gremlin wrote: Thu Dec 30, 2021 12:02 pm
Blimey. Noggin must be fretting that you're gonna nick her claim to being the most accident prone person on here.
TBF, there's a part of me that would happily let someone else have the FUF crown. But equally, I wouldn't wish my clumsiness/accident problems on anyone!!
gremlin wrote: Thu Dec 30, 2021 12:11 pm
On a slightly less painful note,
Pain, I feel pain. Just had a call from the hospital. Apparently my insurance are paying for the operation no problem. But not paying for the metal plate and screws. Gonna hit me for 1578 Euros. Shit.
1 plate
4 screws
I've just emailed to complain.
I'd say move to France, but -
Yorick wrote: Thu Dec 30, 2021 4:39 pm
Mini heatwave
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at 10 degrees today we are having the warmest December in memory, but that's still way too cold for you!!
Life is for living. Buy the shoes. Eat the cake. Ride the bikes. Just, ride the bikes!!
gremlin wrote: Thu Dec 30, 2021 12:11 pm
On a slightly less painful note,
Pain, I feel pain. Just had a call from the hospital. Apparently my insurance are paying for the operation no problem. But not paying for the metal plate and screws. Gonna hit me for 1578 Euros. Shit.
gremlin wrote: Thu Dec 30, 2021 12:11 pm
On a slightly less painful note,
Pain, I feel pain. Just had a call from the hospital. Apparently my insurance are paying for the operation no problem. But not paying for the metal plate and screws. Gonna hit me for 1578 Euros. Shit.
1 plate
4 screws
I've just emailed to complain.
Daughter in law - who is a merkin, has just got back from A&E after managing to slice her hand open on a knife in the sink. An hour in A&E, a few stitches and she’s back home and quite impressed with the NHS. No fighting with insurance companies, no worries about rising premiums. Sometimes we don’t appreciate what we have.
Yorick wrote: Thu Dec 30, 2021 3:06 pm
Gonna hit me for 1578 Euros. Shit.
1 plate
4 screws
I've just emailed to complain.
At least with these non-NHS systems you get to see how (what appears to be) trivial hospital time is costed. We take the NHS for granted in the UK, when bills come at you in a PAYG fashion it can be a helluva eye-opener.
DefTrap wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 8:28 am
At least with these non-NHS systems you get to see how (what appears to be) trivial hospital time is costed. We take the NHS for granted in the UK, when bills come at you in a PAYG fashion it can be a helluva eye-opener.
Don't need to go abroad, just take a dog to the vet for treatment. Soon find out how time, drugs and procedures can add up.
I went to see a specialist about my broken+dislocated collarbone using my work health insurance....£250 a session just to speak to him. Heaven knows how much it'd be to have him actually do something
Screws sound a bit speedy, but come on Yorick you know how much aerospace screws cost. You've managed to find one of only two fields where these things cost MORE than in an aeroplane.
All these things (vets, physios, docs) have got more expensive as insurance has got a grip on them. With the expected result that everyone needs insurance because it's all so expensive. Winner for the insurance companies.
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 9:14 am
I went to see a specialist about my broken+dislocated collarbone using my work health insurance....£250 a session just to speak to him. Heaven knows how much it'd be to have him actually do something
Screws sound a bit speedy, but come on Yorick you know how much aerospace screws cost. You've managed to find one of only two fields where these things cost MORE than in an aeroplane.
4 tiny screws. 637 Euros.
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Having a morning coffee and chocolate muffin before starting the preps for new years partying, got most of the spare rooms to get ready for people to stay over. Most of the supplies are in, just a case of setting out for later
Ant wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 9:46 am
Having a morning coffee and chocolate muffin before starting the preps for new years partying, got most of the spare rooms to get ready for people to stay over. Most of the supplies are in, just a case of setting out for later
Who's making the hedgehog? Are you using pickled onions?
Ant wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 9:46 am
Having a morning coffee and chocolate muffin before starting the preps for new years partying, got most of the spare rooms to get ready for people to stay over. Most of the supplies are in, just a case of setting out for later
Who's making the hedgehog? Are you using pickled onions?
It'll be hedgehog free, but there may be some pickled onions.
MrLongbeard wrote: Sun Jan 02, 2022 5:04 pm
Waiting on wife to tell me how bad FiL & MiL are and if I need to attend his accident scene with tools after he rolled his bloody car.
Jeez, hope I works out okay. Old folk generally don't bounce about too well...
MrLongbeard wrote: Sun Jan 02, 2022 5:04 pm
Waiting on wife to tell me how bad FiL & MiL are and if I need to attend his accident scene with tools after he rolled his bloody car.
Jeez, hope I works out okay. Old folk generally don't bounce about too well...
Just back.
Both oldies carted off to A&E for a check up, no surprise that the one that was wearing a seat belt came out of it a lot better off than the one that never does.
He's done a right good proper job of it, hit a boat load of standing water that dragged him up a high bank / berm and than barrel rolled over a metal fence (think country park type) into the field.
I only popped down to pick up their processions from the car before it gets taken away tomorrow, there was a hell a lot of claret sloshing around on the headliner, but head wounds do that so I ain't going to worry about it until I get some real news.
Given what I collected from the headliner (lump hammer, jack, axle stand, 4 saws, a nice looking fruit cake) them were lucky to walk away under their own power
Jeez, hope I works out okay. Old folk generally don't bounce about too well...