Hello Tangerineys! Today we are finally telling you the story
of our second trip ever to the emergency room in Mexico. First of all, thank you to everyone who's
been following us on social media and sending us messages, comments, asking how he is. Thankfully, Jordan is doing a lot better and
we're still on like a very restrictive diet to try to keep all the health issues in check. But essentially today, we're going to be telling
you what the experience was like going to what turned out to be a private hospital,
seeing specialists, the costs involved in all of this, how much English and Spanish
there was, and everything in between. Alright, let's get into it. To sort of like lay the groundwork, Jordan
was experiencing some symptoms leading up to this big episode that he had that actually
took us to the hospital. We sort of both thought it was food-related,
like food allergies because it was only when he ate certain foods like wine would trigger
this, avocado sometimes and then his throat would feel like it was closing up a little
bit, or scratchy, or difficulty breathing, things like that. So, there was a little bit happening leading
up to this and eventually we just reached a tipping point. I feel like I need to put a gigantic disclaimer;
if you see this red rash on my chest, one; I’m not sunburned and two... well, actually
just one. I’m not sunburned, I don't know what this
is, I get this sometimes from heat rash, like when it's hot sometimes - and you just put
sunscreen right there. Yeah, I just put sunscreen here, so I’m
possibly reacting to the sunscreen or my body just likes to have random reactions for no
reason, so it could be that too. OK, so now that Jordan is done picking up
Laska's poop, how about you describe what happened the morning of - that you were feeling
and the symptoms how they like started amping up kind of? So, after having coffee that morning, we were
meeting one of our Patrons for breakfast and once I got there, I was not feeling well
at all, and I ended up going to the grocery store and buying an electrolyte water, hoping
that it was electrolytes that was making my head feel light and my arms tingle and my
legs tingle, but that didn't help and it just got worse. So then I’m - and breathing. Oh yeah, and I was having difficulty breathing. I wouldn't have done this if I didn't absolutely
think I had to and I was like "I need to go to the hospital right now where they can take
care of me if anything happens", like if I pass out or something because I felt like
I was very close to doing that. We ran to the car and hurried to the emergency
room which was just a few minutes away. Flying over topes, throwing caution to the
wind because Jordan was truly scared, I was scared. And so, we're on the way there, neither of
us know are we going to have to do this in Spanish or English because our Spanish is
coming along, thanks to Rocket Languages but specific medical words like that... It'll still
be a while before we can fully master those. So, then we got in there... I’m kind of freaking out at this point and
if you don't know a language very very very well, then you forget a lot in high stress
- And then you get flustered. Yeah yeah. This was stressful and scary. Yeah, in high-stress situations, you know
like 1/10 of what you actually know [Laughter], but I was able to explain, "I’m having trouble
breathing, I don't know all these words that I need to say", like I don't know the word
for lightheadedness, I don't know the word for various organs and I was wondering if
there's a doctor who speaks English and very quickly they hooked me up with a doctor and
she spoke English quite well although she wouldn't admit it. But before I went in with the doctor, they
took my vitals right away and I wasn't waiting more than a couple minutes to see the doctor
and she did a full exam after asking questions all about my medical history and things like
that. The very first test she ran was to determine
whether I might be diabetic or not, so she did a glucose test and also the same day she
did two blood tests, a urine tests... Any medications? I don't know that word. Medications? I'm only taking Benadryl. But nothing else and not always. Only sometimes when there's a reaction. When there are problems breathing. And the ultrasounds? Oh yeah yeah, and then they took me in with
a specialist to get an ultrasound and that took about a half hour. I have never had one of those done before. Basically they were looking at all of my internal
organs, seeing if they all looked OK, if they could see kidney stones, bladder stones,
anything like that. We got the test results back very quickly. That was something I was quite impressed with
in this whole visit is not only the facilities were really - looked like very modern and
everything like that, but they do all the tests in-house and they get you with a specialist
very quickly and all your blood tests and urine tests back within a couple hours which
is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced in the U.S.. Something else unique about this, they did
take Jordan’s vitals and we had the whole doctor's visit, they even did the glucose
test without payment, but as soon as it was time for the other things like blood tests
and the ultrasound and everything, then we had to go pay for those things before we had
