Just got home after 2nd six-monthly checkup post cancer. I am happy to say that I am still cancer-free. Peter Mac Hospital in its infinite wisdom has removed all the free books for reading while waiting to see the doctor. This is a major step back. I found a couple of beauties last year while I was in treatment. Things I would never in a million years have actually spent money on, but were splendid reads. On the plus side, the new station at Parkville is just outside the door and is looking splendid and hopefully will be available for use soon. The new tram stop in Royal Parade is excellent and nearly big enough. Also the coffee in the Wellness Centre is still good but the selection of bikkies has reduced somewhat.
Good news. So many hugs.
Thanks. It’s been a weird and somewhat wonderful ride.
That’s awesome news! Good to hear!
That’s wonderful news.
I really hate cancer, it’s such a scurge and can affect anyone at any stage without descrimination.
I hope one day we can find a cure and beat it.
Thanks. Mine was apparently related to the HPV virus - and the current programme of vaccinating every female of reproductive age against that virus means that cervical cancer at least may well become a thing of the past in just a few years. Huge advances being made all the time.
Yay! Fuck cancer!
Great news! ❤️
Thanks.
Congrats! Someone in my life had to go through these, and I swear my heart stopped for a day every time they went in till I got the “all clear” phone call. Treat yourself and your loved ones to something special tonight.
Will do. Thanks for your good wishes! Happily, some cancers CAN be cured nowadays - it’s no longer an automatic death sentence. I got lucky with one that could be fixed fairly easily.
Very good news!
Hoo boy YASSS!
That is so good to hear. I hope it never comes back
Me too. No one should have to go through the whole cancer ‘journey’. It’s horrible. But for me at least I think it’s over. The doc said that after 3 years I can pretty much forget I ever had it, which is nice. 2 years to go.
Yay to you 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks.
Amazing news ❤️
Fuck cancer! There can’t be too much more above ground work since the historic fence is back in and most roads line marked. Bit annoying to lose a tram stop, but getting the bus back on route will be grand.
Congrats!! 🤗
Fantastic news!
Had a moderately busy day , did not have any pain killer and didn’t think of my bad back once. iow, it’s better. 😊
That is brilliant!
Thank you, it sure is, now I just have to make sure it never happens again 🤞
With the recent community hyper-fixation on bees, I’d like to draw our attention to another issue: the lack of easy to attain quality soy sauce.
I went to KT Mart today, I was looking for two things: a sweet refreshing beverage that I didn’t know what it was until I drank it, and some decent soy sauce.
I got my beverage (Milkis), and I went looking for soy sauce. I found a small range of low-quality “cooking” soy sauce, which taste terrible, but for the life of me I couldn’t find any decent table soy sauce. There was all other kinds of sauces, terriyaki… kelp broth… dumpling dipping sauce… low sodium soy sauce… BUT WHERE WAS THE ACTUAL SOY SAUCE?!
My last purchase of soy sauce of questionable provenance was a low sodium variety from ALDI. I couldnt use it, it was disgusting, and it’s in the bin now.
I’m at a loss. Is this related to climate change?
Any shop that doesn’t have an English name
but I only speak english
Are you aware it’s actually possible to end oneself with soy sauce? Not that I’m suggesting you do such, especially not with the unpleasant stuff.
It’s also quite alcoholic! But you’d die from the salt long before you got drunk lol
I thought the % was marginal in Soy, but like Chinese Cooking Wine, yes, the salt would do you first
I use the Coles soy to mix with my Asian inspired sauce concoctions and use Kikkimon to drink neat.
What’s the problem with Kikkoman? I was under the impression that that was pretty OK for most purposes? Or am I a soy sauce bogan for liking it?
It’s totally fine as a basic. But there is Sweet, Mushroom, Dark, Tamari, and a zillion others I forget right now. Bread isn’t just bread. Rice isn’t just rice.
True.
minh phat in Richmond has a very large range
Richmond is like 3km too far for me
just take a tram
Bruh
Don’t forget to hold on.
Ride the Rhino! 🛹
Ding ding!
this is the one i use
https://www.coles.com.au/product/amoy-light-soy-sauce-500ml-3739048available at coles and i think woolies too, where the east asian things are
make sure to get the light one not the dark one
does everyone not just use pearl river bridge light soy as their generic soy.?
