josephbloggs

On 9/14/2024 at 4:34 PM, josephbloggs said:

Just an update she had the surgery on Thursday. We have been very happy with the surgeons and the care at Vibharam. She is obviously still there and recovering but so far so good.

About an hour ago we had news back from the lab that it is benign, just a pretty large tumour which would have had to be removed anyway (around 10cm). After the CT scan we were told that it is 99% cancer.  Samitivej scared the pants of her - especially with their pressure - but Vibharam was more measured, but even so they said it is almost certainly cancer. So to hear today that it is benign a fantastic thing especially as my wife isn't old and we have two kids.

But hooray for Vibharam so far.

Just to conclude if anyone is interested, my wife got released from Vibharam today - just four days from the kidney removal surgery. The doctor said he was impressed with her speed of recovery and it was safe for her to go home.

Total bill: 231,860 baht. We were initially given an estimate from them of 350k so that is a bonus, and fair play to them for only charging the real costs and not just giving us a bill for 350k (which we would have paid).  Really good care, not a single criticism of anything at Vibharam, I was pleasantly surprised.

I think this thread can be closed now or just left to die. 

2 hours ago, bkknirvana said:

 

I am an unvaccinated realist.

Ok, so both then. Fab.

7 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

I fixed it for you.

 

 

 

You guys are using different crystal balls it seems. Is yours diesel powered?

1 hour ago, NativeBob said:

just like a jewelry - you can buy at posh areas of Central Dept. stores, or you can buy almost exactly same-same at Yowarat, or you can manage it yourself - not casting and setting, just "manage"

 

Same for scanners - they all very similar Phillips, Toshiba now some Chinese one. But quotes can range up to 300%. 

In this case I would agree, but not true for everything, Sometimes you do get what you pay for.

We were quoted 1m baht for the surgery at Samitivej and almost pressured in to signing up for it immediately. Vibharam (literally 5-10 minutes away AND closer to home) will end up being around 350k. Same operation. Same level of care. Actually a nicer room. Same food. No grand piano in the lobby, no Au Bon Pain, and a bit less English spoken which was not a problem for us - the doctors obviously spoke English, some of the nurses did not, but my wife is Thai and I can speak Thai.

If insurance was paying I would have chosen Samitivej just based on reputation and the "luxury" factor. But it wasn't, and my wife didn't feel comfortable with the high pressure selling and felt more confortable with the doctor's bedside manner at Vibharam, so I saved 600-700k by going to another perfectly good hospital that didn't pressure us into making life changing (and expensive) decisions on the spot. At the end of the day I would have gone wherever she felt good as she is my children's mother and that is the only important thing, money was not a deciding factor as it was a potentially life altering decision. (I am not rich, but I could have found a way).

Both my kids were born in Samitivej, my wife had a knee operation there many years ago, I paid for them all myself and was very happy. But in this case I can't see how anything would have been any better by paying for the name of a more famous hospital. Actually many of the same doctors also work in government hospitals and Sheryl recommended a very good one but there would have been a wait and we didn't want to take the chance of waiting.

On 9/6/2024 at 7:21 PM, Sheryl said:

Wishing you (and her) all the best. 

Just an update she had the surgery on Thursday. We have been very happy with the surgeons and the care at Vibharam. She is obviously still there and recovering but so far so good.

About an hour ago we had news back from the lab that it is benign, just a pretty large tumour which would have had to be removed anyway (around 10cm). After the CT scan we were told that it is 99% cancer.  Samitivej scared the pants of her - especially with their pressure - but Vibharam was more measured, but even so they said it is almost certainly cancer. So to hear today that it is benign a fantastic thing especially as my wife isn't old and we have two kids.

But hooray for Vibharam so far.

21 minutes ago, G_Money said:

Bye bye EV’s.  Glad I never got to know you.

Another well thought out comment from a rabidly and illogically anti EV poster who knows absolutely nothing. Thanks for taking the time.

Now maybe you can go and pollute another thread with your ill informed nonsense. I believe someone called Donald Trump an idiot in one of the news threads, maybe you can hop over there to defend him. Byeeeeee.

29 minutes ago, Captain Monday said:

It is a requirement without a punishement.

 

We have been coming to Thailand for 26 years and have only been asked once or twice

My boarding pass usually is on my mobile now , I throw paper boarding passes in the bin in the planes lavatory.

I do this purposely to shame them. When I fly on KE with airline staff discount tickets I cannot use the mobile boarding pass however.

 

 

Last week at Chiang Mai Airport, I was asked for my boarding pass by some little dyke.

I thought I left it in my seat back pocket, so I told her my flight number. Done.

A new record?

 

25 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

What a moron.

5 hours ago, Cameroni said:

 

I'm telling  you these EV drivers are worse, just yesterday I had one of these EV Villeneuve wannabees tailgating, cutting through traffic like he was on the Nuerburgring.

 

The accelaration in EV cars is beyond their capability to harness. The less of these cars we have on the roads the better it will be.

Don't you guys bleat on about range anxiety all the time? Full throttle acceleration all the time would deplete your charge quite rapidly, no? So do they have range anxiety or are they all tearing around like lunatics? You can't have it both ways.

If they are tearing around like lunatics (in your world) then I guess range anxiety isn't an issue.

1 minute ago, Cameroni said:

 

EVs are driven like race cars here, disregarding all rules of traffic, because EVs car have instant acceleration the drivers think they're in an intergalactic star battle.

 

Worse driving than that by EV drivers I have not seen. Even Pick up drivers pale by comparison.

You must live in a parrallel universe. I don't see that (and I'm not an EV driver).

Nothing is worse than pick up driver, mini vans and - the worst of all - Fortuner drivers.

48 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

Toyota makes excellent and fairly priced cars that are on the whole far superior to most of the underpriced Chinese fire hazards sold as EV cars, that have mostly poor range and take forever to charge.

Your ignorance is astounding. Why post in threads on a subject you have an illogical hatred of and clearly know nothing about? I don't get it. You couldn't make yourself look more stupid if you tried.

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they are mostly driven by people who can't drive. EV drivers are worse than pick up drivers now.

More rubbish. To me EVs seem to be very sensibly driven, at least here in Bangkok. Never been tailgated by one, never seen one acting like a dick and "rolling coal" either.