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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Celia

You may find this of help

 

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Love the wattles and I have about 5 here have had these for years -- I love the way the cocky's love the seeds when they have finished flowering too and also the way they put nitrogen back into the soil

Hi Plan B

Do you have any photos to share of them please?

The Cockys I mean in the trees.

No Celia but when the nuts come on them again I will get some this year

I came across these photos on the net.

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:) Great cocky photos, thanks Celia.

What happened to the seconds about movies and entertainment on this site?  They seem to have vanished.

Is this the one you mean Celia?

If it is, you could add it to the list of favourites in your browser so you don't lose it again.

https://forums.yourlifechoices.com.au/the_meeting_place/post/movie-review

Thanks RnR to the rescue! 

Do you know I have not had a 'Favourites' I always kept my brain working to find things!

Also the spell check on this site is American English if you have notice? 

Not very good for our kiddies at school when they teachers are trying to teach them English!!

Australia seems to have lost its way of late I think.

RnR   I put a photo on that site for the movies but I cannot find it on any of the Threads has it been put in another area of the whole site please?

No idea re the photo you posted on the movie thread.

eeeks!

How are the kids dear? The hilarious photoshopped pictures father sends his girlfriend when she checks up on themDad sends pics of his kid in hilariously photoshopped danger whenever his girlfriend

Run by a Belgian dad identified as Kenny Deuss, the ' On Adventures with Dad ' Instagram page, which boasts 255k followers, along with its Facebook iteration show everything from him spilling hot coffee on his newborn daughter Aster, drinking alcohol with his 2-year-old daughter Alix, and even one of little Alix sledding directly into oncoming barbed wire. Kenny and his girlfriend, who is not named, have always taken a lighthearted and fun approach in regard to their relationship, which inevitably spilled over into their parenting. Once his daughters were born in 2019 and 2021, Kenny says he started sending her photoshopped pictures of their daughters every time she was away and asked how they were doing. One photo shows Kenny and Alix about to be beamed up onto an alien spaceship. Another shows a seagull flying off with little Aster.

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I was just listening to the news tonight, in the UK over the weekend they had 57,000 cases of the virus!

And nobody wears masks!

Mad IMO.

And Boris was thought to have the Covid but still wanted to visit with the Queen -- and he said

"oh well the people that are dying are all over 80 anyway"

That bloke is as mad as!

Does anyone watch 'A Farmer Wants a Wife' pleasem;

Does anyone know if it is scripted?   

More and more it appears to be fake.

Saw on the news that a bloke on that show has some things against him with his former girlfriend -- he did not treat her well at all, and appears to be a real beast.

 

I have not watched it myself

Celia - I saw one episode and will never watch another one. It's all made up. I heard that the one with the big red beard didn't choose any one. Same as the Bachelor, all  rubbish and Beauty and the Geese, sorry for the misspelt word, my computer seems to miss some letters, that is another stupid show. 

HOLA I actually watched a few of the Beauty & the Geek and it was a relief to see how the geeks brought out the best in the beauties -- as they had been used to the usual blokes that treated them dreadfully and the geeks turned out to be nice natured men and treated the girls right and with respect

Thought this was so cute!

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Family1

In the first picture of this post, you will see a wild leopard that regularly sneaks in at night to visit his captive mother that breastfed him after his biological mother’s death. The villagers created a family without realizing their actions would have this impact later in life. It shows how a family runs deeper than even species. I will repeat this truth to help show a new perspective: We are one world, one larger humanity. Our actions can expand our story to make this true.

family and love

I see humanity as all living beings that can hold & share stories in their life. I see all living creatures and the world around us as part of an interconnected web of life.

Amazing.

Love it

How can we vaccinate Australia if state premiers can't even stop bickering long enough to coordinate their daily Covid announcements, asks NIC WHITE, who fears constant mixed messages will doom our virus fightHow can Australia do a vaccine rollout if state premiers can't work together?

