General Medical issues thread

[TAK]

Wife broke her ankle in Tromso we depart tomorrow back to Aus , looking for advice on EU compensation claims or tips to get back to $2000 in hotels and meals. The problem will be the original flight was canceled due to weather but that was 29th and we went rebooked until 1 Feb , if there's a mor appropriate forum pls advise thx

 

[Hvr]

Do you have travel insurance?
If so ask them for guidance.

 

[Flashback]

Wife broke her ankle in Tromso we depart tomorrow back to Aus , looking for advice on EU compensation claims or tips to get back to $2000 in hotels and meals. The problem will be the original flight was canceled due to weather but that was 29th and we went rebooked until 1 Feb , if there's a mor appropriate forum pls advise thx

Delays due to weather won't attract compensation. But as always, the devil is in the detail and there's some cases where it might if the airline could have reasonably avoided it. Those are edge cases, though.

 

[TAK]

Thanks for the replies, its a bit of a rabbit warren, the old EU charter ( which is why I bagged an aus one in the survey) Little chance of compensation due to weather - it was bad! But its the cover of the accommodation and meals and transport that I need to go the airlines for; because my insurer will want proof that the airline has not coughed anything up. I just paid the 4 nights at the hotel ( nothing flash) 18500NOK , the flight in J and F cost 104500NOK ( 2 pax) INSANE!
Its already started, it was Swissair booking and as the first flight was with subsidiary Edewiess, theyve advised me they has referred the claim to them ......let the games begin
Anyway. Most of this is mainly putting it out there as people encounter this every day and in the end ( hopefully) my insurer will cover it. Its the dealing with pathetic apps and chatbots and totally dysfunctional systems. Lufthansa is the parents to all the cough children. So wish me luck while I persue what was TOS - ZHR on EW then ZHR -HKG on LK the HKG - MEL on CX now 4 days later TOS - OSL on SAS OSL- DXB on EK DXB - MEL on EK
The plus EK, the minus Mrs TAK in bed with full leg cast for 4 days ..…..

 

[Flashback]

Thanks for the replies, its a bit of a rabbit warren, the old EU charter ( which is why I bagged an aus one in the survey) Little chance of compensation due to weather - it was bad! But its the cover of the accommodation and meals and transport that I need to go the airlines for; because my insurer will want proof that the airline has not coughed anything up. I just paid the 4 nights at the hotel ( nothing flash) 18500NOK , the flight in J and F cost 104500NOK ( 2 pax) INSANE!
Its already started, it was Swissair booking and as the first flight was with subsidiary Edewiess, theyve advised me they has referred the claim to them ......let the games begin
Anyway. Most of this is mainly putting it out there as people encounter this every day and in the end ( hopefully) my insurer will cover it. Its the dealing with pathetic apps and chatbots and totally dysfunctional systems. Lufthansa is the parents to all the cough children. So wish me luck while I persue what was TOS - ZHR on EW then ZHR -HKG on LK the HKG - MEL on CX now 4 days later TOS - OSL on SAS OSL- DXB on EK DXB - MEL on EK
The plus EK, the minus Mrs TAK in bed with full leg cast for 4 days ..…..

LH? Yes, good luck indeed then!

 

[prozac]

LH? Yes, good luck indeed then!

LH. Horrible people to try to talk to.

 

[Cossie]

So, her indoors has had both knees replaced over three years ago, six months ago she needed the medial ligament replaced in her right knee as she has had pain and instability.
Starts to get pain again, goes back to surgeon, he said that ligament which is synthetic and the strongest available has failed!
No idea how that has happened as nothing physical has occurred to cause the failure.
So what’s next?
Another new knee, but it will be a hinge and therefore no rotation or sideways movement of the knee will be possible.
Anyone here ever heard of issues like that before? Needless to say, she is beside herself.

