General Medical issues thread

[Quickstatus]

Many of our neighbours are getting lifts installed in their homes

Luckily my house is all single storey.
Eventually have to make the bathroom an "accessible one"

 

[Solid]

Many of our neighbours are getting lifts installed in their homes as they get older and less mobile. We had a group visit us and most of them have placed lift orders now for their two and three level homes. It means that they can live longer at their homes.

I know someone who fell down the partially built lift well in their home in the middle of the night. Almost killed them.

 

[straitman]

Recently found out that a friend from RAAF Pilots Course dies recently. Cause was Lung Cancer even though he was never a smoker.

 

[Quickstatus]

Cause was Lung Cancer even though he was never a smoker.

Passive smoking?
Maybe 20% of lung cancers ococur in non smokers
There are also certain types of lung cancer which seem to occur mainly in non smokers.

 

[Pushka]

Passive smoking?
Maybe 20% of lung cancers ococur in non smokers
There are also certain types of lung cancer which seem to occur mainly in non smokers.

Friend died in her thirties from small cell lung cancer. Never smoked. But passive smoking abounded in those days. Even the state cricketers were handed out cartons of cigarettes from Benson and Hedges every time they played. Major sponsors back then. She was a cricketers wife.

 

[VPS]

I don't want to take anything away from his diagnosis but honestly the beat up over a BCC. Just headline grabbing from the media

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[Julesmac]

Friend died in her thirties from small cell lung cancer. Never smoked. But passive smoking abounded in those days. Even the state cricketers were handed out cartons of cigarettes from Benson and Hedges every time they played. Major sponsors back then. She was a cricketers wife.

I recall our family doctor, when I was a child, always had a fa_ going and an ashtray brimming with stubs.When I first started work, travelled an hour in the train to Melbourne when they had smoking & non smoking carriages. I remember vividly he enormous cloud of smoke that came out the door, in a full carriage of smokers. Can you imagine how people would have stunk of smoke?

 

[Pushka]

I recall our family doctor, when I was a child, always had a fa_ going and an ashtray brimming with stubs.When I first started work, travelled an hour in the train to Melbourne when they had smoking & non smoking carriages. I remember vividly he enormous cloud of smoke that came out the door, in a full carriage of smokers. Can you imagine how people would have stunk of smoke?

I never smoked but would come home from being out to dinner and my hair stank of smoke. Clothes, everything.

Funnily enough we are renting in a townhouse and there's a gap of about a metre between our front verandah where we eat dinner, and the neighbours who are also renting. Started to eat then smelled smoke. There was neighbour basically leaning over his balcony into that space with smoke directly to me. I got up, smiled and said to please move away from where we are eating. I know that no one wants renters smoking but think they have to allow it on balconies? Anyways I trust he won't do that again so close but have no issues telling him and if he continues then I'll report it. He can smoke on his area but not near us. But our side has the sea view. Actually I think as tenants we have more rights than owners!

 

[Aeryn]

I know that no one wants renters smoking but think they have to allow it on balconies?

I don't know about SA but in NSW balconies are still considered common property. Our Strata has a by-law which says no smoking on common property, you can be fined for smoking on the balconies.

Often when leaving the complex I see smoking renters just outside the gate on the street having their pathetic puff.

 

[Pushka]

I don't know about SA but in NSW balconies are still considered common property. Our Strata has a by-law which says no smoking on common property, you can be fined for smoking on the balconies.

Often when leaving the complex I see smoking renters just outside the gate on the street having their pathetic puff.

That's true here in SA too. Never thought of it like that (for our property that we rent out). Thats rather interesting.

Where we are now, there is only the one owner. Apparently he has something like 60 properties all around Adelaide. He owns the company that manages the rentals. There is a dedicated maintenance and repair company just for his properties.

 

[Cossie]

I don't want to take anything away from his diagnosis but honestly the beat up over a BCC. Just headline grabbing from the media

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I might be able to give him some advice!

Got my results today from pathology, all good, clear margins, so I'm happy.

It was meant to be taken in jest, ho hum, as I had that exact same thing removed from my left lower eyelid last Thursday.

As an aside, one of former school mates played guitar in various 'Crawl bands back in the day.

 

[TheRealTMA]

I might be able to give him some advice!

Got my results today from pathology, all good, clear margins, so I'm happy/

Many of us can. As per @VPS , media seem to catastrophically overreact to a very common BCC that in 99% of cases can be treated easily and simply with no ongoing issues.

 

[Major]

I might be able to give him some advice!

Got my results today from pathology, all good, clear margins, so I'm happy/

When you get to a couple of hundred excisions, let me know

 

[Cossie]

When you get to a couple of hundred incisions, let me know

Had quite a few already, 4 on my face alone, first one was back in the early nineties, the graft was taken from the back of my neck, I have a photo I have been trying to find.
That isn't including all the ones that have been zapped from various parts of my body.
I blame my mother, she was a redhead.
Interestingly enough, one doctor I know is excising using mohs and not using the creams, as he isn't sure about the long term effects of the creams.
But as usual, ymmv.

 

[VPS]

When you have a malignant cancer removed in your 20s and have 249 stitches in your leg then you get a bit blasé about sensationalist media Plus an impressive scar from the skin graft that’s still visible 40 years later

 

[Pushka]

When you have a malignant cancer removed in your 20s and have 249 stitches in your leg then you get a bit blasé about sensationalist media Plus an impressive scar from the skin graft that’s still visible 40 years later

And that was soooo many years ago too before they even had anaesthesia <exiting right now>

 

[VPS]

And that was soooo many years ago too before they even had anaesthesia <exiting right now>

You’ll keep