Ah well my insurance won’t cover a nurse on call so I have to look at other options to get my dressing changed. Are there any cheap GPs or other services that could help me with this?! (Somewhere preferably closer to the city / inner SE)
Update: omg the beautiful hospital worker got back to me saying that I can’t go without the dressing so the hospital will cover the costs for the first 3 visits 😭 that’s so nice of her to do that for me!!
That’s awesome. Healthcare workers are real heroes and deserve so much more.
Is that enough to cover your needs or would you still need help?
They really are. I remember when the anaesthetist drugged me I told the nurse I really appreciate what you do. Very corny but I really do! I also don’t remember anything that happened in the hour after that! I will take their offer for the first 3 days and probably head to a GP for the other 2. I will check if they can extend their offer to all 5 days (as they suggested changing the dressing every day for 5 days)
I love it when healthcare workers are so understanding to people outside the Medicare system and know how annoying it is to organise shit that most people take for granted!
Yup 😭😭 bless her soul
You should qualify for post acute care, which will supply 3 days of dressing supplies and 7 days of home visits. Following that, you can do a search and find your local HACC/PYP provider in your local government area and call them to see if they can help.
I’m on OVHC and unfortunately my insurance provider doesn’t cover this service :(
Might still be worth a call. My workplace (too far out to help you) routinely services people who don’t fit traditional funded services with low fees. We don’t like to see people not serviced.
post acute care
Ok thanks @Eagle, I will give them a ring and find out. Actually, “The Post Acute Care (PAC) Program provides short-term services and support forthose who need extra help at home after a public hospital stay”. My stay was at a private hospital unfortunately but I can still call and find out :<
You might have more luck with the HACC/PYP services, or a GP clinic, even if you can reduce the dressing frequency to 2nd daily. It’ll probably be Bolton Clarke. They should have the ability for you to pay a fee for service, but they are a private company and can be pricey. Its worth a look though. And it’s a shame you’re not further out, we’d be happy to look after your butt crack for whatever you could afford!
Because it’s super easy to dislocate your neck to see what you’re doing when dressing your own butt crack…
I’ve seen some people try with a mirror!
Enjoy your day everyone ❤️
You too, G
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Mystery toastie, please?
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I’ll accidentally get the next person’s order instead of mine (fisherman’s eggs and a coffee) please
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Mystery toastie for me as well, plus a latte, plz chef?
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All the things that are baaaaaad for me please!
Now that’s just mean. Humph.
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I guess I’ll take forces order then. Ordinarily I’d grab a mocha and a choccy muffin, maybe a ham and cheese cormorant. I don’t know what tf a fisherman egg is and I’m not sure I want to, but I guess today I’ll be adventurous
Ham and cheese cormorant kinda sounds like a fisherman’s breakfast anyway 🤷♂️
Lol true
Mmmm, a ham and cheese cormorant sounds rather fun. Can I change my order?
Oh god swipe type screwed me over again
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The weird jingoism in the media reporting around the Sydney stabbing is extremely cringe. “Warrior” cops and “god tier legends”. Really? It is possible to report the news without being all tabloid about it.
Also “thoughts and prayers” from insert various people. Cool thanks for letting us know. Completely meaningless and predictable “sentiment”.
Yes, surprised the word Cobber didn’t come out at this end of April. Especially since so many were yelling to instant grant citizenship/residency without any knowledge of the chaps in question wanting that.
Maybe they were brave, or maybe they did it for their own egos. We don’t know so the media needs to eat a piece of bread and calm down.
I doubt ego played into the instant. Maybe later, for which the media needs to eat something much less pleasant than bread.
The bread reference was a RHOB reference.
This makes me glad I don’t consume much aussie news media
it seems that I’m not missing out on information and have missed all the nastiness
Why don’t I watch or read much news? because of decades of experience with the shitshow of aussie media I don’t even expect it be news worth watching
I think the Age has become so trashy and tabloid recently, always chasing “clicks”
I’ve been wanting to watch some of the classic movies for a while now. I think on Friday night I’m finally gonna do it. I’ve been told the godfather and the Shawshank redemption are the 2 “must watches” so since there’s godfather posters in every pizza shop in the country, it seems only fitting I order a pizza
Eventually I want to watch vertigo and some of the other hitchcoxk movies since they’re always spoken of super highly too
I watched Casablanca a few weeks back and had a lovely time. There’s a specific scene that’s so much better if you know it’s real
Yaasss! Watched it on the plane back.