Australia has little chance of being vaccinated enough to get off the hamster wheel of endless lockdowns any time soon if state premiers don't stop bickering and put their heads together on Covid. With the Delta strain rampaging through Sydney, spreading to Victoria, and now popping up in Adelaide with a new mystery case in Queensland, timely and comprehensive information is as important as ever. State leaders, who are benefiting dramatically from the pandemic in the polls, have opportunities to be constructive leaders who put their differences aside to help their constituents with the biggest global challenge since World War II. Instead they are squandering their chance to make a real difference with petty bickering, poor communication, mixed messages, and what appear to be personal grudges. We don't just deserve better, we need them to do better.

Basically, we just need far more Pfizer vaccines available IMO.

Sure do RnR.

I have yet to hear from the State to see if I can get my shot, still waiting.

My elder son had AstraZenica but had a reaction so he has to have his second shot yet which is to be the Pfizer.    

 

Speech Therapy on Saturday was a hoot!  LOL

Have another space on Friday for some more discussion about my sight to read, but what so many ignorant people do not appreciate it has nothing to do with the way a person speaks or pronounces their words.  What surprised me was the way the person pronounced  'H'  they pronounced it HAYch!  LOL  cringe cringe!!  LOL

As husband and I said, 'how can a person pass their degree speaking English like that?'

My speech has not changed one iota since having the stroke and I hope it continues.

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My speech has not changed one iota since having the stroke and I hope it continues.

Great news Celia.

Celia, I would be interested if you can tell me just how the speech therapy was handled, thanks.

From what you have said it sounds like the pain clinic I went to which was 7 hours I will never get back

Plan B it is early days as yet, but it gave me a laugh.

who in their right mind says Haysh  for the letter H.  That grates terrible.

But she was a nice young woman.

She came to our home and sat at one of our chairs she pulled out a lot of documents and started to ask me what I saw on all the papers.     It was pretty basic. 

This was paid for my private health insurance.

It kept on going for two hours to find out what level I am at!

Apparently some people are a lot lot worse, I suppose I am lucky as my old bran can operate my fingers on the key board.

Also I had to match up words with photos like a photo of a tooth brush with the word and so on.

Then I was given sentences and she was interested at the particular words that I missed.

This apparently indicated which area of the brain that was needing more work!

What I also found is the letters of print are a puzzle.  For instance the s, m, t, f the brain mixes up.

Which is very frustrating, and I am also finding that the keys on the computer are getting muddled when I am over tired.   It is a massive help if I can sleep for awhile in the afternoon as my brain gets exhausted if I don't then all hell goes wonkie.

Hope that helps??

I had some homework to write sentences with words that the brain is confusing.

But I hope to get there if I am alive!

It is amazing just this week I had pains in my eyes a lot and it was very frightening to experience.

My right side of my eye in the brain is messed up in the stroke, they have doubts that will be fixed, but this speech therapist said they have made massive new knowledge over the last decade in understanding the brain. So it is very early days for me as it was only at the end of May that this happened and I was in hospital for 10 days.   I must repeat that having a sleep during the afternoon makes hall the difference.  I am finding I can understand words, meaning reading the words when I have a sleep, another thing is I have to have Thyroid medication and before taking that my brain doesn't work too good reading.   Plus my diet is important like having a cooked breakfast against having just cereal.

I think the cruelest thing is friends that have not bothered to speak with my face to face are not ignoring me.  Like phone calls or visiting.   I think they feel most Stroke victims cannot talk.  I don't stop talking!  LOL

 

 

Also Plan B I have had my eyes tested last week and I feel that they have chanced since they became painful, so I am going to see another guy on Saturday to have them tested again but with different equipment.  We shall see what transpires.

I also think that drinking is a big help h2o not wine!!!

