NHS v US Healthcare

[JimOttley]

whats the chances when your young needing any major hospital treatment ?

me - dislocated elbow when i was 11, an op at 12 - thats it, apart from a few stitches from cuts or falls.

My son has been in hospital twice now, first tiem last Christmas the day I arrived after he manged somehow to get his hands on the superglue in my toolkit and at age three tried to eat it

Second time was two weeks ago when he had mild pneumonia :( cost us 350 quid at christmas and 200 quid the other week both were unexpected expenses that I could have done without but what can you do when you have kids?

You should also remember that every vacinne every consulation costs money in these countries, in the phils the standard vacinnes for kids can sometimes be 8000 peso :( there are a couple like that and there are plnty more that come in at 2000 to 3000 peso that they need in the first 36 months.

We don't know how lucky we are here!


Jim

[joebloggs]

My son has been in hospital twice now, first tiem last Christmas the day I arrived after he manged somehow to get his hands on the superglue in my toolkit and at age three tried to eat it

Second time was two weeks ago when he had mild pneumonia :( cost us 350 quid at christmas and 200 quid the other week both were unexpected expenses that I could have done without but what can you do when you have kids?

You should also remember that every vacinne every consulation costs money in these countries, in the phils the standard vacinnes for kids can sometimes be 8000 peso :( there are a couple like that and there are plnty more that come in at 2000 to 3000 peso that they need in the first 36 months.

We don't know how lucky we are here!

Jim

superglue

tell me about it, this year, me and the misses have had to pay £1,500 in medical bills for her family in the phils.

[JimOttley]

superglue

tell me about it, this year, me and the misses have had to pay £1,500 in medical bills for her family in the phils.

I can laugh about it now, but it was hell on the flight over, Ana and I had already fallen out the day before I got on the plane and we weren't on speaking terms I had just got to Schipol and was sitting down having a pint at the pub just above the bit where they sell all the electronics and cameras when I get a txt "CALL ME NOW EMERGENCY" (caps intended as that's how she sent it ) great way to start a nice a relaxing flight

It was all over his teeth but they kept him in for 3 days at Makati Med for observation, the local hospital sent us there as they didn't know how to handle it.


Jim

[GaryFifer]

I can laugh about it now, but it was hell on the flight over, Ana and I had already fallen out the day before I got on the plane and we weren't on speaking terms I had just got to Schipol and was sitting down having a pint at the pub just above the bit where they sell all the electronics and cameras when I get a txt "CALL ME NOW EMERGENCY" (caps intended as that's how she sent it ) great way to start a nice a relaxing flight

It was all over his teeth but they kept him in for 3 days at Makati Med for observation, the local hospital sent us there as they didn't know how to handle it.


Jim

Ah Jim, pity you not knew me then, I could give you a pointer there! So did you keep the superglue package? Then they need to get acetone to remove it. Your wifes Nail polish remover would usually contain acetone. Heres something to remember for our kids!

http://www.supergluecorp.com/removingsuperglue.html

[JimOttley]

Ah Jim, pity you not knew me then, I could give you a pointer there! So did you keep the superglue package? Then they need to get acetone to remove it. Your wifes Nail polish remover would usually contain acetone. Heres something to remember for our kids!

http://www.supergluecorp.com/removingsuperglue.html

Thanks for that link Gary Janna is only 15 months so it could happen again you never know

Long time ago I would probably have known how to handle it, my dad was a Chemist and was good at self medication and fixes like that ad he taught me a lot of stuff like this but it's tricky when you have a panicking partner at the other end of a long flight, I just couldn't take the risk so he was in hospital by the time I got there and there was always the chance that he could have ingested some of it which is why the kept him in, I think the hospital milked us a bit though because he looked fine when I arrived.


Jim