Susy Wilson

Panchos definitely have them. The ones at Costco here seem like they need to be baked longer:/

Not really into country or Johnny usually but I love this🙂 Saw 9 Inch Nails once....didn't think I would enjoy it so much but they were seriously fabulous and I have been a big fan ever since:-)

According to my night sky app they should appear basically overhead here at our lakeside location and around the Leo and Leo minor constellations. Best time to view is supposed to be from midnight to 4AM on Sun, Mon. Lots of night light around here but it is a new moon so at least that won't be working against you:-) If you are a star gazer the Night Sky app for your phone is really great:-)

Absolutely:)

We are interested. I know you get mail there but can you send mail to the US from there as well? If so we are in and would love to share a box with you!

I loved the drive using the Mascota highway but my husband hated it:/ The brakes on our Ram 3/4 diesel pickup over heated and we had to sit for a while to let them cool off. Still so much better drive than the craziness it is currently the other way:/

I have been looking for a hatchet to split small wood for my wood fired pizza oven with no results yet either:/ I also checked the new Home Depot with no luck. Anyone know of anyplace here for one?

I injured my left knee while providing my moms end of life care in June and it was causing me a great deal of grief so I went to an orthopedic physician in Oregon. My insurance was not the best so they proposed first a steroid injection in my knee, then if that didn't work a hyaluronic acid injection. If that didn't work the insurance would pay for an MRI. I decided to wait until I was back in Mexico to deal with it on my own at my own expense. I went to Dr. Gabriel Martinez Sandoval who is at Quality Care on Wednesdays. He had more xrays taken and gave me a referral for an MRI in Guadalajara at Grupo Rio Laboratorio. Got the MRI and it showed 2 meniscal tears and an ACL tear. He suggests arthroscopic surgery and I am not yet sure if I will get it done or not as my knee no longer hurts so I am on the fence about surgery. The intent of my post is to show the cost of these procedures. The first visit with Dr. Martinez was $900 pesos, about $43 US dollars. The x-ray he wanted was $670 pesos, about $32 US. The MRI cost was $6700 pesos, about $320 US. If I decide to have the arthroscopic surgery the full cost at his clinic as an outpatient is $45,000 pesos, about $2140 US dollars and if I have surgery in a hospital setting it would be $60,000 pesos, about $2850 US dollars. Another lady I know had a full knee replacement with him last winter in Guadalajara at a hospital with a couple of weeks of managed care and therapy before she could return home and her cost for that surgery was approximately $7000 US, around $147500 pesos just as an FYI. Total cost of diagnosis and potential arthroscopic surgery is $53270 pesos or $2535 US dollars. So many people post questions about the cost of medical care here so I just thought I would post my experience with it so far.

The lab I had my MRI done in gave me a DVD with the full scan on it as well as 171 separate images so a US Dr. would easily be able to use them. They did have numerous English speaking technicians and receptionists there as well just as an FYI.

Well.....since the OP is in the US, will be visiting the area for one week, mentioned the out of pocket expense they would have to pay in US dollars in the US, it seemed that giving them the figure in US dollars might be helpful. Perhaps you could have converted it for them if you take issue with it.....gosh really!

I had an MRI of my knee 2 weeks ago......obviously a totally different MRI......but the cost was $240 US at a lab in Guadalajara and they have the 3.0 tesla magnetic field set up. I am sorry but I don't know the expense for the MRI of the inner ear. If you find the doctor you want to see they will be able to tell you the cost of that specific procedure I am sure.

The only info I have is that I went to Sandra's office and said I needed internet. At the time when we first moved here I thought it was "the" TelCel office which of course it was not. She and her husband have a small office and they live behind it. I did not see a flyer or anything. I pay her directly and I pay in advance a few months so I don't have to worry about it. I write it on my calendar and note when I have to pay again. I don't have to wait at the big TelCel office ever. I bought my neighbors daughter an Iphone 8 last week from her even. That really is all I know but you can call her and get the information straight from her. Sandra's number is 33 1215 8390. You can tell her I told you about the service as I know at least 4 other people that have gotten it from her after I told them about what I am using. As you can see my name is Susy:-) Sorry I don't have more information:/

I have been using TelCel's wireless modem or router...what ever it is, for about 7 months. It is better than no internet and most of the time I can stream netflix or hulu or Amazonprime video but occasionally in the evenings it is too slow to stream. I use it with a NordVPN that comes with my Norton antivirus package. I got mine from Sandra at the small TelCel office just west of El Torrito and occasionally I have to call her to do some sort of reset and then I am good to go again. She is very nice about it.....I only call her during business hours if it is not working but she says I can call anytime I have problems nonetheless. I gave a friend one of the modems and she lives in Puerto Corona, across the lake from Ajijic, just east of San Louis Soyutlan and it works for her there as well. If you get cell service it should work at your location. It is not perfect but it keeps me connected, allows me to stream most of the time and using the wifi with both of our Verizon cell phones gives us adequate data for them as well. I should add we also have a security camera at our gate that uses the wifi and my printer uses the wifi too. All work fine with the TelCel wireless modem/router I got from Sandra. I edited my post to say that when the pandemic first hit I had more issues in the evenings streaming TV but now I can stream most of the time and watch movies in the evenings with few if any streaming issues. The cost of the modem was I think about $2200 pesos and I pay $500 pesos for "unlimited" data each month.

