The journey
Not a brochure — the real thing, in three parts: why I left, the fear I carried, and what I found when I arrived. If Canadian wait times have you looking outward, this is the account I wish I'd had before I went.
Part 1 · The decision
Seventeen years with a condition, five months of unreturned phone calls, a $45,000 U.S. quote, and the moment the math changed. Why a hundred thousand Canadians a year quietly look abroad.
Read Part 1 →Part 2 · The fear
Doing the hardest research of my life alone, a facilitator who felt vague, a hospital that changed on me at the last minute, and the cash-payment fear that kept me up at night.
Read Part 2 →Part 3 · The arrival
Same-day testing, a $37 emergency visit, a doctor who checked on me seven times in one night — and the realization that started Mālama & Co.
Read Part 3 →The data
Not anecdote — the documented figures from the Fraser Institute, CIHI, and the CMA. A 28.6-week median wait, 49.9 weeks for neurosurgery, 18.1 weeks for an MRI, every number linked to its source.
See the numbers →