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I am a 77 year old liver cancer patient living in Chiang Mai. I would like to meet up with similar liver patients in Chiang Mai for a drink.

I would like to exchange information how your doctor treats you, what medications you receive, how you go about your daily life.

Liver patients in Chiang Mai who are interested to meet please send me a message.

14 hours ago, Nick ZepTepi said:

Can you recommend the ones in Chiang Mai. I'm here and I can't find

Tao Garden in Doi Saket, Chiang Mai. About 15 kms from the city

Hi,

I am 76 living in Chiang Mai. I am a last stage liver cancer patient.

Recently I had a scary life and death experience.

If the OP is interested please message me and I can provide useful information about my experience by telephone conversation as English is not my native .

Please read up black sesame seed extract. This is a research done by a team of researcher at Chiang Mai University.

Thank you.

Went up there on a new turbo charged diesel van with my family few years back.

There is a short step slop. Saw a few rather old Toyota pickups ( Toyotas are powerful pickups ) slided down. Once up there the view is magnificent and worth the climb.

Please look up healthy electric massager at Lazada. It costs 1,499 Baht. each. I have one and use it sometimes for tight leg muscles.

Please see Dr. Dusit  the orthopedist at Lanna Hospital. He did carpal tunnel operation for me about 10 years ago.

Before the operation I had to undergo a physical examination and blood test by a medical doctor.

As I am a patient at the same hospital my medication was in their data base.

On the operating table Dr. Dusit gave me a local anesthesia somewhere on my right wrist.

The operation was over about 30 minutes.

Dr. Dusit speaks excellent English and is a friendly doctor.

https://www.facebook.com/eastwestseedgroup/

I used to work for this company in the R&D section in Chiang Mai.

Our company sells expensive seeds but of high quality.

Please send the company a message to ask where the seeds you require are available.

In case you are new to growing vegetables please ask if you could visit the R&D station in Sansai for advice.

I was the incharge of growing all the station's vegetable crops.

Farmers and interested individuals used to come to see me for advice.

My wife works in the eye operating room of the Suan Dok Hospital in Chiang Mai. The room temperature is set constantly at below 20 degree C. Cold air from the air conditioner blows down while the operation is going. Normally she works about eight hours in the OR.

Over the years her eyes have become dry.

I see her using Vislube to lubricate her eyes.

You might like to google for this eyedrop and give it a try.

I have seen suculants break the rules in thailand. It may need more water than it is getting but not as much or maybe not as often as before. You might want to try more decayed leaves in the soil,with better drainage. If you can find Perlite, (google that) and add to new soil, transplant your jade into it. If by chance you can find Perlite, let me know where you found it. I have been looking for some time here in SamutSakohn with no success. Matter of fact, I havent seen any Jades in the nurseries here either.

Winnie,

Did you get your Jade Plant in Chiang Mai ?

If so may I know where ?

I bought a few small succulents at Kamtian Flower Market behind the Lotus Superstore about two months. It is one of the stalls on the left hand side as you go into the Flower Market coming from Lotus Superstore.

I was advised by the woman seller that when reporting to use a growing medium that has excellent drainage and water the plant sparingly. For fertilizer a slow released one like Osmocote will do.

You can ask any succulent plant seller in the market for advice on growing the plant whether or not you buy any plant from him/her.

Hi jaideeguy,

I suppose you are trying to keep the seeds collected for later sowing. In that case you can use Apron 35 ( active ingredient metalaxyl ). It is a powder type of chemical effective for damping off in seedling.

You can buy it at any one of the agrichemical shops in Chiang Mai. Please refer to my list to you in our correspondence by email sometime ago. The shop would be able to let you know how to use the chemical.

If you would like to know how to prevent fungus from attacking your collected seeds. You would have to consult the Maejo University again. It has something to do with the temperature and the humidity where you keep your seeds and the type of seeds. 

That's a seed tech question.

I worked in a rubber plantation in Malaysia before.

RSS stands for Ribbed smoked sheet. There are three grades RSS 1, 2 and 3. If the latex from the field is properly filtered, processed into sheets and smoked in smoke house you get golden yellow sheets when viewed against the sunlight. They should almost be no impurity. That's RSS 1. More impurity and darker colour appear on second and third grade sheets. You see ribs on the wet sheets after going through the machine, hence the name.

SMR stands for Standard Malaysian Rubber. I am not sure exactly how it is produced.

Thank you Nienke for your prompt reply and your comment has been noted.

Nienke,

I am giving our two five year old plus English cocker spaniels a tablet each of the white colour round ivermectin every month, size according to the recommendation of the vet supply shop in Chiang Mai. Am I overdosing our dogs ?

