Safer to live next door to an hospital ? In which case ?

[PatchinExPat]

On 6/12/2020 at 2:17 PM, NancyL said:

Good advice about having someone contact you daily if you live alone.  I would suggest, that your friend acts immediately, not wait a second day.  We were the "buddy" for a lady who lived alone and when she didn't send her usual "good morning" email, Hubby went to her apartment to find she'd had a stroke during the night. and got her to the hospital ASAP.

 

We live a few hundred yards from a good hospital and it's come in handy because Hubby has seasonal cluster headaches.  They're like migranes, but worse.  The golden treatment for them is to breathe pure oxygen for about 15 - 20 minutes.  They come on several times a week, always in the afternoon, in November and December for him.  He simply stays close to home during the cluster headache season and when he feels one coming on, he walks to the hospital where the E/R nurses, know him well and hook him up to the oxygen right away.  Fortunately, his right eye starts to tear about ten minutes before a headache, so often he gets to the hospital just as a headache is starting. 

 

Without the oxygen, he'd be in agony for several hours.  The pain is so bad, that people have been known to kill themselves during a cluster headache or be killed or tased by police because they want to walk around and keep moving during an attack, i.e. not follow orders to be still or lay on the ground.

Why would he not have an O2 tank at home, rather than crowd up an ER

 with something he is used to and knows how to treat,

[PatchinExPat]

On 6/12/2020 at 4:31 PM, Bender Rodriguez said:

why not take care of your body & mind

 

so you DON'T NEED a hospital, except a CAR accident, a fall, a mugging, stabbing...

Why not open your mind to the thousands of possible needs for a hospital

 that good nutrition and exercise will displace.

 

True, most people do not need a hospital on a regular basis until the 

years of life catch up, but if you live long enough, they do catch up.

 

For average people , such as I expect you are, their medical expenses in the

last yr of their life exceed all cost of medical care up to that time.

No matter what age the last year comes.

 

 

[thaibeachlovers]

On 6/12/2020 at 11:16 PM, Pedrogaz said:

with at least one from a top hospital like Bumrumgrad.

LOL. That place exists to make money. I doubt they'd tell one that one didn't need treatment. I had several fillings redone till I worked out they were just re doing them to make money out of me.

[Dap]

2 hours ago, NancyL said:

We looked into this, but amazingly CM Ram charges just 50 baht for Hubby to come in to breathe oxygen (using a facemask and tubing he bought from them), while attractive, concerned nurses check on him from time-to-time.  Some years he doesn't even have cluster headaches and some years he does and when he does they last for 8 - 10 weeks and not every day. 

 

It didn't really make financial sense to invest in an oxygen tank for him, especially considering he walks through Kad Suan Kaew mall to get to CM Ram hospital, so he can handle a few errands on his way home since he's at KSK almost every day anyway.

 

He gets a 10 - 15 minute warning that a headache is coming because his right eye tears and the headaches always come in the mid-afternoon, when he's usually at home.  That's enough time to walk to the hospital.

That makes perfect sense. After I read your reply, I looked up my original bills and in 2015 I bought the tank (medium)  & trolley for 3500 baht and separately the regulator kit and mask  for another 1900 baht, and I would guess during these times the cost of those items has increased somewhat. And since there is a warning that allows for ample time to CM Ram, 50 baht for the service is a wonderful alternative. 

[PatchinExPat]

Most of my life in the USA I lived any where from 10 min to 40 min from a 

very good hospital.

Luckily I never had emergency need of any of hospital.

At my decision to live in Thailand , at 66 yrs old, I accepted

that an emergency situation could very easy be the end of

my life.

 

I am at peace with that decision now at 71. 

I understand aging, I have seen many live years with 

others spending hours and day taking care of them.

As I did for for my wife who had early onset Alzheimer's disease. 

 

I won't claw for a for days or even years to my life,

 every day is a good day and also every day is a good 

day for it all to end.

I no longer have expectations from life, just a desire to 

feel at peace no matter what the the next hour brings.

Yes, I am sure my body will scream for oxygen if breathing

becomes difficult, at least for a while.

 

 

So go ahead and spend your nest egg, so you don't feel 

you have to struggle for that last breath or the wrong people

will pi$$ off your hard earned dollars when you are gone..

 

 

[scoupeo]

On 6/14/2020 at 7:01 PM, PatchinExPat said:

Most of my life in the USA I lived any where from 10 min to 40 min from a 

very good hospital.

Luckily I never had emergency need of any of hospital.

At my decision to live in Thailand , at 66 yrs old, I accepted

that an emergency situation could very easy be the end of

my life.

 

I am at peace with that decision now at 71. 

I understand aging, I have seen many live years with 

others spending hours and day taking care of them.

As I did for for my wife who had early onset Alzheimer's disease. 

 

I won't claw for a for days or even years to my life,

 every day is a good day and also every day is a good 

day for it all to end.

I no longer have expectations from life, just a desire to 

feel at peace no matter what the the next hour brings.

Yes, I am sure my body will scream for oxygen if breathing

becomes difficult, at least for a while.

 

 

So go ahead and spend your nest egg, so you don't feel 

you have to struggle for that last breath or the wrong people

will pi$$ off your hard earned dollars when you are gone..

 

 

 

 

I am sorry, but do you have many conditions now ?

I am still far from you, but I hope that when I will be 71, I will be healthy enough to live until 100 !

Don't you envy people who are 90 and still doing strong ?!

I have no idea about what I am speaking about, but when seeing these 90 people having a happy life, I would like to live a similar one !

Please tell me more ? your experience can be interesting.