Good Luck Gunt

[macstheman]

Always, mac! Although my son’s treatment took place in the USA and I know for a fact that his first year of treatment cost $1m. Fortunately he was covered via his employment package and seeing as his treatment lasted for thirty months that’s something I’m eternally grateful for.
Whether such a figure can be justified or whether it’s drug companies playing ‘insurance’ games I honestly don’t know. I suspect the latter which is scandalous, but I remain grateful.

It just confirms how special our Health Service is and why it must remain so. This am I've once again witnessed it doing what we've, perhaps wrongly, come to almost expect it to do! For two days my wife has been in severe abdominal pain but has refused to seek medical advice (stubborn bugger that she is), however my daughter contacted 111 and, following a medical assessment, has now been admitted for a suspected acute appendicitis. So Sunak, "do not touch"!
Hope everything works out OK for your son and for your friend.

[ramAnag]

It just confirms how special our Health Service is and why it must remain so. This am I've once again witnessed it doing what we've, perhaps wrongly, come to almost expect it to do! For two days my wife has been in severe abdominal pain but has refused to seek medical advice (stubborn bugger that she is), however my daughter contacted 111 and, following a medical assessment, has now been admitted for a suspected acute appendicitis. So Sunak, "do not touch"!
Hope everything works out OK for your son and for your friend.

My son’s case was approaching five years ago, mac...leukaemia...which would have been a killer just a few years ago. He’s been fine for the last three years and we were out on his Harley just a week ago so touch wood and all that. My friend I’m not so optimistic about but where there’s life...
Hope your wife is soon better mac...and many condolences Gunt.

Strangely, considering the quality of the medical facilities in the USA, there was the same old problem with the food and we ended up taking stuff in much of the time. Starbucks etc seemingly on every floor of the hospital but the in-house stuff was very poor.

Had to use the 111 service about ten years ago for my own wife and that whole service was brilliant. Shocked at some of the patients I saw in the Royal Derby though. Older ladies who could easily have gone home but who had no one to care for them so the hospital ended up doing the job of social services/care homes and what can only be described as ‘rogue males’ who really were a danger to others but who nurses and security staff alike were seriously restricted in how they could ‘handle’.

It’s a major problem but for all that we should treasure the NHS and I agree wholeheartedly with your comments about Sunak and Co. Hope you have a more than ‘normal’ life span Sith...sounds like, as you say, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t.