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HIP REPLACEMENT SURGERY IN THAILAND
I had hip replacements on both sides. I did both in my home country, for 2 reasons: 1. I have seen many hip replacements done here, and the results were quite often not satisfactory. Having said that, from my 2 hip replacements, 1 was botched. And the usual international hospitals do have surgeons who do a good job. I did consult them, but I did the procedure in Europe. 2. The main reason I haven't done it here is the complete lack of post-operative aftercare and rehabilitation. Here, they send you home after a couple of days in hospital, and then you are on your own. What you really need is intense physical therapy for weeks and months. This includes ergotherapy (like learning how to get into a car or how to have sex), teaching how to walk (with and later without crutches), later adequate strength training. You do need professional guidance for all of this. This is just as important as the surgery itself. In Bangkok, you can't even walk with your new joint, let alone with crutches. You need a stretch of even ground, as long as possible (100m would be boring like hell after a while, but where in Thailand do you find 3km even, walkable ground?) (Small things: in Thailand, I couldn't even find a wedge shaped cushion for my body weight - more than 50kg. Hard to find decent crutches, too.) -
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Can you defend yourself?
The problem with defending yourself in public interactions is that usually the person attacking you has nothing to lose, while you have everything to lose. Some random loser in a bar or on the street picks a screaming match with you. He might be overstaying his visa, has just enough money to pay rent for the next week, has no job or career, and if he’s Thai, he could be earning just 250 Baht a day. Meanwhile, you’ve built your entire life. Saving for retirement, making investments, pursuing education, advancing your career, and sending your kids to an expensive school. If he gets arrested, it doesn’t matter to him. If you get arrested, you could lose everything. So usually you keep your head down and walk away, makes you look like a 🐈 in front of everybody. Because you’re not willing to risk losing everything over of some loser. --- Defending yourself in a life-or-death situation is, of course, different, but I think there is only a small chance of getting into such a situation. -
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The 'noise gardener' problem at my condo
Thai's like noise. They think quiet attracts bad spirits. -
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U.S. says Russia funded media company that paid right-wing influencers millions for videos
Most of it would be via the wingnut wurlizer. They post it and then it gets passed around and reposted thousands of times, so you don't always know where it originally came from. -
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Hunter Biden's Surprising Last-Minute Guilty Plea in Tax Evasion Case
Is it also you, Bignok? 😆 -
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Hunter Biden's Surprising Last-Minute Guilty Plea in Tax Evasion Case
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Hunter Biden's Surprising Last-Minute Guilty Plea in Tax Evasion Case
That is a lie. Prove it. -
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Periodic COVID updates for the United States
My summary: Amid new signs of easing in the U.S.'s continuing mid-year COVID surge, weekly COVID deaths rose again to a fully reported tally of 971 for week ending August 10, more than triple the weekly low of 308 COVID deaths in early June. Still, the current weekly COVID deaths tally remains less than half of that reported at the beginning of 2024 amid the now-typical year-end/holidays COVID surge. The rate of sampled hospitalizations due to COVID reversed prior weekly increases and began declining for the week ending August 17. Two other publicly reported COVID forward-looking indicators -- Emergency Department visits and positive COVID testing rates -- continued modest prior declines in the latest update through August 31, though the positive COVID testing rate remained high at a 16.3% rate. CDC COVID update for Sept. 6, 2024: Weekly national summary "COVID-19 activity remains elevated nationally, but there are continued signs of decline in many areas. COVID-19 test positivity, emergency department visits, and rates of COVID-19–associated hospitalizations remain elevated, particularly among adults 65+ and children under 2 years. Surges like this are known to occur throughout the year, including during the summer months." https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/data/index.html According to the CDC, the "early indicators" of COVID test positivity and COVID related Emergency Department visits both declined slightly for the week ending Aug. 31. The rate of COVID hospitalizations also declined slightly, but the rate of COVID-related deaths rose for the latest reporting periods. Deaths are typically a trailing indicator compared to the other statistics. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home Reported COVID deaths in the U.S. reached nearly 1,000 (971) for latest finalized reporting week ending Aug. 10: * the three gray columns above indicate totals for those recent weeks remain partial. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00 With the absence of any comprehensive COVID infection testing and reporting program in the U.S. and reduced reporting of COVID hospitalization data, public health officials increasingly have turned to wastewater monitoring of COVID viral content as a primary forward-looking indicator of COVID activity and trends in the country, as follows: "Wastewater (sewage) can be tested to detect traces of infectious diseases circulating in a community, even if people don’t have symptoms. You can use these data as an early warning that levels of infections may be increasing or decreasing in your community." https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-nationaltrend.html https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-currentlevels.html -
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/Featured Quiz 6 September - Weekly Featured Quiz - General Knowledge
I just completed this quiz. My Score 40/100 My Time 118 seconds -
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Can you defend yourself?
Straight away my right hand goes up to apologize saying its my fault sorry,, as I'm saying this my left slips into my pocket and right into my diamond encrusted knuckle duster, goes everywhere with me, even wear it in the bath, As im shaking your hand for the 3rd time, Bang,, ive hit you with a left hook breaking your jaw... -
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Can you defend yourself?
This is very rare, scarce, unfeasible, almost impossible. I always stay under the radar, keep out of trouble but some people go looking for trouble, it's in their nature, look at some of the members here, even sitting behind their keyboards they want to antagonize, provoking others regularly, going out of their way to interact with hostility, calling people rude, nasty names. I'm lucky, I have good genes and take care of myself. I'm in good shape, tall, fit, so I probably don't fit the description of a random attack, these people look for the frail etc. It's a strange world, at times I see these frail weak people causing trouble, thinking that they won't get a smack in the mouth but if you annoy someone enough or take on the wrong person you will suffer the consequences. Bring back the BIFF, some people need a lesson in life. -
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How on earth do you Diet in Thailand ?
To lose weight healthily: Each day.... Eat two 5-egg omelets Eat one can of tuna Eat one chicken breast Eat rice with each meal Drink Sichuan green tea Repeat daily. The above contains almost zero sugar. Use vinegar, soy sauce, white pepper, chili pepper for any required additional flavoring. Eat bread and tuna, as desired, for an extra snack. -
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Bringing a bike into Thailand as sports luggage
I've taken 2 bicycles into Thailand. Never a problem. There's a parable I recalled, although the one I remembered was about Garlic across the France/Belgian border. The one I find online is about Sand on the Mexico/US border. Story here. -
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Trump Has 'Very' Rocky Moment On Fox News As He Repeatedly Denies Being Weird
Ahh yesssssss. Huffpost, a bastion on honest, extremely unbiased, integrity.
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