Is it really this bad?

Rob, yesterday I received a phone call from a neighbour 7 doors away, that could I help her. She had come in and found her husband (84) lying on the floor and couldn't move him. I had a cousin who is a SRN visiting us at the time , but my cousin said not to move him as she came along with me. He is a big bloke and flatly refused for an ambulance to be called, however my cousin talked him out of it, and off he went. This bloke was originally an Estonian, escaped at 14 on a Fishing Boat when the Russians had it, was taken in by a British Family in the NE of England, joined the RAF and came out with a commission after an accident in an airplane crash and is tone deaf. He didn't want medical treatment only to be put in a comfortable position. However he received what I consider adequate medical attention here in Oz. He once again is home happy to say. There are always the whingers and whiners who expect everyone to be at their beck and call. I agree with your post re the dope heads and find it hard to give any Christian charity to those with such self inflicted illnesses, probably through greed and the f... you Jack I'm alright attitude. Cheers John Sabourn

Hi All
My wife just spent ten days in Cooma hospital with a severe gastric attack, I called the ambulance and two turned up the blokes were marvelous, despite the mess you would have thought they were doing a normal job. Her blood pressure was through the roof and the Dr, a great little Indian bloke was very worried, but he worked on it, and slowly it is coming down, he is the only Dr who has managed that in fifty years. Here in country NSW, the system is great with marvelous nurses and hospital staff they couldn't be faulted on care and responsibility and I take my hat off to them.
Cheers Des
Cheers Des

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Originally Posted by Neville Roberts

Hi John I too had a radical prostectomy at 58 years old and still here at 75 I had a company policy at the westin hotels at the time and it cost me $75 out of pocket after the insurance of $35,000. the surgeon told me before the op that it was just a routine op, bloody hell I said maybe for you . have a 8to 9 inch scare from belly button to crotch. and happened to see a similar operation done on tv sometime before I had it so I knew what they would do .very gory and lots of cutting and shaving off the prostate / ouch ouch.

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The one good thing about my op, at no time did I ever have any pain. I wasa most amazed at thta for as you say the scar is long.

One of the problems we have here in Melbourne, and maybe other places including UK is the abuse of the ambulance system. Here you have to pay as a member if you want a free ride, once on any form of pension or work related or traffic accident it is free. But there are so many, mainly from other countries who think it is a taxi service. They have the slightest ache and cal for the ambos. Unfortunately they ae obliged to go to all call outs. Once there they then have to decide if it is a genuine emergency or just someone who is too lazy to make an appointment with their GP. Tow of our major hospitals have however found a way around this. Clinics operating 24/7 have been established within the hospital grounds. Emergency patients are then assesed on arival and if found not to be a genuine emergency are sent to the clinic. There they have to wait up to four hours to be seen and then have to pay. Numbers of non genuine emergencies at these two hospitals has now dropped by over 60%. Talking with an ambulance driver when I was taken asa genuine emergency he explained something to me the general public are not aware of. They are currently engaged in a protracted dispute about a pay rise. However it was the previous LABOR gov of the state who in their firts term o foffice passed a law. Any public servant, police, teacher, fireman or ambulance person was not to recieve an annual pay rise above the rate of inflation.

The NHS is really a postcode lottery , here we have Portsmouth Queen Alexandra's hospital which is excellent Rob.

Hi Rob. That is where my son is, in charge of the Liver diseases, Hepatology department.
He says many of his patients are young kids who drink a bottle of cheap European vodka before they leave home in the evening then drink cheap booze in the clubs in town, others are adults who are drinking the cheap cider to oblivion. He has 16 year old girls who are alcoholics. What the hell are their parents like??
He works a 12 hour day trying to sort out these and save lives, an impossible task with most of them, People with genuine Liver diseases are waiting longer for treatment due to this,
Cheers
Brian.
Make them pay and then they will have less money to buy their cheap plonk.

I live half mile from one of the local housing estates , my daughter lives on the edge in an ex council house . My local shop sells cheap sausages and pile it high bread in a limited range , but has a choice from eighteen different ciders ans six vodkas , crisps take up one aisle . The first mob go in there at eight thirty , and smell of the night before , they get a can and walk to the pharmacy to line up for their methadone , get a can on the way home and go back to bed . They get up around four is , collect more weed and a half of vodka then get high for the evening whilst playing an X-Box . They save the weed and booze money , by doing a bit of nicking and never buying soap or washing powder , their girlfriends use discarded Post Office red rubber bands as hair ties . They get quite Leary and play loud music late into the night .

Now when I see guys here telling how their grand children and children cannot get work , I feel sorry for them , there is work around down here ( I live in the F-in over privileged Sarf F-in East ) , it is given to Polish and Latvian immigrants , because the locals don't see why they should F-in work because the F-in immigrants have all the F-in jobs . The F-in immigrants would not be here if these lazy people got off their arrogant behinds and worked for a living like I had to . So when Dave says he is going to hit the benefits , I see these characters and agree it is time something was done .

As far as giving the persons above new livers , well they would be low on my list ,

A neighbour of my daughters , weed smoker and dealer has just had a foot , then lower leg , and now above the knee amputated , still smokes , the weed helps the F-in pain doesn't it , he has carers , he has medical care , all the free medicine he will ever need , and whilst he is having his self induced disease treated , someone goes a bit further down the list . Cynic ! me ! no ! , just at my tender youth , have seen too many people cross that bar , and fight every step of the way , so when I see a sad pile of self pitying humanity , my sympathy valve closes , and I would make moral judgements if I was a Doctor , that i why I took up engineering , not medicine , never lost an engine yet , close a few times , but all managed to reach the scrap yard still under their own power

Hi shipmates, Booze on the streets in Cardiff empty cans litter everywhere, Dont remember that a few years ago. only The down and outs drunk in public? School kids buy alcohol from local corner shops {No law enforcement} drugs{weed} smoked by many of the ethnic commuity in some areas of the city never hear of any arrest for years? is it legal now?Hi Captain kong if your son came back to Cardiff ?he would be on treble time+ L.O.S. fixing all the damage to livers done by amount of cheap fake vodka drunk by young woman/ schoolgirls/students at £4.00 a bottle on the weekend sold everywhere Last weekend I was in the city centre the amount of woman drunk at 10am, was like something out of a zombies movie and the swearing, could put any seaman to shame? it seems like its the same everywhere today. Whats gone wrong???????

most cities have gonethat way Louis ...what happened to drunk and incapable etc laws don't work anymore

Last year in Portsmouth my lad had to tell the parents of two 16 year old girls, they were terminal, they could not have a liver transplant as the rest of the internals were also destroyed, he gave them six months. The price OF £4 A BOTTLE OF CHEAP EUROPEAN vodka. It should be banned as an illegal substance. it costs the Nation and NHS Millions.
He does not have a pleasant job at times.
The workshy get too much on benefits.
Cheers
Brian.

Hi shipmates, paying off in Glasgow after a long trip, many years ago a few of us going south on the train one of the lads , opened his docking bottle 8 bells rum on the train, he allmost caused a riot with the other passengers up in arms !!! comments I remember you cant drink that on this train , your animals,E.T.C. Today what would happen? it was in the afternoon in a carriage with sliding door ... Not on the main street of a city at 10am.