The Goot Blog

In the wake of his recent birthday celebration, our most articulate and caring friend Clay Primrose sent out the following share-worthy message. I dedicate it to all our far-flung friends. Come visit sometime soon.

"You know, I think it is always a good idea to know what your top 5 personal values are--the things that you wouldn't ever desert for love nor money. Anyway, at the top of my list has always been "Friends". I live life with friends, find support from friends, joys are multiplied by friends, the richness of life comes in the context of friends, so much of life is defined by friends for me.

"And so, to come to this gold mine of great people called San Miguel, and to find so many really important friendships in such relatively short time--well, it is something I treasure. It is the best."

Our friend Clay just went through a scary little episode where his heart rate suddenly developed a galloping mind of its own. Last week, he went to the new Heart Institute in nearby Queretaro to have his heart "zapped" and this past Friday celebrated both his return to cardiac normalcy and his birthday. Here's an excerpt from the note he sent to all his concerned friends and fans:

"My hat is off to Dr. Maxwell and Mexican medicine as I have experienced it, Hospital de La Fe in San Miguel, Instituto de Corazon de Queretaro, Hospital Medica Tec 100 in Queretaro. It was always friendly, always personal and caring, I never waited anywhere for anything, I was never treated like a number or a risk that had to be avoided, I had my doc's cell phone number and he always answered, he always went with to the hospital and introduced me to other docs. Add to that the whole thing being done for half the cost of my deductible in the U.S. and it's a win all around."

Friendly, personal, caring, effective and affordable… How hard can this health care reform thing be?

This little nugget, buried in a nice newsy e-mail from Utah, is I thought well worth sharing:

The more I go along this journey the far less I know and the less I care that I

do not know.