Mexico Trip

We went to Nuevo Progreso for the first time this season. I went last March while Butch was in the hospital with his leg and this season we were waiting to both be fully vaccinated before we went down. So yesterday was the day.

We first stopped at the place where we get dental work done or questions answered. Butch got his teeth cleaned. $25 

Then we went on down to Hectors. I had sent an email to him with my preorder so expected it to be ready but what I did not count on was a problem with telephones and the Internet. The entire town was without Internet and phone. That pretty much brought most business to a screeching halt. We did not bring enough cash with us because in the past I have used a credit card with no problem. So after deciding we would have to come back on a different day. Hector decided we could be trusted, much as we trust him, and let us take over $300 of meds with us on the promise to come back and pay him before we head north. There are many reasons we go all the way down to the south end of town to do business with Hector and the above is one of them. Numerous other reasons are sound pharmaceutical advice on many levels. He told me a few years ago that Xarelto was due to have a generic form in 2019 and is quite a costly med so I followed up on it. He said they do have one but he doesn't trust the source. He said there is really no guarantee of what is in it. And it does not have sanctions from reliable sources, like the Mexican government. If a med is sanctioned by the government of  Mexico the people of Mexico trust it. Much like the FDA in the US. Another reason we know, like, and trust Hector. We were going to pick up some pricey eyedrops for a family member. In the US they cost well over $100 per tiny little bottle. Lumigan- and in Mexico, it has been $28 a bottle. But Hector told us the generic form in Mexico now put out by the Mexican government is now $13 a bottle and he fully trusts it. He did not have to tell us that. We value his input. Another reason is all year long I can email him with drug-related questions. He will get back to me. Mexicans might operate on a different urgency or non-urgency of time but things do get done and he will get back to me.

On the way back to our Texas home, we stopped at Trails End where many of our Magnolia Park friends landed after leaving the remnants of Magnolia. Magnolia is far from the place we knew back in the day. It was so good to see so many familiar faces.  All but one of them have been fully vaccinated and she kept her distance.