GUT2407

Usually a sea night. Never first or last night, seldom a night when you sail late.

Glad you got your card approved and sending best wishes fr the surgery. The robotic stuff is amazing and showing much better results than the old way. Good luck mate.

But it wasn’t Antartica it was within Australia.

Nope it was around some of the Southern Islands, that was the top cabin on the ship and solo, just blew my mind that on Saturday you could still book for Sunday, and they boarded at 4pm for a 5pm sail away

Funny you say that one trip to hospital Dr in charge of ER said, “You are interesting can I go over your file with the young doctors over the next few weeks?” Not too sure how I’ll go with travel insurance, I haven’t needed it for a few years, I got it for a few years, sometimes with some conditions not covered, but as long as I would be in an Australian port within a day or two it was a risk I was willing to take. Not so sure anymore as one condition leads to another. I do travel with some pretty potent pain killers, even just heading down the road, it is with some potent stuff, overseas travel is off the agenda, even road trips and about 1/4 of the distance per day as they once were. But we look back on the trips we never dreamt were in our future and the journey our lives have taken us on so far and hopefully will in the future and try not to think of the ones we wanted to do but never will. Maybe another circumnavigation ofAus in the future, our main concerns now are avoiding the need to fly and foreign health care systems. Mrs G isn’t allowed to fly at all, it cost us a Hawaii cruise as if anything happened to me, she’d have to get back on the ship and leave me (let alone the cost if I needed care not covered by insurance) we have an Aussie cruise booked early 2024 and have till about Oct to cancel, so something to dream about and we will make the call closer to that time. We would love another road trip to Tas, but need to break it down to about 100km per day drive, so take us over a week just to get to Geelong. and yes Shingles and Chickenpox are caused by the same virus, but according to some doctors a stress situation like she came home to that day can be a triggering factor. Fortunately her shingles have left few after effects but she now has these internal tremors, no one can say if it is shingles related or not, but her Neurologist in particular wants to rule out everything before he says “live with it”.

Not really it has always been that way, I have suggested she can have a few of my points and we’d both be near on normal. She seldom gets BP reading in three digits. She is currently going through about a gazillion tests for essential tremors, they think it is a flow on from shingles and they blame those on her getting home to 4 ambulances, a rapid response paramedic truck, fire brigade and fire and ambulance rescue all in our front yard. She has had every type of scan known and heart tests to the moon and back, Drs all say these tests aren’t expected to show anything but need to be done for safety sake. These tremors have stripped weight off her and again generous bloke I am I have offered her 20 kg or so.

I think that in NSW our health cover includes the same things as the fund you can join (or used to be able to, we paid into it when we didn’t have private health cover) for just ambulance cover, when we were in it the cost was about $2 a month and yep I often have them out just to get me off the floor and back in bed or just pain relief.

Good luck, good your be was down unless you happen to be Mrs G whose BP is usually dangerously low, like 75/50 last night, so I guess that’s proof that I don’t stress her.

Nope, $25k for 10 nights for a solo cabin. I think the lowest was $6.5k each. Strewth I pa8n less than that for 30+ nights around Aus or Hawaii.

I hav3 had transfer by ambulance between private hospitals and from public to prove and private to public.

A friend is sailing on an expedition cruise leaving tomorrow. Believe it or not, bookings are still open right now. But then at the price I wonder why.

Thank you, they thought the6 found a heart, but I have my doubts.

I have top cover in health f7n can’t even get ambulance from home to doctor for tests. Couldn’t sit up, only possibility was to go an stretcher, three doctors tried to arrange it, nope, eventually had to hav3 the tests delayed till the hospital could do it then get ambulance to ER, then admitted to hospital, then test. But then no way to get home.

I was hopeful but not old enough.

Sorry to hear you’d say no to a free cruise, even sorrier that they couldn’t do the full thing, I’ve had a few with the dye, Mrs Gut has one tomorrow on her ticker. Yeah CTs aren’t anywhere near as deep as the MRIs and even they don’t stress me too much now with the larger bore, I know I am big but also know people way bigger, back in the day of the smaller machines I once asked what they do with the real big blokes, they have been known to send them to the animal hospital, she said som3 folk turn nasty my answer was at least they get done.

Sounds like we are all a pack of crocks falling apart.

CT and Cat the same thing, the barrels are getting a bit larger, thank goodness with my size and claustrophobia (albeit mild). Uncle Les with all these Lab tests and Cat scans can’t your vet grandaughter do them, they all seem to involve pets.

He was one of your mob but Raymond Burr also played Perry Mason, one Court officer always calls me Ironside, another Bluto because of my resemblance to Popeye’s mate, but most just call me Sir.

Nah I retired the first time from Dept of Defence, in my mid 30s, finished my studies, spent most of the next 25 years practicing from a wheelchair, retired a second time in my early 60s, if they ever fix these mini strokes I’ll be back in harness in a heart beat, I really miss it

Congratulations to Lynne, even if I don’t understand people wanting to retire.

The whole system sucks re who is and isn’t bulk billed.

I’d missed that too, wonder if it will help me, or if I’m not old enough yet.

Wow that is crazy I have had more cats and MRIs than I can count, never paid a cent even when I was a rich barrister, but they were all referrals from specialists that May have been a factor. I am honestly starting to think our health system is in serious trouble. And Les please keep posting away, I know how much the distraction can help.

Thinking of you all the time mate. Hope you have the will to keep fighting, we are all here for you, but if you need more, give me a yell.

Not sure Uncle Les has two heads.😱😂