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Fairy July 19th, 2022 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Sandalphon (Post 10524827)
I think my blood levels are dangerously low but there's a crisis in my country's hospitals...

Wait.. low like.. in iron content or platelets or something? Or low as in your body is not producing enough blood??

Sothis July 20th, 2022 6:58 PM

Iron. My hemoglobin is normal but I go to the hospital monthly to get iron infusions but it seemingly won't budge.

Megan August 1st, 2022 10:22 PM

The best types of dentist visits are the ones where you go to your appointment, don't need to wait for too long, get stuff checked out real quick and then get told that we'll see each other again in half a year.

pkmin3033 August 1st, 2022 10:42 PM

Can't argue with that, the cost of dental work is painful. I need to have a couple of fillings fixed - the price of not being able to go for over a year thanks to the pandemic - and I have no idea where I'm going to find the money. Glad to hear your appointment went well though!

Megan August 2nd, 2022 12:13 AM

The UK doesn't have public healthcare? I can never remember which country has and which hasn't. Except for the US because that country is just the prime example of "we don't need no health". xD

pkmin3033 August 2nd, 2022 12:26 AM

It does, but NHS dental care is absolutely disgusting. When my wisdom teeth came through badly in my 20s, they wanted me to go to hospital for extractions! Knowing full well that I have a phobia of hospitals. Compare that to my private dentist who had them out within a 30 minute local appointment on the same day. Both times. Sure, I had to pay quite a bit for it, but you get what you pay for.

Outside of prescription costs, the quality of NHS healthcare matches what you would expect from a free service. I know I should be more grateful that it's there at all considering the astronomical costs of healthcare elsewhere, but...well, my experiences with the NHS in recent years haven't exactly been positive, and my private services have always treated me like an actual person. I will grumble about the cost - like I do about most things - but I'll pay it when the alternative is either to go without entirely or to engage with something that has been proven to make me feel worse.

Megan August 2nd, 2022 9:47 AM

Yeah, private insurances are kinda expected to put a little bit of effort into providing good services. I've never had private insurance but I've never had anything really serious. Although, I'm pretty sure that once the first serious matter arised things will come crashing down really badly. I'm not known for treating my body particularly well. xD

And yeah, hospitals kinda suck. There's something really isolating about them...and all the cables that are put into people. ^^"

pkmin3033 August 2nd, 2022 10:28 AM

Yeah, if they don't provide a good service, then they don't get any business! I'm not insured or anything - although I think my work offers it, I've never looked into it - but generally speaking, I've always had a better service if I've paid for it. After my recent fiasco with my prescription I'd love to go private with that if I could, but buying it privately would cost me around £400 per month...compared to the £10.81 my prepayment certificates costs me on the NHS. Yeaaaah. Nope.

I've had more nightmares than I care to count about having tubes stuck into me...being confined to a bed, bored out of my mind...that horrible antiseptic smell...people around me being physically ill...yeah. I'd rather be dead. I don't care how irrational that is. There is nowhere worse than a hospital.

Megan August 2nd, 2022 11:48 PM

I was removing some of the pictures I had hanging on a wall. I had them glued up there with these removable gum things. But two of these places I ended up tearing part of the tapestry out. So now I have two small holes that I'll probably have to cover in some way so I don't need to stare at it.

Either the people who sold that stuff were lying or the people who renovated the place before I moved in did a poor job. :(

Sothis August 4th, 2022 8:48 PM

Canada is in a healthcare crisis. People are dying waiting for the ambulance or to see a doctor. Hospitals here are backed up for days and patients are being mishandled as a result but no one's doing anything.

We have neither dental nor prescription care here.

EDIT: I am so good at plastering up holes. We installed a lot of grab bars in our apartment for my step father but when we moved out, there was no sign they were there!

pkmin3033 August 7th, 2022 2:23 AM

Sometimes I wonder if the world is getting worse or if we're just more aware of it because of how easy it is for information to spread these days via social media and the internet etc.

I have never been particularly good at DIY...I can't even assemble IKEA furniture, haha. It's actually harder than some people make it out to be! Or maybe I'm just not very handy.

Sothis August 7th, 2022 10:54 AM

Build it yourself furniture is hard and not as hard bearing as desks/shelves that are whole.
I'm using a desk that must be 40 years old, still good as new.

I think it's just that information spreads quicker. But our individualist western society doesn't help anyone.

Starlight August 7th, 2022 2:27 PM

Kind of feels right to make my 30,000th post in here!

So... how is the weather fam? ;)

TrainerJacob August 7th, 2022 7:19 PM

Well, it’s pretty nice where I live.
I worked yesterday and today, now I have the week off. (I always rest/sleep-in on Mondays)

Arcaneum August 8th, 2022 1:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Starlight (Post 10535682)
Kind of feels right to make my 30,000th post in here!

So... how is the weather fam? ;)

hot hot hot hot warm hot boiling hot miserable somewhat sunny no wind no air hot hot hot ahhhhhhhhhhhh

pkmin3033 August 8th, 2022 2:59 AM

I'm trying very hard to just ignore the forecasts for this week. I went to pieces during the last heatwave and I don't think I can cope physically or mentally with a second.

Fuck summer.

Megan August 8th, 2022 3:41 AM

Spending a day with 36°C at work and that multiple times and never getting anything done is a good summary of what I think of this Summer. Doesn't help that Europe is trapped in a drought since at least 2018 so rain is very scarce.

ReKoil August 8th, 2022 8:40 AM

Hot, but I feel like the last couple years were worse, here at least.
It's been cloudy and/or windy regularly last several weeks, which helps tremendously.

Sothis August 8th, 2022 3:07 PM

Some fuckhead lit a fire near my house in 28 degree weather, this was on Saturday.
Never been so nervous.

Neon Pink August 13th, 2022 8:08 AM

It's been a heatwave here, but it seems to be getting better now. I personally am ready for sweater weather and pumpkin spiced coffee. Lol.

Sothis August 13th, 2022 7:11 PM

It's cool now. Compared to other places, we've had a cold summer.

pkmin3033 August 14th, 2022 2:29 AM

Today is, I hope, the last day we'll have temperatures like this. The short, sharp heatwave we had in July made me extremely ill, but I recovered from it quickly, it was mostly just an extremely bad migraine that wore off after a good night sleep and a 10 degree drop in temperature. This time its affected my IBS, has persisted for the whole week, and honestly I don't think I could endure much more of it. I don't want to rush this month since I'm on holiday for the rest of it, but...well, the sooner summer is gone, the better. Its been horrific this year.

Sothis August 15th, 2022 12:34 PM

I like summer simply because there's no snow. It looses its novelty when you grow up.

Megan August 15th, 2022 8:41 PM

We're right in the middle of yet another heat wave. I already hated Summer before heatwaves started to be a regular thing. We haven't had a proper Winter in years. It's always been way to mild. I also still prefer snow over sweating at work for days while still being forced to be productive.

Trying to sleep is so awfully unpleasant, as well. <_<

pkmin3033 August 15th, 2022 9:10 PM

tbh if I had my way it would rain all year round and the temperature would never go above 15C.

Too bad I can't afford to move to Scotland where this is a reality xD


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