Tazmo

Can you play it Online? As a Foreigner? If so how? Please

JBChiangRai, apologies, the link I sent would not open. So I attach photos of the research via AI

JBChiangRai thanks for sharing your purchase. Once you get what you want that’s the main thing, of course pricing comes into it. But I wanted “ progressive lens” which costs more, hence the increased price that I paid. I did shop around and have used several Opticians in the past, but the price is right for the type of lenses that I have. https://g.co/gemini/share/1ed564369958 The above is a breakdown of costing factors for glasses for the over 70’s.

Pay as you go. Forget these rip off merchants. I have been doing that even though I have cover. It doesn’t cover adequately for the needs of an older person. I only have it to keep the wife quiet. Doubt if I will renew it. I just paid 20K baht for a new pair of glasses. In the UK it would have been free! But my choice, Insurance here won’t cover for this nor dental treatment! Or your premium would not suit a pensioner! A friend recently had a stroke, because of his cancer, Insurance won’t cover him!! Costing him 20K baht per day. Insurance Companies play on your insecurities and they are one of the reason health care costs rises!

I have a friend who was adpoted, sadly adopted people never get to know their real parents and during adolescence some become obsessed with knowing their real parents looks; habits; customs etc. My friend has a liking for taking in stray dogs! I guess symbolically he could identify with them?? Plenty of those dogs and cats in Thailand. But this Guy’s father sounded mean and selfish!

There’s a Wine / Beer Bar in One Nimin, just down the road from your hotel. Open all afternoon but I think alcohol only at certain times 11-2 and 5pm onwards. They have reasonably priced Thai beers.

The advice from Sheryl is spot on, you should follow it. I was a Head Nurse for a Day Surgery Unit and we did very many surgical procedures, uteroscopy, where under anaesthesia ( spinal or general) they will introduce a scope and in it they can pass lighting wires and cutting instruments, which works like a drill. They can remove all the stones during one procedure. It will be a lengthy procedure, they have a screen connected so they can see everything. For such a procedure you may need an overnight stay. I don’t know hospitals in your area, but you got some good tips on those. Choose a reputable surgeon/ urologist, a Senior / Consultant for safety as well as accuracy. A complication can be a puncture in the ureter? So read your consent to surgery carefully and ask relevant questions, before and after. They could repair a puncture and you won’t know! If it were me, that’s the road I’d go down. After surgery you can try an Ayurvedic medicine called Cystone, which will help with the prevention of stone formation. You can get it Online, not expensive. I used it myself for several years, thankfully no recurrence! Coconut water is also said to be good! Good luck, shouldn’t be too major a problem if you get the right Surgeon.

Xylophone, I sent you a PM

BTW just an update, but since my post I got cover from a different European company at an affordable price, so took out a policy with them last October! I appreciate and read all the different opinions. My partner is happy for me to have Insurance, so paying for peace!

Well I tried several myself but finally decided that it wasn’t for me. Especially after 2 failed marriages, I wasn’t prepared for that high risk! I also realized that I myself needed rehabilitation from the life that I was living and partly why I came to Thailand. I had experience in working in Rehab and a great believer in it. In the UK there is a law, “ The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act”, thousands have changed their lifestyle as w result. In drink- driving for example, you will be offered courses to undertake. Or f caught for a speeding offence. Also In High Security Mental Hospitals, patients who have been serious sex offenders have been rehabilitated and returned to the community. Very few reoffend. So Bar girls can rehabilitate if they are motivated to change and given the appropriate help. Though some may need Specialist Services! 100% recovery is always going to be unrealistic. Farangs also need rehabilitation of some form. Many I know have never had a serious relationship in their own country but have money and trying so buy love! Others have had like me broken relationships, but in addition no insight into their behaviour, bad tempered; drug dependent ( alcohol included) and other undesirable behaviors that will render them useless with Western women! So it’s a 2- way thing, You can take a man out of the West but you can’t take the West out of him. A big challenge for relationships of mixed races, but never impossible, there are many shining examples. I know of a few close friends who have done well and a few who have got cleaned out! Horses for courses! BTW it doesn’t only happen in Thailand but in other parts of Asia and the World. I know for sure it’s similar in the Philippines!

The person I know who got it for 30 baht is a Thai, so not sure if that makes a difference. But you can call and find out.

Sorry that should be “ Male” Doctor

Dr Pairat ( Consultant Psychiatrist) at Huay Kaew Clinic, 66/1 Sookkasem Soi 3 ( behind Lanna Hospital), tel. 053-223060. 30 baht per tablet sold there at his Clinic. You will have to pay a small Consultation fee. Make Dr, speaks good English. Also available at Suan Prung Psychiatric Hospital, but need to have a Consultation with Dr Kaewwai, ( Female Dr, good English). You can walk in and be seen the same day. But will have to pay nurses fees as well as pharmacy ( about 800 baht in total? Maybe slightly more for medicine).

Just did mine, Same method/ visa as yours, but in CM. I go to my local BBK Bank the day before ( not my main branch) and get a letter for 100baht, the day before my visa. I also ask for a photocopy of the pages of my bank book, ( to show that the money has been in there all the required period). Immigration has always accepted that from me for a few years now. I have never got a bank statement ( costs extra 200 baht) and takes a couple days)!