them all done. So that's a little bit different I think than
in the U.S. usually you're paying after the fact. In the U.S. they won't even tell you the price
until afterwards. Yeah. We didn't know the price either but all of
this was like total - like panic situation. We would have paid anything to make sure Jordan
was OK. But something they told us though was that
for residents versus tourists or travelers, there's a big price difference. So, we were paying a significantly lower price
because we have temporary residency. You might be able to get the local price if
you're living within Mexico somewhere and you don't necessarily need temporary residency
or permanent residency as far as we could understand, but if you know, feel free to
let us know in the comments so other people can be more informed but they were asking
for like an electric bill or a lease or something, and so obviously with our temporary residency
card, we just showed them that and that was good to go. So, we came back about an hour later for the
test results; the blood test and the urine test and she was also going to go over the
ultrasound test with me because she had been talking to the ultrasound specialist and I
don't know what that doctor was called. This is actually the problem with not knowing
the Spanish words for all these, you would first have to know them in English, therein lies
the dilemma. There were times where she didn't know the
word in English and said it in Spanish and we were able to fill in the blanks, so that's
really comforting to know that we do have those abilities. If you are wanting to learn Spanish with Rocket Languages which is the program that we recommend above all others, they're actually having
a sale right now, so we'll put the link for that. You can even do a free trial before you buy
it, we'll put that down below in the description. Quick note; it is only for the first thousand
people and for four days, so if you are thinking about doing it, I would jump on it right now
because it's a very limited time sale and number sale, limited time number sale [Laughter]. All the tests pretty much came back negative. Or within normal range. Yeah yeah. Like it's the normal range. You don’t have anemia, the white cells are
in normal level. How's renal function? And the renal function, you are in range. It's working. The kidneys are working. There was a little bit of something weird
that they found with the ultrasound but they said it was probably something I was born
with and nothing that should affect me negatively. So then comes the fun part! Oh yes, yes. Jordan you're blushing, why are you blushing? [Laughter]. Then, he took his clothes off for another
woman!! [Laughter] they're like - "take your pants
off" - "you're getting a couple shots in the ass" [Laughter]. Say "butt," you can't say that! [Laughter] [Laughter] "You're getting a couple shots
in the buttocks". That’s exactly how they said it. One was a steroid to keep my breathe way,
what's that called? Airway? Airway [Laughter], my airway open for 24 hours,
making sure I wouldn't have difficulty breathing. And then another was - one of the medications
they were going to prescribe to me but they wanted that in my system immediately. Please don’t die, I don’t wanna go to
the hospital again. Been there too many times already. After getting the test results back, the doctors’
suspicions in the beginning that it was acid reflux related was kind of confirmed. You might think that acid reflux is nothing
serious but I actually don't think that's the case, it can actually have a lot of bad
side effects. In fact, if I remember right, acid reflux
or what they call GERD, G-E-R-D is one of the biggest killers in the U.S. behind like
heart disease and cancer. So with it looking strongly like it's acid
reflux [Laughter], basically what we had to do is completely do like a hard turn and change
diet up immediately; remove coffee, no more drinking margaritas, no spicy food, no processed
food, no foods high in fat - no dairy. And no dairy, yeah things like that - basically
I couldn't eat any of the good stuff [Laughter]. So we immediately just started making like
fresh raw salads... There's something on me... Whole foods, lots of produce, lots of greens,
things like that to calm down the symptoms or attempt to calm down the symptoms. They also asked you to sleep differently. Yeah, to sleep at an incline and favor of
my left side if I was going to sleep on my side. So, in addition to the diet changes, they
had us go pick up three different things from the pharmacy. I picked all those things up, started the
diet changes immediately and I was still struggling hardcore for several days to come. So, once we got the verdict sort of thing,
we just basically stayed at home so we could cook all of our own food and be in a stress-free
environment and be close to the hospital in case Jordan needed to go back which did end
up happening a few days later. He felt like he couldn't breathe at all and
again the same like tingly fingers and numbness, lightheadedness, so we hopped to right back
over there to see what was going on. And the other thing that made me
want to go back to the hospital immediately, that second time was I was feeling like I
was having a lot of trouble breathing and then I felt my heartbeat and it was super
irregular. This second emergency room visit, this is
