(Uncle) Les - wishing you a speedy return to good health

[GUT2407]

1 hour ago, NSWP said:

Had the CT scan, not an enclosed barrel but like a big ring with a big hole, not too bad. But they could not do the job properly, they would not/could not put the clarity dye in me because of my poor kidney condition of 27% efficiency. The kidneys have to be able to flush out the dye after CT, otherwise the dye will eventually poison/kill you . So did not get all the good images. Ah well will see what the doctors say in a week or two. I am not feeling real well.

 

If I was given a free ticket on a cruise ship today I would turn it down, too crook.

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.

[Mareblu]

2 hours ago, NSWP said:

Had the CT scan, not an enclosed barrel but like a big ring with a big hole, not too bad. But they could not do the job properly, they would not/could not put the clarity dye in me because of my poor kidney condition of 27% efficiency. The kidneys have to be able to flush out the dye after CT, otherwise the dye will eventually poison/kill you . So did not get all the good images. Ah well will see what the doctors say in a week or two. I am not feeling real well.

 

If I was given a free ticket on a cruise ship today I would turn it down, too crook.

Hang in there Les.  

[Mareblu]

1 hour ago, GUT2407 said:

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.

So they do need a lab test😂

on a different note, wishing Mrs Gut all the best for her tests

[OzKiwiJJ]

4 hours ago, NSWP said:

Had the CT scan, not an enclosed barrel but like a big ring with a big hole, not too bad. But they could not do the job properly, they would not/could not put the clarity dye in me because of my poor kidney condition of 27% efficiency. The kidneys have to be able to flush out the dye after CT, otherwise the dye will eventually poison/kill you . So did not get all the good images. Ah well will see what the doctors say in a week or two. I am not feeling real well.

 

If I was given a free ticket on a cruise ship today I would turn it down, too crook.

Sorry to hear you're feeling really crook. Take care. 😘

[BRANDEE]

6 hours ago, NSWP said:

Had the CT scan, not an enclosed barrel but like a big ring with a big hole, not too bad. But they could not do the job properly, they would not/could not put the clarity dye in me because of my poor kidney condition of 27% efficiency. The kidneys have to be able to flush out the dye after CT, otherwise the dye will eventually poison/kill you . So did not get all the good images. Ah well will see what the doctors say in a week or two. I am not feeling real well.

 

If I was given a free ticket on a cruise ship today I would turn it down, too crook.

Dear Les..so sorry to hear you are not feeling well..sending hugs and good thoughts from around the world.  Be well..Brandee

[cruisine21]

23 hours ago, NSWP said:

CSHCC Threshold goes up tomorrow to 90K income for singles. He might apply for a card if income is ok. Good luck. He is going well 95 not out, I wish him well. 

Thanks for that. We will reapply. It would be good to receive the ambulance cover because his health doesn’t cover non emergency ambulance transport from the hospital to the NH

[NSWP]

2 hours ago, cruisine21 said:

Thanks for that. We will reapply. It would be good to receive the ambulance cover because his health doesn’t cover non emergency ambulance transport from the hospital to the NH

I applied for my Commonwealth Seniors Healthcare Card this morning, takes about 10 minutes on the Centrelink site. They want to know a bit and also require documentary evidence of income, so I scanned and uploaded the letter from State Super re super pension increase recently, due to CPI. If that is not good enough I will have to get onto State Super for something better to keep Centrelink happy.

Edited November 3, 2022 by NSWP

[cruisine21]

2 hours ago, NSWP said:

I applied for my Commonwealth Seniors Healthcare Card this morning, takes about 10 minutes on the Centrelink site. They want to know a bit and also require documentary evidence of income, so I scanned and uploaded the letter from State Super re super pension increase recently, due to CPI. If that is not good enough I will have to get onto State Super for something better to keep Centrelink happy.

You will need to get an your super fund to complete a Details of income stream product form SA330

[NSWP]

3 hours ago, cruisine21 said:

You will need to get an your super fund to complete a Details of income stream product form SA330

Thanks, just requested one from State Super.

[GUT2407]

5 hours ago, NSWP said:

I applied for my Commonwealth Seniors Healthcare Card this morning, takes about 10 minutes on the Centrelink site. They want to know a bit and also require documentary evidence of income, so I scanned and uploaded the letter from State Super re super pension increase recently, due to CPI. If that is not good enough I will have to get onto State Super for something better to keep Centrelink happy.

I was hopeful but not old enough.

 

[GUT2407]

8 hours ago, cruisine21 said:

Thanks for that. We will reapply. It would be good to receive the ambulance cover because his health doesn’t cover non emergency ambulance transport from the hospital to the NH

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.

