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And for those that do not know - a medical dose that you receive does not give you a buzz or make you high - just glorious pain relief and a willingness to fight it out a little bit longer.

Being a sick foreigner in a country it is a little hard to tell what is going on. Living through the final stages of cancer I have been told the limits of morphine dosage are a dose per six hours. Of course no one tells you how much a dose is

General rules that I have found dictate 3-4 hours as the min. between dosages.

Usual Adult Dose for Pain

IV: 4 to 15 mg every 3 to 4 hours as needed. Give very slowly over 4 to 5 minutes. Starting doses up to 15 mg every 4 hours have been used. Chest pain: 2 to 4 mg repeat as necessary

Continuous IV: 0.8 to 10 mg/hour. Maintenance dose: 0.8 to 80 mg/hour. Rates up to 440 mg/hour have been used.

IV patient controlled analgesia or subcutaneous patient controlled analgesia: 1 to 2 mg injected 30 minutes after a standard IV dose of 5 to 20 mg. The lockout period is 6 to 15 minutes. The 4 hour limit is 30 mg.

In a lot of places they have the hen peck box where you push a button to get your own dose.

Morphine is a serious and potentially lethal drug but used appropriately is a god send. The greatly improved manufacturer of the product and the fact that it's effect does not fade with use etc. makes it a much maligned drug in my mind especially in my current condition. My wife is an expert on drugs of all types and she insists I will be a drug addict even though I surely won't be here to witness it.

Sheryl Can You Help Explain all this to me?

Beiing in Thailand I am not going to change Thai ways but I would like to know why their does not seem to be a consensus on use, timing and dosage.

As a closing comment on my need for help.

The Bangkok Bank Organization and it's willingness to help during these difficult times for me was outstanding. Never be afraid to ask for help.

Thanks again one and all but especially to the wonderful people at the Bangkok Bank.

The whole tax issue with me was that this was/is all combined with SS benefits which was just easier to deal with through home bank. things are much different now. Many good offers of help. Thank you all.

Currently receive pension retirement benefits to my bank account in US and then transfer to Thailand for tax reasons.

Trying to set up Bangkok Bank New York account for auto transfer to Thailand to wife and child upon my death for beneficiary death benefits.

Bank is saying I need to authorize my wife and child as beneficiaries to Bangkok Bank in New York but since the money would be sent to their new accounts in New York by pension companies at the time of my death this makes absolutely no sense to me.

It is up to my pension companies to change accounts to transfer amounts and beneficiaries upon my death and not BKB. Am I missing something here? I am not intending on changing current deposit accounts at this time for reasons per-mentioned - tax.

I really need some up front and personal help on this one as the local rural bankers seem to be missing something or I am to far gone to think clearly.

Help would be most appreciated.

I am sick in the hospital and will post in general so please move where appropriate.

DEET does not actually kill insects, but repels them from treated areas.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/resources/deetgen.pdf

Enough of anything will kill just about anything but Deet is not an insecticide.

I use Calibre as well but would not recommend it for converting PDF files to another format. Although Calibre works great for conversion of e-book, text, and html files it does a very poor job with most PDF files - a fact that the author of the Calibre program readily admits.

If you do not care if you read the PDF file in the original format (2 column etc.) and wish to convert it to a single column e-book format with variable font size the only thing I have found that does a pretty good job is by using Adobe Acrobat Professional and using save as to convert the PDF document to an html file which can then be converted by Calibre into a standard e-book format. Calibre for some reasons refers to html files as zip files so do not be surprised when an html shows up as a zip.

As mentioned previously, PDF is pretty complex and if you want a good conversion Adobe is the best way to go. Perhaps an expensive way to go however and be aware you will likely be changing the format of the PDF.

Just an observation - on the Kindle touch reading pdf files is very difficult as the formatting is maintained and therefore you are fitting an A4 or 8 1/2x11 document in most cases on something half as big. Would highly suggest you try what ever catches your eye with some pdf files to see if your reading glasses are strong enough. Very small and if you magnify you lose the overall layout view of the document.

If you are direct depositing your funds in a foreign bank I believe withholding a percentage greater than 0 will be a requirement. When depositing to banks in the US this is not a requirement and you can specify 0 withholding. I do not believe withholding is a requirement when depositing in the Bangkok Bank in NY as this is in the continental US.

Let me think ... Burma was the Brits ... Cambodia and Vietnam was the French ... and Thailand was the Japanese. A questionable history. Where does the US really fit into this picture? Certainly not as a Colonial power. And who really wins - I think China.

The museum at The Bridge is called the JEATH railway museum. The acronym is for the poor souls that took part in the 'action' Japan, England ,Australia, Thailand and Holland, I didn't grace it with my prescence.

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So the Thais during the war were similar to the Non Jewish Slovakia then? Basically the bitches of their conquering power, who pretended to themselves that they were sort of allies to them, and took part in and horrendous atrocities but come out the other side smelling of roses? Doesn't surprise me at all. anything for an easy life and a buck on the hip.

Perhaps the Yanks wanted to keep Thailand sweet though? The communist movement was gaining momentum in Vietnam, Korea was kicking off, and they needed somewhere for their soldier to get some R+R.

If you read accounts of POWs working on the Burma railroad though, it is clear that the Japanese treated the local Thais with disdain and not better than they treated any other conquered nation.

