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?