Please before you head out on the trip of a lifetime give a thought to your health. By simply asking your GP to refer you to a Cardiologist you may save your family a lot of anguish. Most of the major hospitals have grey nomads as patients and this becomes complicated when the partner cannot operate the rig. Also the need to look at travel insurance, it's essential for peace of mind to know no matter what happens you can get back to your hometown. You carry out all the preventative work on your vehicles before you leave so why not on yourself. Good luck.
On our current trip, there have been 2 cases of non fatal heart attacks, both women, one at Emu Park and the other at Cardwell, as you age you wear and constant check ups and maintenance are necessary.
Good advice.Plus make sure your spouse has all your medication written down and kept on their persons.Early this year I had a bout of Transient Global Amnesia and not only did I not know who I was or where I was ,naturally I could provide zilch info ! In fact to this day I lost 24 hrs somewhere.Cheers
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Westy. Some people I know are like slinkies. They look really funny when you push them downstairs !
Travel insurance is not appropriate for those who spend all, or most of their time travelling - the cost is prohibitive for most.
Before a couple even think seriously of nomading or holidayig with an RV, the lady should be prepared to do everything he does with the vehicle(s). I taught my wife how to hitch and unhitch our van, how to drive and tow taking into account theres 3T behind her. She can do everything I can do with the van (although as a matter of course I usually do the backing/hitching/unhitching and driving.
If your partner cant do this, and he has a heart attack for example when youre in a remote area with no mobile phone contact, what happens then? You could sit there for hours or days before someone drives past.......
Most experienced nomaders I know are both experienced in doing all these basics. It could save your partners life
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Cheers Bruce
The amazing things you see when nomading Australia
I go to my local Dr. and get a check up before any long trip (time duration) then ask for a print out of my health records. By doing this if there is a problem then the printout can be given to the medical personal handling the situation, plus in our case if scripts do run out I have presented this printout to the Dr. before requesting a renewell. Works well for us.
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I was tired yesterday and I'm tired today betcha I'm retired tomorrow. he he.
I go to my local Dr. and get a check up before any long trip (time duration) then ask for a print out of my health records. By doing this if there is a problem then the printout can be given to the medical personal handling the situation, plus in our case if scripts do run out I have presented this printout to the Dr. before requesting a renewell. Works well for us. 