 

[mrsterryn]

Oh @Cossie the OH definitely has my thoughts. After six months last year of husband being rather ill with vomiting etc ending with surgery and the expectation that he wouldn't need to be reviewed for that condition for three years , he threw up again last night. Promptly have gone into panic mode and now waiting to see if the vomiting continues and increases

 

[love_the_life]

So, her indoors has had both knees replaced over three years ago, six months ago she needed the medial ligament replaced in her right knee as she has had pain and instability.
Starts to get pain again, goes back to surgeon, he said that ligament which is synthetic and the strongest available has failed!
No idea how that has happened as nothing physical has occurred to cause the failure.
So what’s next?
Another new knee, but it will be a hinge and therefore no rotation or sideways movement of the knee will be possible.
Anyone here ever heard of issues like that before? Needless to say, she is beside herself.

On no, she has had a shocker with her knees - and the 'cure' doesn't sound good at all. Give her my commiserations, a large gin and Maxi to cuddle up with.

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Oh @Cossie the OH definitely has my thoughts. After six months last year of husband being rather ill with vomiting etc ending with surgery and the expectation that he wouldn't need to be reviewed for that condition for three years , he threw up again last night. Promptly have gone into panic mode and now waiting to see if the vomiting continues and increases

So sorry to hear this - hopefully not related? Fingers crossed.

 

[mrsterryn]

Thanks @love_the_life crossing all fingers and toes.
At least the specialist is decent and not too hard to get an appointment if husband continues to be unwell again

 

[Himeno]

Each of the community nurses who made home visits last month said that they don't change SPCs. I had a appointment with the urology nurse at the hospital yesterday who changed it and said that she only had to do the first change, and that the community nurses could do following changes every 6 weeks.

The nurse who came on the 19th chased up the urology appointment, then booked 3 weeks worth of home visits.
Had a visit booked for the 25th, which got moved forward a day. The nurse who came then just made sure I was able to change the leg bag myself, then cancelled the appointment for last week and changed this weeks to a phone consult. These appointments also kept getting bumped around to different offices.
Both of those nurses said that I didn't need a dressing on the wound, but it hurts if there isn't one.

The booked phone consult this morning disappeared off the list, appearing like it had been cancelled, then they called a short time ago when they saw in my records that they'd been booked to change the SPC in 6 weeks and made an appointment to do that (at their clinic. Haven't been there before, but it's next door to the local walk in center)
It seems they aren't going to visit anymore unless I call them with a problem.

Still waiting to hear anything about this surgery at Nepean. Apparently all the registrars in Canberra and southern NSW rotated into different positions last week, which slowed down sorting out the referral.

I'm able to go back to work, once I get an updated certificate to override the one I got when this happened (when they put 5/12/24 as the end date instead of 5/1/24), but a lot of the job requires movements that are likely to impact the SPC site and result in increased discomfit in that area.

The urology nurse yesterday said that if I woke up one morning to find the tube had fallen out, that I could just shove it back in myself.

 

[JohnK]

If I am not mistaken the average daily intake of an adult male is ~2200 calories.

If I am not mistaken the average daily intake of an adult weighing 140kgs on a sedentary lifestyle is ~3800 calories to maintain that weight. If any exercise then the calories increase.

So, I'm struggling to consume 2500 calories per day let alone 3000 calories. If you consume 500 calories less per day then you should lose ~450g per week.

So what gives? I'm really confused. I have lost ~3kgs in 3 months. New target of losing ~10kgs in 19 weeks just as we head off to Thailand.

 

[andye]

If I am not mistaken the average daily intake of an adult male is ~2200 calories.

If I am not mistaken the average daily intake of an adult weighing 140kgs on a sedentary lifestyle is ~3800 calories to maintain that weight. If any exercise then the calories increase.

So, I'm struggling to consume 2500 calories per day let alone 3000 calories. If you consume 500 calories less per day then you should lose ~450g per week.

So what gives? I'm really confused. I have lost ~3kgs in 3 months. New target of losing ~10kgs in 19 weeks just as we head off to Thailand.

Whatever the books say I have always felt that you should judge your calorie requirement on your lean weight (i.e less than when you were young, muscular and fit). Adipose tissue is not very metabolically active.
I struggle with my weight too so feel your pain. Unfortunately, the best way to be slim is never to put on weight as the brain does everything it can to get you back to your highest weight as a new set-point. The injectable medications work in part by tricking the brain into ignoring that set-point

 

[Pushka]

I’m on Covid watch. Took care of 20 month old grandchild for two days when she was positive. I’m all vaxxed up and survived European winter and not a whiff. I went into it knowingly. So far so good but another family member tested positive yesterday. If I don’t get it I can say that goozy hugs doesn’t spread it.