on a Sunday now and it turns out going on a Sunday is more expensive than going on any
other day probably because they're paying the employees more. So, what did they do this time? It was a different doctor, so I had to catch
her up. Unfortunately, she didn't speak as good of
English as the first doctor. But fortunately, she did speak English. Yes, yes. She started off by saying "I don’t
speak English very well", and then proceeded to basically be fluent in English [laughter]. Yeah. So, we went over history again, what we did
the last time, and the only test that was run the second time was an electrocardiogram or
an EKG to look at my heartbeat and see what was going on with that. And it only took a
couple minutes. With those results, she was able to confirm
that there were some irregularities in my heartbeat, both in pace and speed. So, then she's like "i think you should see
a cardiologist immediately". They were able to set up an appointment for
me, just a few hours later it was this cardiologist who was coming from Cozumel to Playa del Carmen
who I guess goes back and forth from those two places all the time. A few hours later, we were in Playa meeting
with the cardiologist. Something quite different than the U.S. was
seeing these specialists so quickly. Like seeing a cardiologist the same day was
just like - I mean, wild to me. Back in the U.S. when I had to go to specialists
and go to doctors’ visits all the time trying to figure out what was wrong with me, it could
take three months to see a specialist. Like that would be their first availability,
so this was really cool. We're in Playa del Carmen, the cardiologist
shows up and he has the best English of any of them. So I was like "oh, thank goodness". He did his wizardry magic on me, ran some
tests to determine whether there was something wrong with my heart. The appointment was maybe 30 or 45 minutes
long and by the end of it, he was convinced that there was absolutely nothing wrong with
my heart, the lower speed at which my heart was beating was not abnormal for my age and
physical activity level. And that the irregular heartbeat, like the irregular intervals, that
was - I forget the name of it but there was some condition that was very common, often
was onset by caffeine. So, it's something he'd seen all the time
and didn't seem to be worried about it at all. Thankfully that was basically it for the hospital
and doctor's visits. I still wasn't feeling that well, my symptoms
had improved a little bit at this point. Something that was super unique was we got
the cell number of every doctor that we saw. I’ve never gotten this cell phone number,
I haven't been able to text my doctor ever, ever in my life. That was pretty cool to be able to keep in
touch with them and like for example, with my first doctor, I felt like I might be having
some side effects from one of the medications, so I texted her wondering if it's okay to
get off of that one and she said yes that should be fine. And all of the doctors were communicating
with each other on your behalf. Oh yeah yeah, that was something else I was
super nice about it. If we got this same treatment in the U.S.,
we would probably be in medical debt for sure, absolutely. Forever [Laughter]. Forever. Funny but not funny. OK, so now for the prices; just keep in mind
that these are the resident prices, so if you were not a resident, just a traveler or
a tourist, it would be more expensive. We're not exactly sure how much more expensive. So, the initial visit when we first went in to the ER, it was two hundred and fifty pesos for the consult itself. The glucose test only cost twenty nine pesos. And the organ ultrasound was 1,433 pesos. The urine analysis and blood tests, all of
those that they did, so there were multiple than like a whole long list, that was 1,698
pesos. And those super fun shots that they gave you... 57 pesos. Three prescriptions that they prescribed and
then later the one prescription that the cardiologist prescribed were 828 pesos and 336 pesos. And the cardiologist visit, that was 800 pesos. For whatever reason, we had to pay cash for
that one because he was coming into the office or he's like a guest at that hospital... A contractor or something. Something like that. We were able to pay with a credit card for
everything else though. So, total, we're looking at 6,402 pesos. Given all that went into this, and how fast
we got test results back, and how modern the facilities were, all the doctors spoke English,
and everything involved and also that it's a private hospital, I’m - I’m surprised.
Honestly. That it wasn't more. I thought it was going to be more. But I would give these whole experience five
stars. All of these doctors were super confident
and these hospitals were clean, well-maintained, new equipment, just as good if not better
than what you would find in the U.S. Hopefully we covered all the information that you guys
were looking for out of this video. If not though, if you have any other questions,
leave them down below as a comment. We're also going to link on the end screen
to our previous visit that we at an ER also with Jordan because he seems to really like
going to hospitals... And that was at a public hospital that time,
totally different experience. But anyway, thank you guys for watching this
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