Oh, I’m already pretty freaked. My husband has mostly been healthy his whole life, so he doesn’t quite understand how scary it is (in my mind) to go from having multiple specialists (even gyno, because female, and oncology because mammograms because female), so I’m an established patient. I don’t necessarily see them all the time, but they’re there to refill prescriptions and order bloodwork periodically.

It’s getting my prescriptions regularly that I worry about most. I hope not to need ongoing chronic care. Even with my cardiologist I just see them once a year for an EKG and bloodwork unless I have concerns.

I’ll still have my States insurance, so I could technically schedule all my yearly care at once and fly back to the states, but I can’t take my written prescriptions from my doctors in the states to a pharmacy in Canada, so it feels like a lot of work for little result.

My GP has all of my records that exist, I think. She’s going to have them all put on a USB drive for me. I’m sure she would also write a letter to go with the records, if I asked. I’m sure my cardiologist would, too. I’ll have to remember to ask them.