Both husband and I have had serious  back issues and both have had to undergo pain the Pain Specialist all I got was go to a physic and do exercises in a swimming pool, not sure if that helped me but I am better.  I also kept my old exercise bike going.   I found that if I listened to my body I spent different times on the bike.   Some days I would do 4 x 6 minutes others shorter.  Especially the strength of my legs differed as my back did.   Even the exercise of walking up steps, just simple steps a few times I found helped my back.  Importantly I gave up silly shoes.  I have to wear something that lets me be mobile with no pain.  Always soft and bounce heals.

Hi Celia, can you describe how it happened, were you in bed, walking around, in the garden, what did you experience.  I got out of bed one morning last week and couldn't walk straight, my balance was completely gone, I stagged into the bathroom and I thought I was having a stroke.  Luckily it was just my left ear clogged up with wax, over the past few years, I've had the doctor syringe my ears out, it must be an old age thing, never had it before I hit my 70s.

Anyway, glad you are doing well.  Just another thought, if you didn't have medical insurance, would you still receive the follow-up from that nice young woman who came to your home?

Hi Toot, my husband is deep in watching tv so he is not here now to correct any errors I make in typing so it may be a bit wonkie in my replies.

I didn't know I was having a stroke, it may have happened when I was asleep in bed!  But I woke up with a splitting head ache and feeling wonkie and could not walk too well.  I had to wait four days before I was fitted into the GPs rooms, then he said I needed to have a MRI sca, which took a week before I was able to have it.   That was early on a Friday morning, then by 2pm they must have phoned the doctors surgery and I had a doctor phone my husband to give him the news I had a stroke two weeks earlier from memory, that time frame is all a bit fuzzy.  That evening I was taken into Hollywood Hospital.

As for treatment the people that needed to see me were very busy and it took ages for them to come.  Even now I am still waiting for appointments to be made.  But my husband has found a private speech tharapist who came to our house.   It isn't cheap but I had been waiting so long for assesment on how I was reading, as I loose a lot of meaning with some words.  My eyes are blind in one area so it is difficult to see with my reading glasses, although they are only six months old.

Hope that answers your questions?  I must stop now as I am straining my eyes and I need to lay down.

But if you feel you may have had a stroke do not drive and see a doctor asap.

Well, from your description, I think the treatment you received from the medical profession was extremely poor and suspect Covid could be responsible in some way but still no excuse IMO.  Sounds like the headache was significant too, I've heard that before.  You sure have been in the wars you poor thing, try to keep your chin up.

 

I can only imagine how frustrating it can be for you.

I hope they can find out and do something with your eyes,  keep us posted

However, you seem to be doing quite well posting and good on you

Water is always the best to drink.

 

The pain clinic I went to they never even had a comfortable chair for people to sit on or even a footstool -- and the whole thing was a  "mindfulness thing"  in other words mostly meditation -- all very well if you were maybe having depression or such but NOT when there are definite and physical reasons  for one's pain and it was 7 hours totally wasted

 

Today I received the waited email from the WA Health Authorities, with a yes, but they didn't say when!

Then I read this, she is a very brave young woman and god bless her.

 

 

Mother-of-two, 40, who suffered a stroke and was left in a coma after suffering a rare blood clot from the AstraZeneca vaccine reveals why she wants every Australian to get the jab

Mother-of-two who suffered a stroke after AstraZeneca vaccine still wants Australians to

A Melbourne mother-of-two who developed catastrophic side-effects from the AstraZeneca vaccine has said she still believes every Australian should get vaccinated for Covid. Alyssa Kent (above) - a biomedical scientist for the pharmaceutical industry - said she knows better than most that any medication weighs up the benefits versus the risks. But she said she wanted people to know how severe the AstraZeneca side affects can be. She revealed she is not deterred from getting her second jab to be fully vaccinated but will get the Pfizer vaccine.

I can not imagine why she would want to get another -- or suggest anyone get one

I get vaccinated for other things but no way will I be getting this one till they sort it out --

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