They paying for you to be medivac'd back there from Somchailand?
They paying for you to be medivac'd back there from Somchailand?
All of the above means serious shit going down, any life threatening episode which when ya get a few years onya can come anytime.
But you are spot on, get one of the above and ya not jumping a plane back to Aus.
So this is how I have approached that aspect.
I have cash available 24-7 to pay the hospital until I'm well enough to get back to Perth. Claim it back on Insurance later but ya gota have it up front and ready to go.
Next thing is I'm here 5 months and fook off to Perth for around 5 weeks every swing so I buy Travel Insurance to tide me over. It's cheap at 600 Buks.
If Bad shit happens the Travel Insurance will pick up the Tab for my Thailand Treatment and if it's really bad shit I'll be Medi vaced out of this shitter on their decision. All up to the Insurance company at that stage.
If the Insurance company won't pay, ill just pick up the Tab. No probs there.
I'm all about covering my bases, Get sorted to play another day and never being in the diabolical situation of being bunged up in Hospital worrying about who's payin.
That's all really.
Other people wanna spin the bottle, go right ahead.
I'm not Paranoid about this stuff but have experienced first hand other people my age getting totally fuked up by Stroke, Cancer and other nasty stuff.
It aint pretty.
Be ready for the unexpected is my motto.
The traditional thing, I guess...die.what does one do if one is sick and over 75?
I'm with Onecover.com , brilliant company and actually made my first claim this year.
You never want to be in a situation where Medivac is required, that's means ya nearly dead anyway.
Medivac would not be required from Thailand simply because World class medical is available so the Insurance company would pay to get you sorted here and bung ya on a Flight back home in First class if Needed.
Flew my mates and his wife Back to Perth from England this way a few months ago.
Onecover.com Lu-Lu, google em up and have a read.
Medivac is reserved mainly for shit holes where world class medical is not Available.
Bali for example.
My work did not pay my Medical even though i was a Firefighter.
They paid workers compensation as is required in Australia. Used that fuker quite a few times. Not by choice mind you.
My first fund at 16 was HBF then rolled over to Medibank Private and last year I rolled over to BUPA.
I pay 107 buks a month because Ive been self insured from the get go and been employed since 16 and contributing to the medicare Levy.
That's the public system all Australians must pay into when working.
On the other hand if ya never had Private Health and wanted to buy in at an older age ya will pay a fooking top wedge.
If ya gunna die right now Australia's public health system is brilliant, ya go straight in.
But if ya not gunna die it's suck it up bitch and join that wait list, we will see ya in 12 months if ya lucky.
Fuk that, i want shit fixed Yesterday, that's how it works with me.
I have played it that way simply because i worked my whole life and paid my shit.
Last edited by terry57; 22-08-2017 at 02:26 PM.
Yep and ya could die a fuking horrid death in this shit house if ya can't pay.
The option of going public in Thailand is best left for horror movie fodder.
Thailand is simply another Asian 3rd world shit hole.
But if ya got cash ya fly way above the peasants and buy ya way to nirvana.
Thailand, like most of S.E.Asia, would be much better if the natives of the region could not afford to travel and the lower classes from the West were also confined to their local holiday slums.
I have no Thai friends because most decent Thai do not seek farang society, or confide truthfully in anyone other than family and a very tight circle of Thai friends made since school or some other institution, and therefore true friendship is impossible. Engaging with expats is usually futile since most are people one would avoid back in their own countries or are of an age to realise new friendships are redundant.
Thailand is home because it is where one hangs one hat and for no other reason. I certainly would not be here if I were not retired.
I however dislike the British more and more, and the Irish are simply gormless.
I miss the past, terribly.
That's just not true.most decent Thai do not seek farang society, or confide truthfully in anyone other than family and a very tight circle of Thai friends made since school or some other institution, and therefore true friendship is impossible.
