Preparedness for when

RAS

This guy is one of my heroes http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-brutal-truth-about-americarsquos-healthcare-1772580.html

Karmacat

Good grief. Thats an amazing link, RAS. The NHS comes in for such criciticism, the figures at the end are amazing!

And yes, that guy is a hero. A real live hero.

Butterfly_Brain

I agree, the man is a true saint :T

Talking about teeth, I had a hospital appointment this morning and the biopsy was clear :j

GreyQueen

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I agree, the man is a true saint :T

Talking about teeth, I had a hospital appointment this morning and the biopsy was clear :j

:beer::T:beer: Yayyyyy!!!! That's brilliant news.

I'd read about this guy's organisation before, the article I read had them going into an area of rural America, and people had travelled for days to be there and queued for help. It's like a third world country for the poor, the US, and yet they think so highly of themselves and look down on socialistic countries us and others in Europe..........!

I shudder to think what I would have paid in cold hard cash for the medical treatment I've had; MRIs, two surgeries, lots of tests.......no way would I have been able to afford that on £10k a year. And to think we complain if we have to pay to park at the hospital. I do choose to have private dentistry for my difficult gnashers but that works out at £50 per annum most years.

Have been paying my gas (just the cooker, the CH is on a service charge) and the elastic trickery for the 92 days to present. 35p a day for the electricity and 18p a day for the gas stove. But I have the teakettle on that, plus I bake my own bread.

Righty, better get the meal on or I shall end up chewing the mouse mat for sustenance.

ETA; just had a Doh! moment, there was £12 off the elastic-trickery bill because of the green deal refund thingy, I had asked the company about it and had forgotten that it was coming off this quarter's bill. That means that my actual usage was 48p per day, which 4p more than the previous quarter's daily use, which I attribute to the longer nights.

Frugalsod

GreyQueen wrote: »

:beer::T:beer: Yayyyyy!!!! That's brilliant news.

I'd read about this guy's organisation before, the article I read had them going into an area of rural America, and people had travelled for days to be there and queued for help. It's like a third world country for the poor, the US, and yet they think so highly of themselves and look down on socialistic countries us and others in Europe..........!

The Americans do have a serious problem with cognitive dissonance when it comes to health and how we Europeans cope. To be fair they have been brainwashed for decades over the matter so hardly surprising. To be fair there are loads of Brits who have completely misguided information about who actually gets most welfare in this country. Many think that the unemployed and disabled are living the life of Riley on benefits when pensioners and the working poor get the vast majority of the welfare spend.

Softstuff

RAS wrote: »

This guy is one of my heroes http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-brutal-truth-about-americarsquos-healthcare-1772580.html

That's one hell of an article RAS. It makes me appreciate the Australian system greatly. It functions with universal healthcare (medicare), but also has private healthcare at an affordable rate. And you can combine the two however you choose. It seems to work pretty well here.

Congrats on the biopsy ButterflyBrain.

moneyistooshorttomention

What a guy indeed:T:A. To do all that is heroic enough, but to not even have a proper home or income himself whilst doing it....whew...hats off to that man. I do hope that local people are helping him out personally with a proper bed for the night and proper meals as a "thanks" for what he is doing.

BigMummaF

Softstuff wrote: »

As I understand it BigMummaF, the fit has a lot to do with how well she'll be able to chew. If the teeth are moving around as she's trying to take a bite, she won't get much chew for her effort!

Teeth don't have to all that sharp for meat. Unless you cook it like my ex husband used to :rotfl: As for sharpening, I'm reminded of sharpening scissors using sandpaper, so have an image in my head of you saying to her "ere, chew on this!".

I am so pleased to have put my cup down before opening the poota, or I would be cast into further enforced solitary confinement til I could get a new keyboard :rotfl: I have written up a meal plan now, to include a lot more "roughage" & "trace element compounds" (aka sandpaper sarnies, charcoal chowder & foil fois gras ) to see if that helps


I've missed you lot here in MSE...I'm spending every day with me muvva now & the appointments for various things are coming thick & fast. She has one next week in connection with a diagnosis to see if there's anything to help her memory, but the local authority occie therp drew a blank when they looked into little bits to aid her independence Not their fault by any stretch of the imagination although I don't think I could convince the young lady of that, when she rang to say there was nowt they could offer. As I said, it was greatly appreciated that she took the time to look cuz I would have struggled to know where to begin, if left to my own devices. Doesn't help that muvva moans when I try to have a bit of a meander on the lappy my sister has loaned for a while


All this with Mum has shown how much we do take things for granted here in the UK. Occupational Therapy were looking at things to put under the castors of the sofa to rise it up a bit & if they had them, Mum would have had them on free long-term loan (she's got funny legs so none of the risers would fit..not muvva ..the couch..)
She has investigations for her medical health, at no cost to her.
She has life-enhancing drugs every day, at no cost to her.
She has sight-saving procedures & medications, at no cost to her...& so it continues.
There is absolutely no way I could afford to financially support her medical care if we did not have the NHS & that is very scary

danih

Not liking the teeth chat - hate the dentist, all that hoking about in my mouth

Have had to apply some thought to plasters today. We have a bad habit of taking on cute fluffy things in need of a home. Hubby bought home a guinea pig, he's a community mental health nurse, one of his clients let it have the run of his fold flat, pooping, peeing and leaving hay anywhere. He had to get rid of the guinea pig or he would loose his flat, so hubby brought him home to join our piggies. Our dog scared the newbie this morning, and he bit my finger, which is now swelling. Oowwww Anyway, point is, fabric plasters are working better then plastic, as the fabric allows for better movement / swelling of the injured area. Something to remember for my first aid stash.

moneyistooshorttomention

danih wrote: »

Not liking the teeth chat - hate the dentist, all that hoking about in my mouth

Have had to apply some thought to plasters today. We have a bad habit of taking on cute fluffy things in need of a home. Hubby bought home a guinea pig, he's a community mental health nurse, one of his clients let it have the run of his fold flat, pooping, peeing and leaving hay anywhere. He had to get rid of the guinea pig or he would loose his flat, so hubby brought him home to join our piggies. Our dog scared the newbie this morning, and he bit my finger, which is now swelling. Oowwww Anyway, point is, fabric plasters are working better then plastic, as the fabric allows for better movement / swelling of the injured area. Something to remember for my first aid stash.

Kind hubbie....but one thought for you personally is having been bitten and the relevant finger is swelling up = have you put something like tea tree essential oil on that bite? If that had happened to me, then that is what I would do and monitor the condition of that finger just in case of "summat nasty" coming with said bite.

EDIT: Am guessing you may not have anything as "alternative" as that, but perhaps some TCP or Germolene or summat else more "conventional" would be something protective for you.