An update on my recovery: Prayers/Smoke needed!

Drdan said:
Many times, Hibuke, more than one surgical intervention is needed, especially if the damage is intensive, and the bones are fractured in multiple places. Once you have the MRI in hand, do get several opinions for the next steps regarding your complete recovery. Give your absolute best in P.T., and best wishes! :)
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Hey all,

Yeah, I have been going all out in my physio, but can do little more. Physio (at least at this point in time) is not very extensive (more on that below) and they really can't do much other than strengthen the uninjured limbs, which is not all that useful at this point...

Since the last time around 3 weeks ago, those lazy doctors at RMH (Royal Melbourne Hospital) *FINALLY* decided they'd operate on my right ankle. It turned out that about 1/3 of my Talus, a bone right in the middle of my ankle (check a good anatomy textbook, it's in there...) broke off and went walkabout in my ankle: how/why the people didn't see it the 1st time is beyond me, God knows...

So here I am, back in a badly made, pathetic excuse for a plaster cast that's as heavy as a brick. I have around 3 more weeks to go till my next review when they'll decide whether or not I can get back to some sense of normality by finally being able to walk on my own 2 feet...

Now as for my wrist, they *STILL* haven't said *ANYTHING* about that, not even when they want to look at it again...

Further prayers/smoke/support needed, I guess, I'm a little more encouraged by the fact that I *SHOULD* be walking after that.
 
Sure glad to hear you're getting some kind of care and getting better Hibuke.

I'm assuming that the medical field in OZ is the same kind of socialized medicine that is in the United Kingdom and Canada from the way you're speaking of it? :footinmou
If the people that are for socialized medicine here in the states could read some of the horror stories of socialized medicine they might not be so quick to embrace it.:rolleyes:

I'm not too fond of Drs myself, but have finally found a couple, three, good ones that have done me well the last little while.:)
 
Get well.

Don't mean to sound optimistic, but the orthroscopic surgeries performed these days, and the bone work in general is astonishing. Sports medicine and technology are major contributors.

Keep complaining. It will be all right. As for them missing stuff initially, it is easy to do; the good news is that they saw it eventually.

Hang in, friend. It will get better.

Don't push your rehab work. Bones need time to knit.
 
Yvsa said:
...If the people that are for socialized medicine here in the states could read some of the horror stories of socialized medicine they might not be so quick to embrace it...
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Socialized medicine just means that the government foots some or all of the cost, and it's no more "horrible" than any other kind of medicine. Millions of people in the US enjoy the benefits of "socialized medicine". If you go to a VA hospital, a public clinic, receive assistance such as AFDC, are on SSI, are retired and get Medicare, or work for the government and have medical benefits, you are receiving the benefits of "socialized medicine" paid for at the taxpayer's expense.

My medical treatment is from Kaiser-Permanante, which is a private HMO. But it is paid for from my wife's job benefits. She is a teacher, paid by "the government", so the taxpayers foot the bill. You can't get anymore
"socialized" that that, and there is nothing "horrible" about it.
 
Tell that to all the Canadians who come to the US for surgery because the waiting list is too long and they may die waiting.

NO, this is not rumor or anecdotal- it happens.


munk
 
munk said:
Tell that to all the Canadians who come to the US for surgery because the waiting list is too long and they may die waiting.
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Anything can be mismanaged, inneficient, and corrupt, regardless of how it is financed. Just because a system is paid for with tax revenues doesn't automatically mean it can't do a good job.
 
It just hasn't done a very good job in any place it's ever been tested. Perhaps one of the oil rich nations like Kuwait does a good job with it.
When Canadians need help they come here. If it's not vital, they stay in Canada.

munk
 
munk said:
...It just hasn't done a very good job in any place it's ever been tested...
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Munk, I am impressed by your vast knowledge of the failure of government supported medical systems "in any place". Does that includes the Swedish system which is considered one of the best in the world?
Why is it that opponents only see systems with problems like Canada or Portugal? They seem to have no faith that Americans could do it any better. My position comes from an optimistic view of Americans and the possibilities of our American system, not a view rooted in pessimistic defeatism with no faith in our government.
 
Ben Arown-Awile said:
Does that includes the Swedish system which is considered one of the best in the world?

Why is it that opponents only see systems with problems like Canada or Portugal?

They seem to have no faith that Americans could do it any better.

My position comes from an optimistic view of Americans and the possibilities of our American system, not a view rooted in pessimistic defeatism with no faith in our government.
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Ben you have faith in our government?

I have a friend in Sweden with MS and I'm sure she would argue about the Swedish Health System being among the best in the world.

I don't know much about Canada's system and nothing about Portugal's. I was basing what I said on the British Health Welfare System, among the worst in the world according to all I've read.
The last I heard they were having a hard time keeping the Drs they have let alone luring new ones in.
IMO anytime free enterprize is monkeyed with things go to hell in a hand basket very quickly.
Looking at the Veterans Administration why should I have any faith in our government running a full socialized medical facility any different?

Me have faith in our government?:rolleyes:
 
Yvsa said:
...IMO anytime free enterprize is monkeyed with things go to hell in a hand basket very quickly...
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You sure got that right. That's exactly what has happened to this country. Free Enterprise has been usurped by Corporate Capitalism. Many people equate Capitalism with Free Enterprise, but it's exactly the opposite. Capitalism suppresses Free Enterprise.
 
Yvsa said:
...why should I have any faith in our government...
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You shouldn't have. As long as the citizens continue to be brainwashed sleepwalkers who delegate their rights and responsibilities to idiots and criminals, as they have for the past 50 years, we will contiinue to have just the kind of government we deserve.

It's not the government's fault, it's our fault for letting it be this way.
 
Ben- Capitalism, as you call it, does suppress threats to business, but under the capitalist model when enough pressure builds the suppression fails. It is supposed to fail quicker with less restraints upon it. I'd rather not debate this, as I am not a pure capitalist, but thought I should point out that though suppression occurs, it is not a blanket absolute assertion.


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