That's a rough way of putting it but ehm...............true

The communist aspect wasn't an issue immediately post war though......that came years later after the US realized they had lost the greatest chance in human history to " impose " their values of democracy and freedom on the World.

I put the word " impose " in brackets as I do feel that the core values of the US are worthy values. Another US foreign policy eff up caused by the professional diplomats and politicians being overwhelmed..........as well as the US allowing itself to be held hostage by the anti British Irish lobby.

Mental stuff.

You should not confuse US core values with US political incompetence. They are two separate things.

Does the US get no credit for defending a free Europe?

From my personal experience many Thais were not brought up with toilet paper but used items similar to the Sears Catalog. This is not something that works well with plumbing. City Thais may be used to biodegradable toilet paper but the out country folk have not had a lot of experience with it. Plus it is pretty expensive compared to the other methods the out country folk use for cleaning up. Certainly a standard septic system has no problem with conventional toilet paper but a non digesting septic system (cement rings) may cause problems.

Maintenance done. Total downtime 20 mins + 25 mins = 45 mins.

Is the forum loading faster now?

I must have dozed off! I was under the impression I have been on for the last several hours? Must be magic.

Edit: My point being "What downtime?"

the United States didn't even punish them.

DP25 is broadly correct......I highlighted that statement as it's highly relevant as to what happened next. I've had a good look at the workings of US foreign policy after the war at the best that can be said is that the US was overwhelmed. Too many people were making decisions with major implications way above their pay grade and this in turn caused long lasting and debilitating effects.

The status of Thailand was one such mistake.

Please elaborate.

A well-organized resistance movement numbered around 90,000 Thai guerrillas,^[6] supported by many government officials allied to the regent Pridi Phanomyong, was active from 1942 on to fight the Japanese. The partisans provided invaluable espionage services for the Allies, as well as performing some sabotage, and in 1944 helped engineer Phibun's downfall. After the war, however, Thailand still received little punishment for its wartime role under Phibun.

Most manual car washes will remove the tar for you but it will cost a lot more than a standard wash.

Having had the vaccination shots 20 years ago I requested that a blood test I was having checked for my immunity. Blood test came back no problem as antibodies still strong. Just a suggestion for the next time you get a blood test.

Doesn't rice make up a huge proportion of the countries GDP?

Yep. But this year it is also a huge proportion of the government's spending.

Sorry but i never said that. Use the quote function properly please.

See post #63

Hmmm, I wonder which is the harmless white lie? Guess we'll find out when either the flood comes, or the drought comes crippling the agriculture industry. Doesn't rice make up a huge proportion of the countries GDP?

GDP = private consumption + gross investment + government spending + (exports − imports),

Lately seems like rice is more of a big drain on GDP

Outstanding! Thank you for your response!

One of the most surprising results was that there seemed to be little difference between reefs maintained by conservationists and those left unprotected.

Dr Bruno and Ms Selig argue that the consistent pattern of decline across the study region adds to mounting evidence that coral loss is a global phenomenon.

This is probably due to large-scale processes such as climate change, they say.

This is likely to have a major impact on many island communities, which rely on the reefs for fisheries and tourism.

http://news.bbc.co.u...ure/6936634.stm

Note that the article quoted above is a little dated and things have continued to go down hill. This is a multifaceted problem and not just due to troublesome tourists. The OP is a good article but should look at the overall causal factors and not just a few.

Traveling late at night is not against the law although you must carry some type of id. Traveling at night with a lady, as long as she is Thai, is also not a problem. So what is your problem?

maxme - you have many good and valid points regarding the US and I think one would be hard pressed to find a country superior to the US. The point I am making is that regardless of what country you are from and how perfect and developed you consider it to be there is always much room for improvement and for one to regard their country as fully developed is ludicrous. I am certainly not accusing you of doing this but Americans have gotten a little lazy in my opinion and need to work a little harder at protecting their rights and improving their government. A 10% approval rating of congress is a travesty and a 10 year state of emergency overriding constitutional rights is plain stupid. You do not need to cross out the constitution to fight terrorism.

Thailand has its problems and definitely ranks below the US on the developing scale but the US is still a developing country as well.

Black List by Brad Thor - Very well researched with a lot of facts mixed in with the fiction. A spy type thriller about certain groups controlling information gleaned from the internet, all computer databases and electronic transactions. Very up to date tech wise and so far a pretty good read and pretty hard to draw the line where the reality ends and the fiction begins. Scary stuff.

Thailand dropped the state of emergency declared due to reasons everyone still remembers in a relatively short time frame. This restores the rights of the Thai people which were temporarily overridden by the emergency declaration. Seems appropriate that this should be the case.

The United States has been in a state of national emergency continuously since September 14, 2001, when the Bush administration invoked it premised on the September 11 attacks. In September 2010, President Barack Obama informed Congress that the State of National Emergency in effect since September 14, 2001, will be extended another year.

The National Emergencies Act grants various powers to the president during times of emergency, and was intended to prevent a president from declaring a state of emergency of indefinite duration.

At least two constitutional rights are subject to revocation during a state of emergency:

• The right of habeas corpus, under Article 1, Section 9;
  
• The right to a grand jury for members of the National Guard when in actual service, under Fifth Amendment.
  

In addition, many provisions of statutory law are contingent on a state of national emergency, as many as 500 by one count.

http://thenewcivilri...011/09/09/26714

Raises some questions in my mind about developed and developing.