The Fugitive

Very helpful and uplifting information. Thank you.

Wonderful success! Thank you for the encouragement.

Thai Mrs booked a promotional breast cancer screening at a well known private hospital. Imaging ‘strongly suggested cancer’. Doctor confirmed cancer which has spread to underarm lymph nodes. Five biopsies taken now awaiting results. When my mother had cancer 11 years ago the doctor told me 'when lymph nodes are up even palliative chemotherapy is useless'. My question; Why has the hospital taken biopsies if it’s hopeless?

From what I can work out, the booby-trapped pagers were unlawful weapons; 'The pager is being adapted to convert it into a booby-trap of the sort addressed by Article 7(2) of Amended Protocol II and on that basis it would appear, considering what is currently known and assumed, to be an unlawful weapon'.

https://euaa.europa.eu/country-guidance-afghanistan-2020/621-crime-against-peace-war-crime-crime-against-humanity

I would respectfully suggest this category might cover it; ■ 'killing or wounding treacherously a combatant adversary'.

Wasn't the case for me. I went from agent to 'doing it myself'. My Immigration Officer looked at the previous retirement extension stamp and asked; 'How much did you pay your agent?'. She said if I wished, she could do it for less.

Both Mrs and myself have iPhone 8 Plus. Purchased when five years old from our local friendly mobile shop. My iPhone 7 Plus went to my stepdaughter who still uses it without complaint!

Only one computer doesn't recognise one of your external hard drives? You used the other computer to copy your TV shows etc. onto your other external hard drive? Then everything is backed up and safe! As Photoguy21 suggests, the problem may 'resolve' itself. Nothing to worry about.

OP has relatively recently purchased a new machine with Windows 11 pre-installed. Assuming the external hard drive uses NTFS file system I can't see any problem there?

As you state, Cigna Global are good (if not the best). However not cheap! The difference seems to be that cheaper companies (at least all those I tried) excluded pre-existing conditions. That included a diagnosed condition that had not recurred for 40 years and had not required any medication since. Only Cigna Global took into account the fact of how long ago it was and that I was not currently receiving treatment. They determined the condition 'resolved' and therefore not excluded.

Many thanks for your information. Proves it's vital to keep up-to-date! I had a look and the only age limit is now the minimum one of 18. Unfortunately, I'm outside the specified weight range of 40-100kg. In case you aren't already aware this appears to be up-to-date; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0940960217301504#:~:text=The body donation programme began,south) that accept body donations.

When I last looked into donating my cadaver the rules stated up to age 65. It wasn't clear whether that was when you applied or when you died. Either way, I was over the limit. The Mrs insists on traditional Thai funeral with guests, food and drink over several evenings so she's taken out Life Insurance on me. Cancelling that now would involve loss of premiums paid to date.

Agree. Have (or rather my Mrs does) a 2012 Mitsubishi Pajero V6 3 litre petrol automatic. Purchased in 2020. Only repair necessary has been steering rack which cost 14,900 baht supplied and fitted. Seats 7 with ease.

As you state the main thing is getting pain relief when you need it. That and avoiding suffocation. I too am entitled to UK NHS treatment. However, end of life service is something our NHS don't want to do. Once you reach the stage where your health cannot be improved any further you are no longer entitled to remain in hospital. At home you get three fifteen minute visits per day by a district nurse. I would also like to know the cost in Thailand of the essential drugs needed in your friends case.

Wow! That's really impressive. Mrs bought 1995 Toyota Mighty X for 80,000 baht in 2017. It became difficult to start, lots of smoke and we finally burnt out the engine by failing to keep an eye on coolant level. Add 58,000 for engine repair. Respray also. Keeping hold of it as sure it'll become a classic!

Your family must be very adventurous! Possibly for many the change from burial to cremation came about due to family graves becoming full? I recall that from around 1963 Catholics were allowed to be cremated. I only knew one family in UK who kept cremation urns on their mantlepiece. According to the church they should be interred in consecrated ground. The family urns here in Thailand were kept in my mother-in-laws house until she died when we purchased a column for the local temple.

Well thought out! In UK I was totally sick of gridlocked roads. Even after the peak morning traffic a local journey might be at approx 6mph. Small town Issan provides me with Lotus's, Mini Big C, three 7/11's and CJ More plus independent shops, cafe's, barbers and coffee bars plus local community hospital all within 1km from home. We like to travel but mainly Nationally only. Next larger town is 11km distant and has railway and bus station. Regional airport (63km about 1hour) was domestic only but has recently enlarged by building an international terminal.

Can confirm this. I was diagnosed with and treated for hypertension in 1986. No recurrence, hence no medication since. I collapsed with low blood glucose in 2018. Cheaper companies insisted upon excluding both as pre-existing conditions. Cigna Global determined that my hypertension was 'resolved' and, as I wasn't diagnosed as diabetic following the collapse, no exclusions apply for either.

Thanks for that! Tried Testmy.net and I'm getting 1.2 Mbps down and 1Mbps up. Same for both True and AIS. Proves I don't really need it because I've never noticed. Certainly not for two phones. I have streamed audio via bluetooth to car media player and that was satisfactory.

I thought that too. I'm on WiFi at home and almost everywhere else. I just wanted cellular data for the odd occasion when I'm not. I have True pre-paid on my main mobile and AIS pre-paid on my backup phone. I've subscribed to the 1Mbps unlimited data add-on packages at 1,800 baht per annum for both. Admittedly, the speeds vary, considerably. Just done a test now and I'm getting 101Mbps downstream and 5.15Mbps upstream. Most times it is around 50Mbps down and 25Mbps up. Approximately the same for both providers.

My Thai Mrs has a necklace that she's had since age 18. Whenever she has spare cash it gets weighed in and a more expensive one purchased. Since we've been together I've upgraded it each birthday. She's content with 20,000 baht! She says all gold shops are the same. In our town we have two or three in each adjacent street! She doesn't seem to fear being sold underweight or fake gold. She's never heard of that happening.

Does anyone really need unlimited calls and texts these days? Why not pre-pay, maintain minimal balance and validity so that you could make the odd call and receive SMS. An add-on unlimited data pack can be bought for 1,800 baht (150 baht per month).

Very kind of you to try to help. At the end of the day it isn't your problem though. His relatives in the US should be the ones taking responsibility, organising his funeral and releasing his assets. It may seem heartless but it won't make any difference to the gentleman now if you were to distance yourself from this dilemma.

Thanks for your info, very useful to know these things. My Thai Mrs has a friend with a mobile phone shop. He takes part-exchange and we've bought laptops and tablets from him as well as phones. My step-daughter was happy to get my iPhone 7 plus when we upgraded to iPhone 8 plus two years ago. I had an Android phone from same year which even then wouldn't instal the app for my neo-bank. Two years later our iPhone 8's remain good. How much longer remains to be seen but from my experience I will continue buying 5 year old secondhand iPhones.