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Thanks Xylophone.; Yes, I'll take these results back to LifeSciences where I assume they have a competent doctor (they all wear white coats, but I don't think that they are selling ice-cream!). As you say, it seems that I need a course of intravenous antibiotic injections to shift this bacteria which has taken up residence for quite a few years in my prostate/urinary tract. I hope they do not have squatter's rights...

Right! And I just have the results which indicate that the bacterial infection is E.Coli ,but E.Coli with ESBL, which is resistant to certain antibiotics. I recall that this is what the doctors found 18 months ago when I had UTI tests in the UK. The results also indicate what antibiotics the culture is resistant to etc - I reproduce the result sheet below.

I don't use air-con... 🙂

Jeez, so many erroneous assumptions! You surely must be living under a bridge!

37,000 Palestinian 'martyrs' to rescue 4 Israeli hostages? Another (about) 120 hostages still held? Well, the Palestinians better get used to another (120/4) x 37,000 deaths.... Terrorism doesn't pay and the so-called innocent Palestinian civilians are anything but innocent. They have the power to remove Hamas.

Time to dust off the ol' pirate radio transmitter! In my misspent youth I built many transmitters for land-based pirate stations in the UK and worked for a while on an offshore station somewhere in the stormy North Sea. Hmm, how about a DAB pirate transmitter? 🙂

I think your 'over-the-top' description has left me with PTSD....

@scubascuba3, the action of having regular health check-ups can actually trigger suspicion by medical insurance companies if you make a claim. "Why were you visiting the hospital so many times over the years? You must have had some illness/pre-existing condition!". I had this problem from April International (France) when I made a claim. They stated that I must have had a pre-existing condition that I knew about, because I had regular hospital check-ups! The logic of their argument is 'crazy'!! This is why I try not to disclose any health check-ups to an insurer, even if I'm given a 100% clean bill of health.

Well, with your definition, then the USA is third world..... there are more than 4,000 AM and FM non-digital radio stations in the USA, plus another 2,000 or so HD (digital) radio stations.

Judging from the photo, it would seem that the Thai man has 'lost face' 🙂

You can check after the plane crashes.....

Very easy to find - use ultra mild baby shampoo - no fragrance!

A little story that I've told before on this forum: About 20 years ago I lived in Saladaeng and managed my UK 'sex-chat' text messaging business remotely. (This was an AI chat app called Natachata that the BBC reviewed at the time and said it was a good candidate to pass the Turing test - fooling users into thinking that they were chatting with a real human). At that time, online advertising wasn't 'a thing' and so I mostly advertised in top-shelf printed media with a company called Goldstar Publications who published the most 'inappropriate' sorts of magazines. (Think of your dear old grandma being 'serviced' by a well-endowed black guy...). Anyway, Goldstar would publish my adverts each month and then send me a copy by snail mail to prove that they had published my paid advert. But I told them that on no account were they to post this disgusting material to me in Thailand because I would probably end up on some porno criminal charge. But they didn't listen! Every month, about 10 different top-shelf mags would arrive at my rented condo in Saladaeng and I would hastily put them in a black bin bag and throw them away. One day, the usual assortment of absolute sex filth (!) arrived and I quickly put them in a black bag and went to the communal trash can facility on my floor. As I was pushing the bag into the already-full can, the bag ripped, exposing the absolute worst kind of depraved pensioner-sex porn to the Thai cleaning lady. "They're not mine" I babbled, going bright crimson. "Mai ben rai" she said. "I make very good money every month from selling your magazines - I watch you every time you go to this trash can!!"

Such a useless response! I replied honestly to your post and because my reply doesn't fit your narrative, you flounce... 🙂 Welcome to my ignore list. Update for other posters: My PSA result just arrived from the lab: 8.9. Now on the face of things this might sound bad! But it's down from the 12 - 15 value from 18 months ago. My lab results indicate an UTI (as usual), and so I'm very happy that my PSA value is only slightly raised above my 'normal' value of 6. The lab is currently checking the bacteria to see what it is. By the way, I always consider Life Sciences to be good value for money. A general blood test, PSA test and specific urine culture test costs 1,800 baht.

Because I go to the dentist regularly for teeth cleaning and check-up 🙂

^^^ My teeth are fine. What is this deep intense cleaning that you speak about?

My ex-wife #2 worked in a bar in Bangkok. She had some good attributes: - She was a cute size, not fat - She gave me the best sex that I ever had, (no doubt due to her vast previous experiences!!). Unfortunately, she was also 50% 'mad' and 50% 'bad'. Some of the things that she did reduced me to fits of giggles. Some of the things she did reduced me to tears. I used to have long chats with the local pharmacist as he looked through his medical drugs book to see what drug we could give her to reduce her paranoia and bipolar episodes. Anyway, finally it all went bad after she got pregnant from a gay hairdresser and them claimed that I was the father... I divorced here and took myself off to teach in Myanmar, safe in the knowledge that the mad bat wouldn't follow me there. We still keep in occasional contact via FB. She's a lot older now and her hormones have calmed down.

