This Thread is about how a person who had a stroke in May 2021 is experiencing life AFTER the stroke. My Ups and Downs.
Has anyone had radiation treatment in Australia over the last couple of years please?
Husband has just been given the costing and it doesn't make any sense.
Medicare pays $20,000
If you have to have radiation treatment you are expected to pay a further $620,00 a week for five weeks.
Even if you are on a Part Pension or Pension!
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Australia day ?
geomac7 yrs ago
Today I saw what must be a response to some posts I have seen on Facebook. The pic saying lets keep the name Australia Day as an excuse to bag other ethnic Australians. We are a nation of ethnics one way or another and all except the original inhabitants arrived in the last few hundred years.
Sad and stupid parents.
Parents are SPARED jail after pleading guilty to manslaughter over deaths of two of their children and niece who drowned when they took them for a 'joyride' through a flooded creek after surviving son and daughter beg judge to go easy on them
Nelly and Dallan Rawlings begged Judge Timothy Wright to let their parents (pictured top left), who drove them through dangerous floodwaters in Tonto Creek, Arizona, in 2019, stay home with them. Nelly, 12, described her father Daniel Rawlings, 38, as a hard-working man and her mother Lacey Rawlings, 34, as her favorite person, telling the courtroom in Gila County: 'I love everything about my parents.' Dallan, 13, also said his life 'wouldn't be the same without them'. Wright's decision to sentence Daniel to five years of probation and Lacey four years of probation was heavily influenced by the children's pleas. He had considered whether prison time for the couple would end in a good outcome for Dallan, Nelly, and their two cousins, who also survived the flooding. He said: 'These four children have zero fault in this case, yet they carry the burdens.' Five-year-old Colby and six-year-old Willa (pictured right), along with their cousin Austin (bottom left), five, died after the Rawlings disregarded signs and barricades warning drivers not to cross Tonto Creek. They were on their way back from a family member's home and their son wanted to enter the water because he was having fun, Lacey Rawlings said in an interview played in court yesterday. The couple's military style vehicle began to sink; the Rawlings and four of the children got out and were rescued but the remaining three were swept away and died. (Pictured inset, the Rawlings couple and their children)
Ash Barty's former coach has revealed the moment that inspired the young tennis star's comeback after she left the professional circuit in 2015. Barty had been teaching children tennis in Brisbane when she received a text from champion Serena Williams urging her to return to the court. Coach Jim Joyce said he had long wanted to broach Barty about a comeback but hadn't felt it was his place. Now, six years later, Barty is preparing to face Danielle Collins on Saturday night in and attempt to become the first Australian woman in 44 years to win the Australian Open.
[it is amazing what a little bit of nice friendly encouragement can do when one is stuck in the bog of life; the mere fact that a few people send me emails to help me get my reading back from my stroke has helped me so much; also the people on this site have posted comments when I put an article in a Thread it has all helped and encouraged me, thank you]
Poor woman.
Please explain! Pauline Hanson sports a very swollen eye and large welts across her arms after being attacked by a swarm of wasps in her garden
Controversial Australian politician Pauline Hanson (pictured left) was left asking 'Please explain' following a run-in with a swarm of wasps in the garden of her Queensland home on Saturday. She took to Facebook for some advice to attend to the numerous stings and welts - and a number of her Facebook followers offered helpful suggestions
At the Tennis!
Russia's Daniil Medvedev (right) had led the match for two sets but failed to claim the title
Well it doesn't concern me if my brain is only 15 seconds slow!
Why you are seeing the world 15 seconds out of date: Your brain shows you images from 'the past' instead of trying to update your vision in real-time, study reveals
Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, have found that human brains show us 15 seconds 'in the past' instead of trying to update our vision in real-time.
My excercise for today has been weeding and cutting the dead heads off of about forty rose flowers, then I come indoors to crumb some meat and realize I have to get smashing a bag of Corn Flakes to make crumbs!
So I put the back on the floor with a whole in and then put that inside a larger back and strumpped on them to make my bread crumbs, only trouble is it is not 'bread crumbs' it is 'corn crumbs' as I cannot have too much bread in my diet and we prefer crumbed corn flakes!
So for the joys of here in WA where the chelves of the supermarkets are nearly empty.
I see that the powers that be have managed to take the food stuffs from one side of the flooding to another and put them on trains to bring them into the city and our supermarkets. I wonder how long this will have to continue?
As hubby used to design a lot of the rail over here it is a bone of contension that the rail ling is not more sophisticated than it is; the main line between the two sides of this vast country should have been designed and built better donkeys years ago. So much for Federal Politics!
Coles and Woolworths reintroduce purchasing limits to ease demand levels | PerthNow
Foreign Correspondence tonight Thursday 10th February should be interesting, just had the National ABC ration on and there has been a segment with a correspondent who travelled to Afghanistan and she is on tonight TV programme.
Foreign Correspondent (abc.net.au)
Under Taliban Rule
Here is another question that we could all think about in our senior years!
Do pensioners or seniors need private health insurance?My answer to this is yes!
We have private health cover and it nearly kills us, but with our health issues we need it as the system as it is we don't feel safe with; as it is we have to wait for days to see a Doctor, it is becoming as bad as the UK for needing medical attention here in Oz.
A comprehensive guide to health insurance for older Australians.Health insurance for older Australians is often a necessary expense.
Sometimes it might even be the only practical option for people aged 65 and above.
But the right policy should still be cost-effective and provide the right level of cover for your circumstances.
What is seniors health insurance?Health insurance isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach, which is why insurers often create specific policies for older Australians, built around different lifestyles, ages, health needs and more.
Seniors health cover are policies that have been designed to cater to singles and couples of a particular age.
Some providers offer specific policies and packages for those aged 50 and above, while others have policies more suited to retirees and pensioners aged 65 and older.
The right seniors health insurance policy can help pay for your healthcare expenses as you age.
Each policy will cater for differing needs depending on your current circumstances and your anticipated future needs.
What does health insurance for seniors cover?Health insurance for older Australians can be broken into hospital cover and extras cover (out-of-hospital services like dentists, and glasses and corrective lenses).
You can buy hospital and extras separately or combine the two.
Combined policies often offer better value.
As us older Australians tend to have different he