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!
Desperation all over the world.
UK coalition forces, Turkish coalition forces, and US Marines assist a child during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Friday
It has been heartbreaking to see the devastating fires affecting Greece, Turkey, and now Italy which has just recorded Europe's highest ever temperature PRINCE CHARLES writes. It has been truly the stuff of nightmares to see the once blue skies above the Peloponnese, Attica and the island of Evia turn a bright orange as mile after mile of the country's famed landscape and over 100,000 hectares of forest and farmland have been swallowed up by ferocious flames, causing the tragic loss of life, injury and the widespread destruction of so many peoples' homes and livelihoods.
HAYLEY MILLS: One day in 1961, I received a cardboard box that contained an exquisite little Oscar. Half as big as the full-sized one, it had been created specially for child movie stars, including Judy Garland and Shirley Temple. And me. Yet there isn't a single photograph of me holding my baby Oscar - even though my father was constantly taking snaps of me and my siblings. In fact, after it arrived at our home, it was never really mentioned again. I don't even recall where my parents put it. I just know that they worried it might all be 'too much'. It's more likely, however, that it was my father John Mills (pictured right, pretending to be a press photographer with Hayley) who found it all too much. After a long and distinguished career as a movie star, he'd yet to win an Oscar himself. So it must have been pretty galling when his 14-year-old daughter got one for Pollyanna - her very first film for Disney (left: Hayley in a portrait issued for Pollyanna).
[Used to enjoy her movies she acted in]
Niklaus Meier, 31, from Lucerne, Switzerland, estimates that he spent 3,000 Swiss Francs (£2,400) on the famous plastic bricks for his recreation of the ship. With no instructions to follow, he took eight weeks replicating every lifeboat, every window and every detail in 1:145 scale, bringing the famous ship back to life. The RMS Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg (depicted left in Lego) while travelling on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in April 1912. At its launch, the luxurious vessel (inset top) was the largest ship in the world. Mr Meier was inspired to take on the project by his seven-year-old nephew, Henri. Apart from the rigging, the final creation is made entirely of Lego or compatible off-brand bricks, and held together by nothing but the studs of the pieces. The finished replica is more than 6feet long and weighs roughly 45lbs. The real Titanic was nearly 883feet in length and weighed around 52,000 tons.
Analysis by an international team led from the National Taiwan University found that the chemicals were found throughout the instruments' wood, not just the surface.
LOL took some time to read this to hubby but I got through it!
I found it interesting but a struggle to read through the heading will go back and read the rest if I can.
Every fireball meteor that has hit Earth's atmosphere in the last 33 years is revealed in new map - including giant 65-foot rock that exploded over Russia in 2013
NASA released a map showing hundreds of fireball meteors that have soared through Earth's atmosphere from 1998 through 2021, with the 2013 space rock over Russia being the largest. The world map shows dots, ranging in four different sizes and colors, that are proportional to the impact (kinetic) energy of each fireball, the total energy the meteoroid brought into the atmosphere due to its velocity. Scientists use the kinetic energy given off by the fireball, sound waves and energy at other wavelengths to determine the size even before it enters Earth's atmosphere.
Sent to me from a friend in the UK, via Melbourne!
A young Arab boy asks his dad
"what are you wearing on your head?"
The father said:
"Why, my son, it is a 'chechia.' In the desert it protects our heads from the intense heat of the sun."
"And what is the long flowing robe you are wearing?"
asked the boy.
"Oh, my son!"
exclaimed the father
"It is very simple.
This is a 'djbellah.' As I have told you, in the desert it is not only very hot, but the sand is always blowing.
My djbellah protects my entire body."
The son then asked:
"But Father, what about those ugly shoes you have on your feet?"
"These are 'babouches' my son,"
the father replied.
You must understand that although the desert sands are very beautiful, they are also extremely hot.
These babouches keep us from burning our feet."
Son asks
"what is that black tent mom and sister are wearing ?"
Father :
" It's called a burkha , it helps the hot desert sand from hitting the face and body during a sandstorm" .
"So tell me then,"
added the boy.
"Yes, my son..."
"Why are we living in Melbourne and still wearing all this shit?"
Young sisters Asna and Sana (top) may not yet understand just how fortunate they are to escape Afghanistan amid fears that up to 1,000 face being left behind. But for their translator father, the RAF evacuation flight to Britain from Kabul was a lifeline, as he admitted the Taliban would have killed him because of his vital support for the Army. The ecstasy of the family - interpreter Nooragha Hashimi, his wife, the twins and their brother - was in stark contrast to the desperate scenes unfolding outside a temporary British processing unit at Kabul's airport, illustrating the lottery faced by those trying to reach the UK
Hugh Jackman was just eight years old when his mother, Grace McNeil, abandoned her family in Australia and returned to the UK. The Hollywood actor, 52, has previously described Grace's sudden departure as 'traumatic', but it appears time heals all wounds. Hugh posted a photo on Instagram on Monday of himself hugging Grace as they both smiled warmly at each other, and simply captioned it: 'Mum.'
Thinking of you Celia ... hang in there.
Chris Hemsworth made headlines this week amid claims he declined to appear in a star-studded advertising campaign promoting the Covid-19 vaccine in Australia. The Byron Bay local, 38, was reportedly trying to secure himself a Pfizer jab in June, but when the government offered him a 'speedy vaccination' in exchange for featuring in the public health campaign, he turned them down. While it's unclear why Hemsworth rejected the offer, a new report sheds some light on the circumstances surrounding the Hollywood star's desire to get vaccinated in the first place.
I thought I may place here a site for senior ladies hair styles, I know one of the first things I wanted to do was go to the hairdressers! I had not been for some weeks and my hair was getting very bitty and needed trimming. I didn't go for a further month! So by then it was that much longer so I have changed my hair style! LOL
But I was just thinking if there are ladies that have recently had a stroke and have come out of hospital and having trouble searching on the net, which is very easy for them to get confused doing that, I thought I would put some sites down for them to look through!
Enjoy!
senior ladies short hairstyles photos - Bing images
ladies hair styles photos - Bing
senior ladies coloured hair photos - Bing images
I like 2 & 11
You forgot to include my fav female haircut Cat
A baby is handed over to the American army over the perimeter wall of the airport to be evacuated in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday in an image taken from a video obtained from social media
[How desperate you must be to hand your child over to a stranger to have a better life wondering if you will ever see it again? it brings tears to my eyes]