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So, if only I had memorized my PEA account number, I could be golden. Of course, I haven't tried this with PEA in my current situation, but in the past when I bill-payed or transferred money, my banks (SCB & BBL) used OTPs via SMS. Since I bought a new mobile phone after I left Thailand, I didn't have the SCB or BBL apps installed. SCB Easy requires a mobile connection to a Thai number to register. For the BBL app, after going through the registration process it also sends an OTP via SMS to finalize set-up. Have to use a Thai phone number, and then they send an OTP via SMS. That sounds like what I did to set up my auto-payment for PEA with BBL.

I have a condo in Jomtien that I left in early 2020 and haven't been back since. I had planned to return at least once a year, but well, Covid. Before I left I loaded up my Bangkok Bank account with funds and had PEA set up automatic payments from it. Each month the PEA deduction was just under THB50. A couple weeks ago I got an e-mail from AIS (who I also set up for automatic payments from BBL) that I was overdue a couple months, so I checked my BBL account balance online. Yikes, I had let the BBL balance run out! I immediately transferred (Wise/Transferwise) a deposit to BBL, and I see that on 11-Oct PEA withdrew THB47.87. That's a relief, but they never took a payment for September. I expected the October bill to be the current THB47.87 plus the overdue September balance (plus possibly a penalty.) Will PEA at some point cut off the power to my condo for non-payment of the Sept bill? (I would like to make bank transfers from with my BBL or SCB bank accounts to PEA and AIS for past due balances, but the banks require SMS confirmations and I can't get the AIS SIM to establish a connection where I am in Mexico. I used to be able to, but now I can't. It may be due to the fact that I'm overdue on the AIS account, but regardless the reason I can't do any bill-paying from here...)

My math skills are fading, but if the population of Thailand is around 70 million, that's one in 70 that gets bit per year. So in three years, if it's three million people who get bit, that's one in 24. That's a lot! Something must be wrong with my reasoning/logic/math because that would mean over a ten year period, one in seven people would be bit by a dog. Surely that cannot be?

What is the expected benefit of taking that cocktail of meds? Doesn't seem like anything that would make one high. Maybe if you had a killer migraine headache?

They used to run min-van shuttles to hotels & condos through Pattaya/Jomtien. Have they down graded to songtaews now? (If so, where do they put the luggage?)

Aha. That's it. It probably was closer to the end of the flooding, which would explain why the lower part has so much water.

I saved this photo from a ThaiVisa.com post back in 2011: That looks a lot worse than the photo in the OP:

From the ThaiVisa.com News Editor e-mail: ????

This point really resonated with me: I'm single, entering my late 60s, and have a condo in Jomtien and a house in Mexico, but have always been vaguely aware I might need to repatriate to the USA (I left in 1994) due to Medicare. I recently developed a health condition that may indicate a sooner-rather-than-later return to the USA. Yes, medical costs for uninsured folks are cheaper in Mexico & Thailand, but they are even less in the USA if you have at least Medicare A&B, and especially if you have Part D and a Medicare Advantage plan. Would I rather burn through my retirement savings on medical expenses outside the US, or spend the savings on housing in the USA for affordable health care? I'm still debating, but currently leaning toward repatriating to the USA. The existing socio-political mess of the USA and where it will head next is distressing, but I suspect I will just bite the bullet and see what happens.

I realize you're going for humor, and it's totally fine, but if using a catheter *without the bag* shorts are much more practical. I'm currently in (what I hope is a temporary, transitional) stage of diagnosis/treatment where a bag was installed at an emergency room, but my urologist (after hearing me swear about the bag) installed just a catheter without the bag. MUCH better! Now, to get sorted so I no longer need anything inserted in my groin area...

Actually, if there is lightning with the rain, that's true? I believe ramp workers can't be out on the tarmac if there's lightning, or prediction of lightning.