-ray showed a fracture below the head […]
My wife, Diane, was very sick with pneumonia here in Barra de Navidad, Mexico. I took her to a hospital in Manzanillo and shortly after she went into a coma. The doctor said she had a massive stroke and would not come out of it, but thank God, they were wrong. A day later she […]