I haven’t seen it but it is the basis for one of my all-time favourite SNL skits: https://youtu.be/LQKVIJnfiNM
On my yet to watch list but Spike Milligan has an hilarious account of it being screened for the troops when he was in North Africa. 😂 MST3K before MST3K.
My favourite Hitchcock movie is Shadow of a Doubt. Some must watches
To Kill a Mockingbird
Night of the Hunter
Battle of Britain
Judgement at Nuremberg
Young Savages
Deer Hunter
Midnight Cowboy
The Searchers
A Tale of Two Cities
Odd Man Out
The Third Man
O Lucky Man
From Russia with Love
Cape Fear ( with Gregory Peck )
Imitation of Life
That’s a lot. I don’t think I have enough attention span to watch all of them
Ooo love me some oldies:
- North by Northwest
- Maltese Falcon
- Rear Window
- Dial M for Murder
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
While not really a musical fan, I do like Oaklahoma, South Pacific etc.
Taxi Driver
The Graduate
Little Big Man
Have you seen the modern classic: Bee Movie? It brings together a remarkable ensemble cast (even though it’s animated). Its effectively an allegory; a representation of the human rat race (if you will) depicted as a bee colony. It follows the life of the protagonist Barry B Benson as he (long story short) saves the world. It leaves us with a heartwarming answer to the question: Can you ever bee enough? The answer is yes.
I give this review a B+
That was hilarious. Thank you lol
No, but I’ve read the first paragraph of the script about 3 dozen times
I’ve neglected yard maintenance with the lurgie and the fig tree has been dropping leaves early, so I’ve just spent half an hour raking the leaves into piles. Good thing I haven’t later start today.
In other news may have a buyer for the furniture I don’t want to take with me - fingers crossed!Pupdog gave us a freight just before bed and then Kittycat spent the night being an absolute monster. Am wfh today to take Pup to the vet this morning, must resist the temptation to nap this afternoon.
all that fartblarting about how even existing on the internet on win7 nowadays makes you a horrible monster full of disease and the one fucking box in the house that gets compromised is the win10.
Oh no! I’ll be honest I havnt heard of a home PC getting compromised in years, thats kind of scary. But yes no, people shouldnt be using an OS that is out of support.
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I had a dental appointment today to find out about lots of expensive work. The bad news is it will cost many $$$. The good news is it can all be spread out over a couple of years to maximize health insurance rebates. So it will take a while, but I can look forward to a future without gaps in my teeth. 😁
I’ve spent about 17k over the last 6 years, and have another 7 or 8k to go.
Go to the dentist regularly everyone!
Ouch. Mine will be around 11k for this round. Seeing how much trouble my mother is having with her teeth and being restricted in what she can eat is extremely motivating to get it done though.
As well as going to the dentist keeping on top of regular brushing is also really important. I’ve not been good at this (it was never really pushed when I was growing up so I didn’t really develop it as a habit) and have really focussed on it more recently. Strangely enough a toothbrush tracker has been really helpful for me - just knowing it is being recorded in an app whether or not I brushed my teeth has been enough to motivate me to be much more consistent about brushing.
I had the same issue growing up, it didn’t become a habit.
I’m a twice a day, floss at night person now.
Considering how much I’ve spent I want to protect my investment lol
Anyone else look up from their morning coffee to see a mouse casually walking across the kitchen floor like they freaking owned the place…! daaaah
In one share house we had mice that would wander around the lounge room while we were watching tv.
Not quite, I’ve seen a dead mouse while looking up from my morning coffee however.
That was a couple of weeks ago.
Perfect excuse for getting a cat lol
Have dog. Not a cat person. But it would be helpful.
get a rat terrier
Got some making a racket in the ceiling. And the dreaded dead stench as they die.
Cafe? Or home?
Home
I live in a relatively new house, kept very clean (we pay someone, as well as dealing with my own somewhat annoying compulsive cleaning tendencies). We have two major builds in our street at the moment, and fuck me, the mice are on the march. so yes, I saw a mouse yesterday. I have a new dog, supposedly of a ratting breed, and he is so far adorably useless.
he is so far adorably useless.
He and I have a lot in common!
I had one pop up from the stove while I was having breakfast
Latest daycare germs: a stupid dry cough. Tedious as f.