poppysdad

Thanks everyone, I’ll tell my wife to get 2  just to be on the safe side.

Beginning of next month I have to do my first extension based on marriage. I’m well aware of just about all requirements and have to do 2 piles of paperwork. I know my wife needs to go get a Kor Ror 2 from the local office and dated within 7 days of application but do I just need one original from office and make a copy of it or do I have to get 2 originals - 1 for each paperwork pile. 

My wife readily admits driving standards are far superior outside of Thailand but then contradicts herself by saying that falangs do not know how to drive here. 

As the OP I have to agree with Billd766 that’s it is very nice to not have any sarcasm etc posts and thanks to Sheryll for her moderation in keeping it that way. 
And it does indeed help to find that I’m  far from being alone with the problem. Wandering around our Robinsons earlier today I say an elderly Thai lady being pushed in a wheelchair and nobody that I could see gave her a second glance which does give me that confidence that I really need to have in being dependent on someone else and not being self conscious about it. 
My problem comes and goes with one minute I’m breathing reasonably ok but when I went to try in a new t-shirt the effort involved in taking off and putting on another one had me gasping for breath half way through requiring a good 5 minutes sit down and doing breathing exercises before a recovery to continue walking. 

You can get Trelagy in this country, I think it’s available from Bangkok Hospital group. I take Anoro also from GSK which has 2 of the same ingredients which is available in many places. 

Yellowtail, apology fully accepted. As to why I might be embarrassed about being in a wheelchair was what my original post was about, how did you feel when suddenly you cannot get about easily and need someone to push you and indeed some replies were that that some feel that way, and yes we’re all different and have different reactions to sudden different personal situations. And I know we shouldn’t have any stigmas about it but some do and I’ve yet to experience it. The wheelchair is under serious consideration and I do want a  quality one. Today I managed to walk around our local Robinsons relatively easy for an hour or so but yesterday I was wheezing just watching the telly, every day is different. 

I’m not sure how I should feel, but health wise my ability to walk far is disappearing not due to legs but breathing. I’m beginning to feel that leaving the house is soon possibly being a no go but my beloved Thai wife is now insisting we get a wheelchair and she’ll happily push me wherever we want to go.

My reaction to this probably quite wrongly is a feeling of embarrassment even humiliation from being someone not so long ago could climb a mountain if needed to to now having to be pushed around to go anywhere at all. 
So, how have others felt and coped when it has happened to them, just being grateful that you have someone willing to help or do you just hope that no one you know ever see’s you. 

Shortly after my first AstraZeneca covid jab I experienced severe breathing problems, I went to my usual clinic who put me on oxygen and a nebuliser, took a blood test and sent me for chest X-ray. 
The blood test along with the X-ray showed clots on my lungs, I was prescribed a rather expensive blood thinner for 2 weeks and the next test came back all clear and my doctor decided I not need them anymore and have had no problems with clotting since. 

The only reason why I mentioned the possibility of my atm card needing to be replaced where my account was opened was that on an occasion that my card got stuck in the atm the nearest branch to where I was did cancel my card without any hassle but told me I had to go to where my account was held to get it replaced. 
As for a new pass book I’ve had that renewed where I am now along with cancelling my credit card and getting my deposit refunded. I do get charged 15 baht on the odd occasion I use the atm but a check on how much it cost me in the past 12 months amounted to less than 500 baht, I can live with that. 

I moved to a distant province from where I opened my bank account 18 months ago and have yet had no reason to have to return to the original bank branch for anything including statements and bank letters for immigration. The one reason I might have to that I’m aware of is in losing my ATM card for any reason

I’m always reading in the news about something happened downtown or people are going downtown, occasionally I read a reference to uptown but I’m not aware these are British expressions and I’m not entirely sure what/where they mean. The only logic I can come up with as it’s meaning a town centre so what/where does the term mean. 

I had no problem getting a new Bangkok Bank book from a different branch to where my account is. 

As heading says, I’ve been trying all day to do a transfer and even though Santander are sending me security messages all I get is an “ooops somethings gone wrong” when completing and sending the pass code. 

I simply filled in the tm30 with my name and the new address, copies of my various passport pages, (most of which were handed back to me), wife’s I’d card, copy of house book page showing house number, we handed over everything to immi officer, he spoke a few times to my wife but I don’t know what was said and 10 minutes later we left with the tm30 stapled into my passport. All was very easy. 

My wife’s name was not in the house book for our new house as she has other houses and we had no problems when we went to register me on a tm30 because of it. 

The seller guarantees lowest price, free returns within 15 days so as I’ve yet to receive the product and pay for it he can also offer me the lowest price now and I will keep it. 

Nodisplayname, I think it’s very poor marketing policy to contact a customer who has yet to receive his order that it’s now 1500 baht cheaper for everyone else, he actually went out of his way to send me the message. Yes I agree that had I had the product a few days you would be correct and I would happily live with it. I did contact him and the reply was simply “sorry dear” which sounds very patronising to me. So if he can reduce it by that amount he can also take the loss on delivery costs and I’ll order from another company. 

Between Xmas and new year I ordered an item from a manufacturer on the Lazada app to come from China and following tracking it’s now arrived in our local Flash depot so probably out for delivery tomorrow. 
 

However, around lunchtime I received a notification from the manufacturer via the Lazada app that I can now order the item for just over 9000 baht, when I ordered it was 10500. This has angered me, and no it’s not from a different seller, it’s the manufacturer. I haven’t either received or paid for the item yet and now it’s 1500 baht cheaper so can I simply refuse to accept delivery and leave Flash with the problem of returning unpaid to sender. I then can  reorder at the new lower price if I feel I still want to deal with this manufacturer who feels it’s good marketing policy to send a purchaser a promo of a lower price when he’s not yet received original purchase.