The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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TastyReuben said:
Hey, are you all starting to feel any better?
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Yes thanks, but still tired. Craig is home but is having some side effects of the shingles.

I hate taking the Paxlovid though. About an hour or so after I take if, get this really nasty taste in mouth that lingers for 5 or 6 hours and it has to be taken twice a day. 4 more doses to go.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I hadn't even appreciated that it was a paint colour until today!
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It really is lovely in a bedroom.
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Well I now know for definite that there's a problem with my back again. I was suspect as it was, my back getting sorer and sorer, and sleep more and more difficult to get, but last night I woke with my left foot numb. The moment I moved onto my side the feeling started to come back but my hip hurts if I lie on one side and my back and other arthritic hip hurts if I lie on the other side, so back to sleeping with my legs raised as the only way of sleeping (and that's being generous with the concept).
Hubby is coming with me to the doctors appointment this afternoon.

But there's a complication. 30 months ago I had a Neuro stimulator (similar to a tens machine but the electrodes are implanted directly onto the spine and the whole thing is inside me). The electrodes are exactly where the problem disc/vertebra are. So only x-ray will be possible, not MRI... and if I need surgery which I'm expecting I do (this is the 3rd area to fail and the 4th disc) I may actually have to have 2 lots of surgery, one to remove the Neuro stimulator and another to fix the back.

To say I'm upset is putting it mildly.

My Neuro surgeon has a massive gap in his fees. Last time I need surgery, 4 years ago, the gap payment as $16,000. That was actually covered by our insurance because we were here on secondment. Now it isn't because we became permanent residents and then citizens. Mind you I don't know that he's still operating in Canberra. Last time I had to go to Melbourne to have the operation and I'm not certain that I really want to (or frankly can because hubby can't drive yet..)

I'll go back to bed this morning, to try to get a like more sleep, but there's a long list of jobs to be done, that have to be done today including wood. Ironically my back is OK during the day at the moment, it's just the rest of me that fails to function without sleep!

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TastyReuben said:
I’m really sorry you’re having to go through all this. I just wish you have some better options, or easier access to more affordable care. :hug:
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Thank you.

From everything my mum has told me, I'm better off here in Australia than the UK so at least I can actually get to see someone.

My parents doctors surgery don't allow patients in to see a doctor at all anymore unless the nurse contacts you to see them. You can't book a telephone appointment except on the day concerned and so on... at least here I can actually see a doctor in person.

And it was the UK that stuffed my back up first time around, not even believing me that there was a problem in the first place despite my right leg being entirely numb and paralysed, so despite the cost I know I'm in the better location for help.

What's more annoying is that I was just getting to the point where we thought I might be able to start looking for part time work, but apparently my health disagrees yet again.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
My parents doctors surgery don't allow patients in to see a doctor at all anymore unless the nurse contacts you to see them. You can't book a telephone appointment except on the day concerned and so on... at least here I can actually see a doctor in person.
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That is very unusual I think. In fact I would think it would be investigated by the GQC if a practice refused to book a face to face appointment unless you were referred by a nurse or booked in 'on the day'. Where do they live? You may have to wait a little while where I live, but you can certainly book a face to face appointment.
 
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SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
What's more annoying is that I was just getting to the point where we thought I might be able to start looking for part time work, but apparently my health disagrees yet again.
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Yeah, I had just applied for some jobs in the beginning of this year too. Luck doesn't seem to favor us much health wise. I'm sorry, it's really hard to have to rely on others all the time. I know the feeling. My husband's really generous but being unable to add to our household income hurts my feelings too. I get it. But you should believe your husband, you're worth it. I am too apparently. I know how difficult it can be to truly believe that. But you're doing everything you can despite your condition, and that's what counts. Or that's what they tell me! :hug:
 
Thank you Windigo and PabloLerntKochen . It's unlikely the fires will affect my family because we live in suburban cities and most of the fires are in rural areas, but it's awful that our country goes through this every year and it seems like we never learn with the mistakes from previous years (eg lack of vigilance, not properly cleaning forest areas, etc).
 
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