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Is there anything good about getting old?
Getting closer to not having to read @transam's posts ++++++++++++++++++++++++++emojis. -
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Apart from Thais working in the tourism sector, does anyone actually want Russians here?
Fair play to him. Trump I mean. Hope they had big bums to boot! -
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Is 1 million baht enough to retire in Thailand?
203 THB per day without housing cost and without a permission to stay is absolutely nothing. -
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Apart from Thais working in the tourism sector, does anyone actually want Russians here?
Vlad has it over Trumpy. He has a tape of Trump getting urinated on by a couple of Russian hookers apparently. -
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Varicose veins - treatment seems odd?
I have had a few small purple blotches around my ankles for 20-odd years. They have never got better, or worse. It runs in the family, and I am the youngest of six. All of my elders have had them for years, without anything getting worse. Over the last few years, I have developed bulging veins in both legs. Again, two of my elders have had the same issue for years, and none of them have been operated on or anything. My mother had it also and had the veins 'pulled out like spaghetti' when she was around 50 years old, which is my current age. It's obviously an issue, and the fact that none of my elders have had a serious problem with it should not serve as a deterrent from my getting them sorted. So, I found a clinic in Udon Thani who specialises in this kind of thing. The doctor there spoke amazing English and seemed very much on the ball. He is a doctor at the local army hospital and works this clinic evenings and weekends. He diagnosed varicose veins instantly, without even touching my legs, and said it could be dangerous in the future. I don't doubt that. He said I could lose a leg in the future (I think he said 10 years or so upwards) and am currently 'mid-range seriousness'. He said the procedure is a chemical injection directly into each problem vein. This would cause or prevent (I forget which) thrombosis, effectively blocking the vein and stopping blood flow within it. That, he said, is the cure. All good so far, in terms of consultation. But my spider senses kicked-off a little because he seemed to switch to sales mode. He wasn't hard selling, but I just got a general sense that he was keen to close me, and get me on the procedure table right there and then for my first couple of injections. Hard to explain, really, but it just felt more like a beauty clinic environment where they are keen to do business, as opposed to treat patients, if that makes sense. The word 'special price' and 'great offer' was thrown around quite a bit. Each injection, apparently, is one vial. He said I may need up to 12 vials total, at a 'special promo price' of 65,000 baht for all 12 injections/vials. One being, one vial, kinda thing. He said we should do the most potentially dangerous 2 or 3 veins first, then I can have the others done over a month or two, at my own leisure, until we have used all 12 vials. I asked him if I might have a DVT, or if there is any chance of having one. I never have pains in my legs, apart from a tiny, almost insignificant feeling of discomfort in one of the veins, on my calf. He said there is no chance of having a DVT as I don't present with the symptoms. He also said they can not check for DVT at this clinic, which made me wonder if that was his motivation for being so certain that I do not have one. I told him I would go home, think about it, and come back to him. In fairness, there was no charge for the consultation - although I made it clear that I would be back to pay the 65,000 soon just so I could wrap things up and get out of there. By the way, I also asked him (candidly, I guess) if I could have it done at the army hospital he works at. No, he said. "they not have this special injection there". Hmm. Seemed a bit odd. Sorry about the long-winded post, but I have a few questions about all of this: 1) Is this the correct procedure for varicose veins? An injection directly into the vein? What is the general approach by a regular hospital? 2) Does the price sound about right? 65,000 for 12 vials/injections? 3) I did previously think I had a DVT, as I had a pain in my left calf a couple years ago for around one month months. At one point, I was limping for a week or so. I was told by a different local clinic that I had a DVT - but then got a scan at a hospital later, and was told I didn't. The pain vanished, and never returned. Maybe it was something else, I have no idea. However, how can the doctor at this clinic I just visited be so sure I don't have one, just by glancing at my leg? I thought DVTs were invisible to the naked eye? Whatever you guys thing I should so, basically. Would I be better off going to a local hospital, maybe? -
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Is 1 million baht enough to retire in Thailand?
I have been here a lot longer and live in Bangkok in a 2-story house, 160 sqm inside and a garden. No way you get that for 4500THB. -
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Is there anything good about getting old?
When you were younger, how many times a week did you have sex with a live woman? Company doesn't count, feeling them up doesn't count, only bareback penitration. I doubt I managed more than once a week, and I've never met any guy that managed more than that in the west. I used to think once a week was pathetic, but compared to most other normal guys I was incredibly successful with women. I even turned the fat ones down! -
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Great cheese offer at Makro - Buy 1 get 1 FREE
If Blue Danish doesn't "stink" it's not a good Blue Danish. Need that bacteria still kickin'.
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