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I have an online account with Wise bank (UK), and this has operated just fine since I opened it last year. Since I am currently in the UK, I was eligible to get a Wise ATM 'real' card. I requested this on the Wise website a few days agoand selected a 4-digit PIN to use with the card, and confirmed this using the 2-step OTP to my mobile phone. The Wise website confirmed that the card was being sent to my UK address. Fast-forward to today, and no sign of the card in the post. But when I logged into my Wise account, I was horrified to see 3 separate transactions using that new card! The first was an Uber Taxi transaction for zero pounds, to check if the card was activated, the second was about 6 pounds from Uber Eats and the third was about 170 pounds (big meal!) from Uber Eats. Naturally, I notified Wise immediately, froze the ATM card and transferred the remaining balance in my Wise account to my bank account in Thailand. I hope that Wise refunds me for these fraudalent transactions. But how was it even possible to charge that card? Surely it needs the authorisation PIN? Surely Wise don't send a 'live' card by unregistered post? Perhaps someone who has a UK Wise ATM card can tell me if one needs to provide the PIN to buy Uber Eats etc...... I've checked my laptop for a keylogger, viruses etc, but nothing found.

AFAIK they are a bank, because I have an account with them with a UK banking sort code etc. They also issue a hard-copy ATM card. Recently, transfers to Thailand take about 24 hours, as opposed to 24 seconds.

OK I understand that you already had an orchiectomy. As you say, it helps to suppress cancer cell spread for a limited period of time. Good luck with whatever treatment you have. Sheryl can dertainly provide expert advice.

What I'm saying is that if hormone treatment is too expensive for you, a simple $50 operation achieves the same....

Sheryl will correct me here if I'm talking complete rubbish. I understand that chemo therapy and Lucrin etc are to reduce the testosterone hormone level in your body. Is not a far cheaper and simple solution to have an orchietomy (remove of testicles under local anaesthetic)? (I am undergoing prostate cancer diagnosis etc in the UK, and have spent several months researching my options at each stage, should the cancer return after prostatectomy, radiation treatment etc).

Lol, if you check in another thread, I had expensive private medical insurance for many years. When it came to make a claim, they accused me of trying to defraud them and cancelled my policy! This was because I had failed to declare slight BPH (verbally diagnosed many years previously, but never mentioned by any Thai doctors during my annual health checks subsequently). Even though the BPH was unrelated to my suspected prostate cancer, the insurance company said that I should have declared it..... Ho hum....

I moved back to the UK on February 7th with suspected prostate cancer. I registered with a local GP and was seen by a doctor at that surgery 3 days later who referred me to the local hospital for diagnosis. 1 week later I had my first consultation, then another 1 week later. I will have my biopsy in 3 days from now. I have been allocated a 'telephone buddy' who calls me regularly to remind me of my appointments and in case I have any concerns about my ailment and treatment. Having not been in the UK for 21 years, I had 'saved up' some other ailments for the doctors! I phoned my new GP to make an appointment and the call system put me at number 10 in the queue. After 10 minutes wait, I was allocated a doctor's appointment for 2 days later. At that appointment, I was allocated a walk-in anytime x-ray at the local hospital for this particular ailment. For another ailment (eyes), I was given a very detailed eye examination and test which identified the problem (Rutin failed miserably to identify any problem at all!). Prism prescription lenses in a decent frame for just 25 quid from Vision Express were provided. The only medical work done on the NHS which cost a bit was 80 pounds to have a dental bridge glued back in place... 5 minutes of work and thanks for your money!! Meanwhile, having registered on the 7th of February, the NHS 'system' sent me a colon cancer testing kit through the post, and letters to remind me to have a free Covid vaccination, free flu and free pneumonia vaccination if I needed them..... So far I'm pretty happy with the NHS response!

That's because they also sell soft drinks Coke, Fanta etc...

Can a complete tear heal naturally? I'm no doctor but I'm thinking that if it has completely torn off then surgery must be required.

They do survey work for the BTS, asking if your journey was OK etc ????

Mind you, SpaceX did have a few failures before they managed to land that first stage successfully back on Earth ???? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9FzWPObsWA

More to the point, what is the English translation of 'manky'?! (Joking here of course, but I thought manky was a very colloquial word only used in Leicester in my youth...)

Yes, during a stint at Hereford. I can't tell you what I was doing or I would have to kill you. But you can ask the other SAS wannabees in this thread... ????

I tend to use Nong for an adult or older teenager, but หนู for a younger girl of say 14 or 12 years old (yes, they do work in restaurants at that age, usually in the family restaurant).

I've often wondered how many active profiles are on this forum, out of the 200,000+ profiles that are registered.

Nope, but the Falklands are thousands of miles from the UK and I suspect that the British government doesn't have the 'bottle' or even brain cells to do what Maggie managed to do.

Agree with rwill - it is very common for older adults to call young waitresses 'nu'. I use it myself and I don't think that it is a condescending term - it basically indicates that I'm old!!

This might not end well. Britain's navy is now severely depleted and no PM was as tough as Maggie. I'm sure the Argies know this and realise that they can take the Falklands by force and Britain will be unable to do anything about it.

Absolutely. Methinks this non-native speaker is confusing 2 English words with completely different meanings. It's like saying 'alive' (ie not dead) is similar to 'live' (ie not hatched from an egg). But as Xylophone comments. it seems true that some men are completely unable to function on their own, in that they have never learnt daily skills such as cooking ,sewing on a button etc. Others crave for social company, perhaps because of lack of their own self-confidence or esteem. Right now, and for the past month, I have been living in a tiny and very basic hotel room in Blackpool, about 3.5m x 2.5m with a tiny attached loo and shower, while I go through the diagnosis and treatment for suspected prostate cancer. There is no-one else staying at this guesthouse (who wants to visit Blackpool in February). Am I lonely? Is my mental health suffering? No!! It's certainly not a place that I would choose to stay for a prolonged period, but it is a new experience and I'm very used to and very happy being on my own. Although I have to comment that after 21 years living outside of the UK, there are some typical British activities that are somewhat foreign to me ???? Being lonely and being alone are worlds apart.

Bangkok Phuket Hospital has a dock/jetty for the speedboat? I think not:)

Look where the woman is standing on that busy road. Does she have a death wish?

I maybe missed it, but how did your broken ankles occur? What was the situation?

My ham radio activities have gone haywire!

Not often. The last was an Israeli boy a few years ago. He died ????

I have been living on the island of Phangan for a while, after being unable to return to my teaching job in Myanmar, (the junta chaps don't like the British government right now!). Phangan is very nice, but I am aware that I am not getting any younger and more likely to have some medical issues as I get older. As I am fairly fit, exercise and have a vegan (ish) diet, the likelyhood of some sudden medical emergency is still low. About 5 weeks ago I was stung by a box jellyfish which normally results in a rapid death. I was extremely lucky to survive, but the experience was very scary and the local hospital could do nothing except watch me to see if I lived or died! They had no kind of medication, even though box jellyfish are common. The locals rubbed vinegar all over me while waiting for the ambulance! I don't expect to find box jellyfish in Chiang Rai of course, but I am thinking to move from Phangan to a rural location which does have a reasonable private hospital, such as Bangkok Chiang Rai hospital. I'd appreciate any comments or experiences of hospital care in Chiang Rai.