 

[SuePa]

I’m on Covid watch. Took care of 20 month old grandchild for two days when she was positive. I’m all vaxxed up and survived European winter and not a whiff. I went into it knowingly. So far so good but another family member tested positive yesterday. If I don’t get it I can say that goozy hugs doesn’t spread it.

I had it leading up to Christmas. Infected Friday night, first symptoms Sunday afternoon, but no +tve RATS until Tuesday. It was unpleasant, but not as bad as the first time. Good luck!

 

[Pushka]

I had it leading up to Christmas. Infected Friday night, first symptoms Sunday afternoon, but no +tve RATS until Tuesday. It was unpleasant, but not as bad as the first time. Good luck!

I had no symptoms first time round which was 18 months ago. Weird. But then so is my immune system. It only attacks me! . Interesting about the RAT delay.

 

[SuePa]

I had no symptoms first time round which was 18 months ago. Weird. But then so is my immune system. It only attacks me! . Interesting about the RAT delay.

Last time I had Covid, I tried for 3 days but the RAT never showed a result. I had to drag myself into town to have a PCR to prove I had it and get my time off work (during lockdown).

 

[Bundy Bear]

Today went and got a colonoscopy 2nd one in 2 years. Likely won’t have to go back for 10 years as long as pathology's results from a polyp is ok.
Managed to lose 2kgs, now to try and keep it off, those extra 2kgs aren’t any help with running marathons.

 

[Quickstatus]

Wife broke her ankle in Tromso we depart tomorrow back to Aus

Sorry to hear.
Does Mrs T have a boot or a plaster cast?
Does she have anticoagulants - aspirin?

six months ago she needed the medial ligament replaced in her right knee as she has had pain and instability.

Ok so the Medial ligament is called the medial collateral ligament (MCL) - there is a medial and a lateral. It is not "replaced" but repaired using special sutures which anchor into the bone. If causing pain then they sometimes do a hinged TKR (total knee replacement). A standard TKR (is held in place by the MCL, LCL and the patella tendon in front) and is in 2 pieces which is not physically attached to one another . But laxity of one of these can cause instability of the knee joint. They can fix that with a hinged joint. The hinge attached the top part to the lower part. So the only movement is bending and extending the knee - that is the lower leg moves front to back relative to the upper leg - this is the usual movement of the knee. . Rotation of lower leg relative to upper leg and movement of lower leg inside and outside relative to upper leg is a very minor movement.

A hinged joint makes the knee very stable and would most likely remove the pain because it only allows the lower leg to move front to back. Inside to outside and rotation is not possible. It can feel different because of that.

Covid, I tried for 3 days but the RAT never showed a result

RATS have a certain degree of false negative. Can be up to 30%.

 

[JohnK]

Daughter had a cold, running nose and some sneezing.

Thursday wife is sick. Fever, body burning and sore, chills and shaking on and off, some cough amd sore throat. Friday she felt better and weekend much better.

Monday, Tuesday and today at work. Around lunchtime she is not feeling well but some panadol and she finishes work and comes home but goes to lie down. Fever again, body burning with chills and shaking again. Also complaining of pain on the right side around kidney.

Doctor or hospital? Went to medical centre and waited over 2 hours. See a female doctor we have seen before and she immediately suspects covid. Why? These are 2 episodes almost a week apart and covid makes no sense. What about the 5 days in between? Strange diagnosis and I'm obviously not a doctor.

Anyway takes a mouth and nose swab plus urine sample. Prescribes Cefalexin for possible UTI.

One thing I'm extremely unhappy about. One of the motel rooms they cleaned last week was occupied by someone who had covid. I'm not sure if management knew about it before asking the housekeepers to service the room or they found out later. Silly wife did not have mask with her for a few days.

Management in this place are awful. Husband and wife both run the motel and both had covid towards end of last year and both continued to work and have close contact with staff and not wearing any masks. Awful people. Have some consideration and respect for those around you. Especially your staff.