You mentioned the injectable type. Is the tablet type just as effective ? Bringing those two unruly dogs to the vet every month for the injection is no easy matter. Luckily they are healthy and once a year for the hexadog injection to the vet is tolerable.

Thanks.

Yes stoneman you have mealybugs on your tomato plants.

You could try a tablespoon of liquid Sunlight ( the type you wash your dishes ) in 20 liters of water and spray your plants wet, once every few days until they disappear. The diluted Sunlight will wash off the mealybugs from your plants. It is also good for aphids.

For those farmers who are growing papaya this treatment is very good ( meaning in getting rid of ) for red spider mites that stay on the underside of the leaves during the dry season. Be sure to spray the underside real wet. We tried five to six chemicals at the place I worked before, nothing worked.

Third class rail travel regarding Thais .......

My wife traveled by third class train last year. She had to get a ticket from the ticket counter.

She just told me the data included on the ticket was just the same as a paying ticket : destination, approximate departure and arrival time, coach number. May be there were more data included, she could not remember.

Data from each station is submitted to the central department over a period of time so the government knows how much help it has given to the Thai population.

Payment of 300 Bht. monthly and your receiver ( possibly a Dreambox ) is connected to the internet, I am quite sure it's cardsharing. It may be cheap but illegal.

I had UBC/True Visions gold package, costing about 1,500 Bht. a month, for more than 10 years. Gave it up last year and had a shop installed a movable dish system for me to watch Free To Air channels from more than ten satellites. There are some English programmes. Quite sufficient for me because I also speak and understand a few Asian languages including Thai.

Siam TV will fix your tv.

The other place is Niyom Panich, on the the way to the airport. Telephone 0-5327-0020. Dial 0 for the operator and ask for the Service and Repair Section. Would be easier to communicate if you have a Thai speaking person to help you.

Both places offer services at reasonable price. They carry original parts. 

Perhaps the compound mentioned is sodium chlorate ( NaClO3 ).

Sodium chlorate is a non selective herbicide. You can find some information in Wikipedia.org

Cat's Whiskers Herb as mentioned by johnh101. 

You can find images of this plant in Google. Many villagers in the countryside of Thailand grow this plant around their houses.

Many years ago I had a good Dutch friend who used to work on the tin mining dredge offshore in Indonesia and later transferred to Phuket in southern Thailand. He had some Cat's Whiskers plants around his house that he brought over from Indonesia. He often had problem with kidney stone. According to him leaves from this plants that he boiled to drink cured him of his kidney stone many times.

In Indonesia they call it ' kumis kuching ', literally translated means cat's whiskers.

It's a Gloriosa lily.

You can find many such beautiful images in Google.

It is a bottle gourd, same family as the cucumber.

You can see many such images in Google.

When not so old it can be used to make soup as the wax gourd.

In ancient China, and perhaps still being done in the countryside nowadays, the matured gourds were harvested and left to dry, a small part of the top was carefully cut off and the seeds inside removed. Rice wine was kept inside the hardened empty gourd for drinking. The cutoff top was made like a stopper.

How do you download the free version ?

May be I did the roundabout way. I used Google to search for Cookienator and downloaded the free version

2.5.32 at Snap Files. It was added on August. 05, 2009.

Cookienator removed more than 100 evil cookies from the three browsers that I use. It does not make an icon on your desktop. You will have to activate the software from the program you have.

Regarding medical care please check with the district office of your residence.

My GF is a government servant and we been living for a number of years together. Last year on a separate matter we inquired if we registered our marriage at the district office whether I would be entitled to medical care as a Thai. The answer was no. I did not asked for the reason as I am subscribed to the Social Security.

Acer Service Centre at Chiang Mai is at Huay Kaew Road on the way to Doi Suthep, on the right side if you come from Kadsuankaew Shopping Centre.

Phone number 053-358-198

I drive a 27 year old Toyota pickup and had been with AIG one year after I bought it. That was long before Thailand introduced the compulsory vehicle insurance. 

I am a careful driver and had 50 percent of NCB ( no claim bonus ). All the while with AIG I bought only the third party insurance and later included the compulsory one.

Usually about one month before the expiry date of the insurance policy AIG would send me a reminder letter to renew for the next coming year. This year nothing came. I went to see their staff at the Chiang Mai office and was told that AIG would not insure anything more than the compulsory type for the Japanese made motor vehicles over 20 years.

After reading the posts in this forum I called QBE in Chiang Mai this morning. Yes, they would insure my pickup with third party plus compulsory insurance for at least 6,000 Bht a year. If I had been with them all these years it would have been cheaper.

AXA would not accept to insure my pickup with third party insurance.

Fellow motor vehicle owners choose your insurance company carefully.