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oobar

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  1. oobar

    Tattoos

    From any distance greater than a few feet, tattoos look like a skin disease.
  2. I've been getting drugs from India for several years with no problems from this supplier: malcolmexporters AT gmail.com Email and ask the price for whatever you need. Very nice and helpful people.
  3. My wife of 53 years thought she perhaps needed new prescription glasses but first went to arguably the best (and most expensive) hospital in Thailand for a detailed examination. Although she hadn’t noticed it, the examination revealed that she has cataracts in both eyes. However, she was told that in less than an hour procedure, both lenses can be replaced and her vision corrected as well. Because of our ages, we self insure, so are prepared for sudden medical expenses, but we were surprised by the estimated cost, which seems stiff. The doctor’s fee of 80,000 baht is high enough, but the hospital charge – this for an outpatient procedure – runs as high as a cool 139,000 baht. I guess they have to recoup the cost of their high-tech equipment. And then there is the price of the lenses themselves – 116, 000 baht -- for a grand total of 335,000 baht. Does anyone have any experience with an alternative hospital that can give comparable quality service at a more reasonable price? Once again, Sheryl?
  4. Thanks, Sheryl. Will give this further thought.
  5. Jeez, 800 USD in the States, which I thought was expensive. I would give it a pass, too.
  6. Anyone had a PRP injection as an alternative to surgery for a rotator cuff tear? Is this treatment even available in Thailand? Sheryl?
  7. My wife and I, both Americans, have been in Thailand for 38 years, the last ten fully retired in a home we built upcountry. Most of our assets are in the US, where we have set up a revocable living trust, naming three Thais beneficiaries (as representative of three families). Nothing changes while we are alive, and we use our assets the same as before. Upon our deaths, the beneficiaries become immediate owners of these US assets, without having to go through probate as with a will. All they have to do is divide it all up. Thailand does not recognize trusts, so we have wills for our Thai property. In any case, the trust simplifies everything else, as well as avoiding the courts. Maybe the OP could go a similar route, if allowable in the UK.
  8. Daflon 500, or its cheaper generic, twice daily is helpful.
  9. I know there is no letter available from the embassy. What I'm thinking is the bank gave my wife the runaround. She should have asked to see the manager.
  10. It is indeed possible to have a tear in any of the four muscles that essentially become tendons at points of attachment in the rotator cuff. I have a rotator cuff tear, am 78 years old and have elected not to have surgery. The article about the results of not doing so was encouraging. While painful, I plan to tough this one out -- adding it to a few other infirmities I'm already toughing out.
  11. My wife recently tried to open an additional BB account and was told she would have to visit the US embassy first, for what I'm not sure. We live in Sisaket. Ain't flying to Bkk, rent a hotel room and deal with the embassy, spending tens of thousands of baht for this nonsense.
  12. Sort of like tourists, who make up 20% of the economy, which is a bit of something.
  13. This is probably correct, since the Thai word for fresh can also mean raw. It may be a comment about how raw shrimp being left out in room temperature could be risky.
  14. It doesn't matter if pitbulls are loyal and become attached to a single person. This is a common attribute among many dogs of many breeds and mixes, and is beside the point anyway. As a longtime dog breeder and owner, I've said before, as an example, that an Irish Setter whose ancestry hasn't hunted for a hundred generations will still go on point if it happens upon the scent of a quail. But pointing at a quail does not result in kids and adults being ripped to pieces, which will happen again with this pitbull if it is not euthanized.
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    Patpong

    Patpong's heydays were in the mid '80s, when there were no holds barred. Over a period of several years, I went there at least a few nights a week, often with my wife. Nothing else has come close to the spectacle Patpong was then, not even during the Vietnam war period. Oddly -- or maybe not so oddly -- we met some good people there, a handful becoming long-term friends.
  16. Got guests, who are experienced hikers, wanting to know about hiking trails in the north of Thailand. Anyone have a recommendation?
  17. You should be able to take his food away from him with confidence and ease, and he should make no aggressive tendency at all toward you.
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