This is a follow-up to my previous posts about my prostate problems. I'm posting again because I'm back in Thailand after 18 months in Laos, and therefore have easier access to blood tests, competent doctors, medicines etc. Here's a brief history of the problem: I have mild BPH for many years, but can function fine with a daily pill of Alfuzosin. Because of the BPH, my PSA is raised somewhat, typically about 6.0, but steady About 2 years ago, when living on Phangan Island, a PSA test showed that my PSA had increased to about 15. So I went and had an MRI prostate scan at Bumrungrad which showed 2 shadow lumps within my prostate. The hospital suggested a biopsy to investigate further, but due to some insurance problems I was forced to return to the UK for further treatment. A biopsy was performed (24 samples), and none were positive for cancer. The doctor suggested that the lumps were beign calcium stones. Importantly, myPSA value was raised above my normal 6.0 due to long-term UTIs. The doctor in the UK had delayed my biopsy for almost 2 months while he tried different antibiotics to eliminate the infection, but he was unable to achieve this! The UTI remained.... So he went ahead with the biopsy and the results were all good. I returned to Laos and the UTI has remained ever since. Now I'm back in Thailand, I just had a blood/urine test. All looks good with (of course) the exception of my UTI, with a high level of white blood cells in my urine. I do not think it is a good idea just to let these prostate infections continue. I'm wondering if I should follow a path of further investigation to identify exactly what bacteria is present in my urine. I recall that my UK doctor said that it was the common E.Coli. To confirm this, is there a urine bacterial test that can be done? My blood/urine test was performed today by Life Sciences (Pattaya), whom I have used for many years. Perhaps I'll go back with my urine results and ask if they can identify in detail what bacteria is present. I followed the advice of posters (Xylophone and others), who previously suggested specific antibiotics to take. Alas, none of them cleared up my long-term UTI 🙂 The UTI does not cause me too many problems, but I simply feel that it's not healthy for me to have this UTI on a continual basis. So, any suggestions as to a step-by-step process to eliminate this UTI once and for all? Thanks.

[quote] I have another friend running a few airbnb’s on the same housing estate, they list them separately even though they are all identical, perhaps it’s related to hotel licenses, I don’t know. [/quote] Actually, this is because the Airbnb 'system' was set up to rent out single properties or rooms. With other 'channels', such as Agoda and Booking.com, their booking system can manage multiple rooms and will interface correctly with the hotel's 'channel manager'application, which allows the property owner to place all available rooms on as many channels as they like, safe in the knowledge that if a customer books a room on one channel, the channel manager software will automatically deduct one room from the number of rooms that are advertised on all the other channels. Airbnb cannot do this! Their system interface to channel managers is .... krap! So the only way that the owner of several rooms can advertise on Airbnb is to list each room separately, and then manually manage the channel manager room quantities for the other channels. So... it's a technical problem, because Airbnb was not set up to list multiple, similar rooms by the property owner.

You won't need a hotel licence, but you will need licences/permits from your Tessabahn

No - they were purpose-built buildings with 5 guest rooms.

It also depends on the rules of your local Tessabahn office. A hotel licence has a lot of regulations that are enforced. But if you are not a 'hotel', then you still need an operating permit from your local Tessabahn, and that comes with regulations. When I operated 4 small 'hotels' in Phuket, none of them were actually 'hotels'. But they all still needed operating permits and the properties were inspected every year and permit fees paid.

The lifeguards should have given the thief a good kicking - physical punishment is remembered more than a financial penalty. (I hate thieves...)

I once stayed in a cheap hotel (more than once!). I put my hands on the basin in the bathroom and it came completely off the wall.... This was useful info for me when I started to build small hotels in Phuket. I always bolted the basin to the outside wall of the bathroom, using long bolts that went right through the wall to the outside. You could sit on the basin and it still stayed firmly attached to the wall 🙂

My father was born and raised in Alexandria (his British father was doing something with the military). His household was English-speaking, but my dad also learnt fluent Arabic to converse with the local staff, as well as fluent French because the only decent school in the town was the French Lycee. He only left Alexandria just before WW2, and never returned. In fact, during Nassau's period my aunt (his sister) did return to visit Alexandria and was promptly thrown into jail as a British spy 🙂 My grandmother is buried in Alexandria, but I've only passed through the airport on my way back to Bangkok some years ago on Egypt Air.