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@Merl1n rough go mate. Hang in there. Nice to see an old face pop up.
On another note, Man i must have hit the lucky stick. I've had about 30-40 hospital stays over the last 10 years, 4 heart failures and a ton of organ failures due to lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. I owe the hospital system my life a few times over.
The public system has always been a1, from the first visit. Just walked into triage, they did me vitals and bloods immediately, said they look terrible and within minutes i was in a bed. Same every single time regardless of what hospital and what issue.
Never had a problem with the system and I wonder why so many others do. Normally all they have to do is a single blood test in the first half hour of being in triage and I'm in for a week with no questions asked. Wonder why so many others get the run around?
On another note, Man i must have hit the lucky stick. I've had about 30-40 hospital stays over the last 10 years, 4 heart failures and a ton of organ failures due to lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. I owe the hospital system my life a few times over.
The public system has always been a1, from the first visit. Just walked into triage, they did me vitals and bloods immediately, said they look terrible and within minutes i was in a bed. Same every single time regardless of what hospital and what issue.
Never had a problem with the system and I wonder why so many others do. Normally all they have to do is a single blood test in the first half hour of being in triage and I'm in for a week with no questions asked. Wonder why so many others get the run around?
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Normally all it takes is a bad blood test and im immediately scheduled for full body MRIs the same day even if they gotta move me to a private hospital, a ton of tracer tests and all sorts of 10k treatments. No health cover here either.
Maybe it's a blessing to have messed up blood cause it seems like people in a way worse position seem to be littered all over hallways and wait in triage for near on a whole day.
Maybe I'm just an easy one to figure out.
Maybe it's a blessing to have messed up blood cause it seems like people in a way worse position seem to be littered all over hallways and wait in triage for near on a whole day.
Maybe I'm just an easy one to figure out.
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Was thinking about you just the other day mate, very sorry to hear your loss and condolences. 
Merl1n
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Thanks people. I truly do appreciate the comments.
I don't know about 'trooper' status. I could easily curl up and give up or crawl inside a bottle and stay there. For me I think my former job brought me in contact with some of those 'Worst case scenarios' and if they can keep keeping on then what the hell have I got to be bitching about? Sure, I can look at the bloke next door, living a life of luxury and think why not me? but then by the same accord I could so easily be in my former client's shoes thinking 'thank christ that's NOT me...'. We all have to play the cards in life that we're dealt (Even if I think the damn deck is rigged sometimes) and as difficult as my hand has proven to be, there's always some poor bastard out there who's position is 100x, 1000x worse. I can't get health coverage either, but if I was living in the U.S., I'd already be dead.
I don't say any of this for a sympathy vote, not at all, but rather to give others a bit of a 'heads up'. Things may seem insurmountable atm, but have a look around and you'll find people in situations you and I can't even fathom.
P.S. I often have people tell me I look like shit and what I want to say is "You want to have a look from this side, 'cos what you can see is a micron of what I'm trying to manage..." but I try to smile and say something like "Yea, not real well. Nothing a bullet wouldn't fix tho... ha ha" and try to make light of it all. But inside I'm thinking "If they only knew..."
I don't know about 'trooper' status. I could easily curl up and give up or crawl inside a bottle and stay there. For me I think my former job brought me in contact with some of those 'Worst case scenarios' and if they can keep keeping on then what the hell have I got to be bitching about? Sure, I can look at the bloke next door, living a life of luxury and think why not me? but then by the same accord I could so easily be in my former client's shoes thinking 'thank christ that's NOT me...'. We all have to play the cards in life that we're dealt (Even if I think the damn deck is rigged sometimes) and as difficult as my hand has proven to be, there's always some poor bastard out there who's position is 100x, 1000x worse. I can't get health coverage either, but if I was living in the U.S., I'd already be dead.
I don't say any of this for a sympathy vote, not at all, but rather to give others a bit of a 'heads up'. Things may seem insurmountable atm, but have a look around and you'll find people in situations you and I can't even fathom.
P.S. I often have people tell me I look like shit and what I want to say is "You want to have a look from this side, 'cos what you can see is a micron of what I'm trying to manage..." but I try to smile and say something like "Yea, not real well. Nothing a bullet wouldn't fix tho... ha ha" and try to make light of it all. But inside I'm thinking "If they only knew..."
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Hang in there mate
