Alex, would you like to see some pics of my stay in a hospital in Peru,
had Salmonella. I was pretty bad.
They should make you so appreciative of what we have, and thankful that you weren't taken ill there.
raymo
After reading some material about palpitations and Mg levels I have been on supplements - again, cant hurt. No return of the palpitations
Good to hear all's well. One other thing I forgot to mention is to get your actual magnesium levels checked, especially if you are on the ever popular PPI drugs like Nexium, which can deplete Magnesium levels.
Back home. Kidneys are fine I feel better than for a long time...however I thought what a wonderful health system we have and really how they deserve just so much praise...
Hi Alex,
It's great to hear you are back home and doing better.
I think we are very lucky in Australia to have the system we have, despite it not being perfect it is better than many others I have read about and heard first hand accounts of. In all of my interactions with the system, either personally or through family or friends, I have only praise for the system and its doctors, nurses, paramedics, medical techs, imagers, orderlies, administrators, cleaners, kitchen, etc...
Alex, would you like to see some pics of my stay in a hospital in Peru,
had Salmonella. I was pretty bad.
They should make you so appreciative of what we have, and thankful that you weren't taken ill there.
raymo
For sure Raymo..main reason I never traveled was a fear of overseas hospitals etc. As well as a absolute fear of flying...that would have been different if I knew someone like our Peter (Peter Ward) was the pilot
Dont worry having had three maybe four very close calls I am very appreciative...
Alex
It's great to hear you are back home and doing better.
I think we are very lucky in Australia to have the system we have, despite it not being perfect it is better than many others I have read about and heard first hand accounts of. In all of my interactions with the system, either personally or through family or friends, I have only praise for the system and its doctors, nurses, paramedics, medical techs, imagers, orderlies, administrators, cleaners, kitchen, etc...
Keep smiling brother
Best
JA
Thank JA.
The way I was treated you would think I was their only patient...and so many of them know me from back to April...My surgeon for the thiroid visited, my cancer specialist came by...honestly each day was busy busy.
Feeling great...eating like a horse...eaten more in two days than previous two months...and get this...ten and a half stone...lost four stone...still its really hard to walk because I have been bed ridden totally for two months at least.
Alex
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Feeling great...eating like a horse...eaten more in two days than previous two months...and get this...ten and a half stone...lost four stone...still its really hard to walk because I have been bed ridden totally for two months at least.
Alex
Thats agreat sign Alex, body wants energy to function fully again
Still take it easy and no risky stuff,, I guess you know , but thoughts all the same..
Happy days to ya
Hi Alex, I was a Flight Engineer with over 7,000 hrs until the motorbike
accident and the advent of computers put paid to that, when I became a Marine Engineer instead. Both of those careers entailed a lot of worldwide travel. I can assure you[rather belatedly] that first world, and many third
world hospitals are just fine. If I had to worry about something foreign, it
would be travelling on many third world airlines.
Anyway, you will see in the pics that the toilets did not flush, the idea being that you used a bucket to get water from the blue drum, and tossed the
water into the pristine toilet. The blankets had holes in them, and food was
not provided. The hospital didn't have drugs, you had to get your own from
the pharmacy down the road. God help you if you were a lone traveller.
The staff were wonderful, so caring. One amusing thing was that I had a sink with taps in my room, but no water supply, and the sink had no drain pipe, just the hole that one could be fitted into.
cheers raymo
Wow Raymo, that is just astonishing, one appreciates how lucky we really are in this Country, well most of us do, except those idiots that tackle our Police on the streets most weekends, the fools.
Hi Leon, I have to say that many travel insurance companies have arrangements with good quality hospitals and/or clinics in many
developing countries. I was just unfortunate to be in a smallish town,
a long way from a large town or city where facilities would have been better.
I was taken ill in Cusco with a chest infection exacerbated by altitude, and
the clinic there was very good indeed.
raymo
Oh! and they're not fools, they're thugs.
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I have had similiar toilet experiences travelling in Mexico and Central America back in the 1970s, often with no toilet bowls at all. Funny thing is that you could buy drugs over the counter that were considered dangerous back in Canada (requiring a script). My dad had some great photos of public toilets in Paris at the end of WWII, basically holes leading down to sewer surrounded by a circular screen, a glorified latrine. Different cultures, different attitude. The Squat Blocks are still prevalent in parts of Europe today.
Hi Glen, Yes I remember seeing Frenchmen in Pissoirs as they were known,
holding hands with their girlfriends over the top of the curved screens while
having a piddle. Even today, walk along any main street in Paris [or
anywhere else in France] and you will see urine stains or streams running from a building wall across the pavement, and into the gutter.
raymo
xelasnave, thank you very much on response.
The most important things need time to be understood, this is a fact, I think.
And the last person who I would argue of doing their job, are the doctors, saving my life.
Best wishes!