Some representatives of the foodbank were at the organic market on Tuesday accepting donations and we donated, grateful for their wonderful work. We have adopted a few different families here.....or maybe I should say they adopted us because they sure are wonderful to us.....and we help them with food, cash when necessary and we pay for one families oldest daughters accounting school classes and books. We are not wealthy and basically live off of our SSI and a small pension but compared to the average Mexican person here we are very well off. Those of us on fixed incomes here have not been seriously affected financially with the hardships of Covid-19 but in the states prices on nearly everything have gone up substantially as I witnessed spending 4 1/2 months in Oregon recently. This is a very good opportunity to help our Mexican neighbors if we can and they sure could use it now💓

I was at Quality Care on Wednesday. The receptionist kept letting her mask slide down below her nose but everyone was wearing masks and they were definitely required for patients as well. I also went across the parking area and had xrays done and everyone there had masks on as well. Hopeflly OregontoChapala's experience was a fluke and not a regular occurance:/

We used Dr. Moya for my mothers care when she came down to visit last December. He had her hospitalized at the Sanatorio hospital in Guad as well. I had to stay with her 24/7 as there was no assistance for her to get to the bathroom or anything else for that matter. They were very nice but no actual nursing assistant services at all of course. Her treatment consisted of diuretics through an IV. That was the only treatment she had. No other medications, no other treatment. Instead of the hospital giving us a bill that we could pay as we left the hospital Dr. Moya got the bill. I asked repeatedly for the bill and asked daily if there was any sort of information I could have as to what the cost might be and Dr. Moya just kept putting me off. Finally he brought the bill to us 2 days after mom was discharged from the hospital. The total was $5150 US dollars and It was only $13000 pesos for the hospital and $98,000 for Dr Moya. He saw her twice and did a EKG at our house before she was hospitalized. I know the cost for the full hospitalization would have been more NOB but I did think that Dr. Moya's bill was quite excessive:/ We would not return to him under any circumstances. I did not appreciate that he did not give us much information the whole time and we felt we were sort of in the dark through the whole situation and as a retired RN I was very unsatisfied with his level of care and sharing of information:/ Just how things worked out for us.

Tried to send a message but system says you do not receive private messages:/

We are looking for an on demand water heater. Sending you a message!

There is easily more than twice as much lirio visible from our location on the lake and a higher percentage of water hyacinth too so I should have just been patient and waited:) I imagine there will be plenty soon!

LOL...while the water plants on the lake are called lirio here collectively, they each have a real name. Here they are grouped together and called lirio. The majority of water plants on the lake are commonly called water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) and water lettuce ( Pistia stratiotes). Water hyacinth have the purple flowers. Water lettuce does not. They are both common plants used in ornamental water features in the US. The plants currently on the lake are primarily water lettuce and only a small amount of water hyacinth so far that I can tell. We have a layer about 15 ft wide on our lakefront now so I have checked out what is here and not from a long distance away. Last year there was way more at this time of the year. I realize the amounts of the water plants (lirio) probably varies from year to year as does the lake level but since I only have one years experience I thought I would ask. Foolish of me I see:/ We live on the west end and do not have much here at all. I have not seen large "islands" of it yet at all even with the wind blowing from the east. If it floats like lirio does that mean all the plastic bottles are lirio as well because there is plenty of them floating on the lake too:/

We live right on the lake but have been gone for the last 4 1/2 months. We expected to come home to floating islands of lirio like last year but it is very “scant” so far and it seems to be entirely water lettuce and no water hyacinth:/ Anyone else notice this or know why?

We have had a hot tub for many many years in the US and would like to have a soaking tub here in our back yard looking out on the lake. I don't really even use the jacuzzi jets so we are thinking maybe we can get a soaking tub built by a craftsperson here? Any suggestions on who to talk to about this would be greatly appreciated:-)

I love playing Backgammon but have only done it on a computer now for years. Would like to play in person if we can figure out the covid thing so we are safe doing so:-)

As I stated we were surprised by the request for a letter from the bank and in March when we spoke to the consulate in Tucson no one said it was required. As mentioned each consulate seems to do things their own way and since the OP was asking about Tucson and we have the recent requirements they need I thought it could be helpful.

Is there a good water filtration person that we could call to service our system other than Jackie with H2Ole? Anyone in the west end?