Hello Strangers

The past three months has been awful in so many ways. My health, health of several family members, in other words, just life.

I have read many articles in the “free English press” regarding health care in Spain, how much better it is than in the UK. On two counts I beg to differ. In fact they came very near to killing one close family member through lack of care and expertise, we had to fly said family member back to the UK for emergency treatment. Many people I have spoken to have also experienced the same problems, some with potentially life threatening illnesses who cannot get an appointment for a biopsy, even when they do the appointment is cancelled and they are told that they doubt they will be able to get an appointment due to financial problems.

So … if you are ill and need medical care … my advice is do not come to Spain in the current economic climate unless you can afford private medical care. I have also heard of some cases where lives have been saved, but the former outweigh the latter.