[GUT2407]

On 11/3/2022 at 11:36 AM, Mareblu said:

So they do need a lab test😂

on a different note, wishing Mrs Gut all the best for her tests

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

 

[lyndarra]

38 minutes ago, GUT2407 said:

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.

My top cover fund covers ambulance. I just fill in the details on the bill and the fund pays. One time I had called the ambulance but it was determined I would not need a hospital trip and my fund still paid it. I don't know if my fund has conditions based on need or type of service.

[cruisine21]

2 hours ago, lyndarra said:

My top cover fund covers ambulance. I just fill in the details on the bill and the fund pays. One time I had called the ambulance but it was determined I would not need a hospital trip and my fund still paid it. I don't know if my fund has conditions based on need or type of service.

Our top cover doesn’t cover patient transport from a public to private hospital or from hospital to home. Queensland residents get free ambulance cover Australia wide.

[GUT2407]

22 hours ago, cruisine21 said:

Our top cover doesn’t cover patient transport from a public to private hospital or from hospital to home. Queensland residents get free ambulance cover Australia wide.

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

[MMDown Under]

On 11/2/2022 at 1:58 PM, GUT2407 said:

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

Yes!  I am back at the GC.  Had a Cat Scan on Thursday.  I had gotten to the stage of choosing beween GC and Prince Charles Hospitals.  Fortunately, I got good results and my bp was down.  Now I can concentrate on cruising.

My daughter followed the instructions to allow me to log on, as I've been unable to log on. 

Hope you are feeling better Les and you got your entitlements sorted. 

[GUT2407]

13 hours ago, MMDown Under said:

Yes!  I am back at the GC.  Had a Cat Scan on Thursday.  I had gotten to the stage of choosing beween GC and Prince Charles Hospitals.  Fortunately, I got good results and my bp was down.  Now I can concentrate on cruising.

My daughter followed the instructions to allow me to log on, as I've been unable to log on. 

Hope you are feeling better Les and you got your entitlements sorted. 

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.

[GUT2407]

On 11/4/2022 at 5:21 PM, lyndarra said:

My top cover fund covers ambulance. I just fill in the details on the bill and the fund pays. One time I had called the ambulance but it was determined I would not need a hospital trip and my fund still paid it. I don't know if my fund has conditions based on need or type of service.

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.

[MMDown Under]

17 minutes ago, GUT2407 said:

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.

Ambulance cover and public hospitals used to be free in Queensland.  My grandmother, who didn't gamble, used to buy tickets on the Chocolate Wheel which raised funds for the Ambulance.  This is why Ambulance cover is included in Health Insurance policies.  

[MMDown Under]

25 minutes ago, GUT2407 said:

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.

Do you know what causes your wife to have low blood pressure?  I didn't realise low blood pressure could be dangerous until I was called to my grandmother, who was dying.  I insisted on another doctor's opinion, who correctly diagnosed she had low blood pressure and stopped her high blood pressure medication which was killing her.  

[GUT2407]

32 minutes ago, MMDown Under said:

Do you know what causes your wife to have low blood pressure?  I didn't realise low blood pressure could be dangerous until I was called to my grandmother, who was dying.  I insisted on another doctor's opinion, who correctly diagnosed she had low blood pressure and stopped her high blood pressure medication which was killing her.  

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.  

[MMDown Under]

5 minutes ago, GUT2407 said:

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 you and your wife have a disproportionate share of unique medical issues.  

Little did we realise in days gone by that chickenpox could lead to shingles which can lead to  further complications.  Can you still get travel insurance?

[GUT2407]

1 hour ago, MMDown Under said:

I think you and your wife have a disproportionate share of unique medical issues.  

Little did we realise in days gone by that chickenpox could lead to shingles which can lead to  further complications.  Can you still get travel insurance?

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”.

[MMDown Under]

3 minutes ago, GUT2407 said:

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”.

Some drugs can give you tremors. 

(I was in intensive care with a suspected heart attack.  Pain was in the middle of my back.  Doctor said it was from stones. One student backtracked and asked me did I tell Specialist that, but I said no, it was a process of elimination from a determined specialist.)

I hope to visit UK for a last time next year, with a cruise from there.  I'm pleased I travelled overseas annually when I was young, because I'm now happy to travel and cruise in Australia.  Just waiting for some decent itinerary choices.  

[Mareblu]

Morning Les,    Wondering how you fared with your Specialist.  Only answer if you wish, of course.  Thinking of you and hope you’re receiving some positive treatment, and feeling a lot better.