Ginette struggles to find a local cardiologist following her heart attack and triple bypass surgery in Florida.
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I couldn’t find a doc, a cardiologist for – I think I got back here in May and by December they referred me to somebody which I thought, I think I saw in January the year after. And it was probably about an hour interview. It was all question and what happened in Florida and kind of like you and I talking. And she said, ‘OK keep doing what you’re doing, if there’s any change call me.’ And I was like, ‘Oh so no test, no?’ She said, ‘No you’re good, go home.’ I was like OK. And then I went to see her one more time in June and that’s when I got a letter in the mail after that saying that she was retiring and that I needed to find a new cardiologist; and that was the end of the story. Then we started all over again. So I still, I don’t know. I don’t know …
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