That is, though.Engaging with expats is usually futile since most are people one would avoid back in their own countries
Terry, you seem fixated on the method of your exeunt. It's irrelevant, you are on the last lap and frankly what is left to you all now is all bonus. Worrying about what cancer or stroke is going to cripple you is daft, and fretting over what insurance policy you need is even dafter - you are going to die within a decade or so no matter whether you are with Axa or fucking BUPA, or the fucking hospice for fucked Ockers.
It's like a race car stopping on the pre-penultimate lap of the race and filling the petrol tank up to the brim - what's the point?
Enjoy what you got and quit fretting.
Or you could fly back to Perth and die of cancer there. Is that really preferable? If you're 75 and your number comes up, all you need is a sufficient supply of morphine, and that's probably a lot easier to come by in Thailand.Yep and ya could die a fuking horrid death in this shit house if ya can't pay.
I have no intention of returning to Perth full time simply because it's boring as fuk compared to this shit bag and ya feel like ya dead anyway.
So no, it's definitely not preferable.
And yes, morphine is the go, I'll start collecting.
Teak Doors good innit, we work out all the big issues.
I have generally good memories of Nong Khai. Years ago, when my ex #2 was particularly mad, with the family's agreement, I 'imprisoned her' in a shophouse in NK, right next to the Mekong, to try to restrict the damage that she was doing to our Phuket hotel business.I like Nonkai too, Simon.
Every morning, I woke up to the sounds of the chickens and children in the Lao village opposite, as these sounds drifted across the water. Very peaceful.
Every morning, mad ex went out for a walk. Every afternoon, (like clockwork), I would drive out to look for her, sometimes finding her miles outside of NK, running along the road. (She was absolutely nutters at that time).
NK was enjoyable for me. It all came to an end when I was confronted by my ex and her Thai friend with documents apparently signed by me (pretty good fake signature) that showed that I had just bought a condo and needed to pay the remaining 1 million baht balance to them.
After that, I decided that the person running away from NK should be me, not my loony wife
Groping women when you're old is fine - everyone thinks you're senile
Well, I can only go on my own experiences and those close to me - we have agreeable, intelligent and knowledgeable Thai acquaintances but its clear they do not want to go beyond a certain point and there are several subjects which can never be broached. Also, their sense of humour is quite incongruent to mine and one has to tread carefully. I can't be arsed and it's just too precious for me. Thai women who have contracted farang relationships, extant or otherwise, are a different kettle of pla but even then things can be tricky.
Chinese, Turks, Mauritians, Iranians even the bloody French are no problem but Thai men are mostly a no-no.
Why it's home:
- wife & daughter are Thai
- easy going people
- the food
- the eyecandy
- Buddha
- the climate
- lack of regulations
I think that if one could speak Thai fluently and i mean fluently as in understanding what the context of the sentences actually mean in the Thais mind one could possibly make proper Thai friends.
But if one cannot converse on this level ya kidding yaself that you have actually got a proper Thai friend.
Unfortunately or fortunately the Thai live on a completely different planet compared to us white shitters.
Way it is.
Thegents on the money.
Exactly why I have Medivac in Myanmar.Medivac is reserved mainly for shit holes where world class medical is not Available.
But if I get hit by a truck as I ride my motorbike in the middle of the mountains, then I'm fcuked, Medivac or not. It would take maybe half a day just to get you to the nearest shit clinic.
what if the problem wasn't constipation?...Originally Posted by Simon43
Yes, that's obviously true for all of us and in my experience, class differences play into this as much as national ones; spending time with a working class Thai is a very different thing to spending time with an upper-middle class Thai, just as is the case with your fellow(-ish) Ingerlanders.Well, I can only go on my own experiences and those close to me
Last edited by Passing Through; 22-08-2017 at 04:41 PM.
You radiate idiocy like a thermonuclear fucking explosion Terry so it wouldn't be the most surprising thing in the world if you found your social world a little obscured by the fallout.But if one cannot converse on this level ya kidding yaself that you have actually got a proper Thai friend. Unfortunately or fortunately the Thai live on a completely different planet compared to us white shitters.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)