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Ok, this is a thread about getting worried about your health but being scared about doing something about it due to the current state of the NHS, and basically being a cowardly man re health and addressing it.
In about 1998 I worked with a guy called Frank in my manual labour days. I was in my 40s and he was late 50's. Anyway, he retired and me and my mate went to block pave his drive. Whilst we were there he was complaining about a pain in his side, he was putting a hot water bottle on it to ease the pain. Not kidding now, within a month he was in the hospital, on morphine, he had got terminal cancer and he died real quickly. I thought, bloody hell it can be all over just like that.
That memory really sticks with me and as we get older we get pains and sh*t that usually pass within a day or so. You wake up and something nawgs you through the day, but because I saw my good friend go through that, many times in past few years I get a pain, that maybe lasts for a couple of days, inside body pain, and think ..ffs am I getting the first signs of something like that?
Well obviously you get loads of sh&t like that, I am 68 now and live an unhealthy lifestyle. I smoke and am an alcoholic nowadays who drinks a lot of whisky, a lot. I have drunk a lot since 2016 when my life went to sh*t a bit, but before that, had never ever had an issue with drink.
Do you guys get these pains that go on for days?, inside body pains? I have one now, in my side, had it for a week, but I am scared to go near a doctor, like you can get near one anyway these days. I hate hospitals with a vengeance.
If I have something really bad like my friend Frank, wtf will they do to help me? The waiting lists for anything serious are mental. Are we all buggered if we get a serious illness now????
I will probably be ok in a day or two, but do any of you guys worry that if we do get something serious wrong with us, our NHS won't be able to help us any more?? I find I do worry that if now, you get cancer or whatever, you will not get help in time?
In about 1998 I worked with a guy called Frank in my manual labour days. I was in my 40s and he was late 50's. Anyway, he retired and me and my mate went to block pave his drive. Whilst we were there he was complaining about a pain in his side, he was putting a hot water bottle on it to ease the pain. Not kidding now, within a month he was in the hospital, on morphine, he had got terminal cancer and he died real quickly. I thought, bloody hell it can be all over just like that.
That memory really sticks with me and as we get older we get pains and sh*t that usually pass within a day or so. You wake up and something nawgs you through the day, but because I saw my good friend go through that, many times in past few years I get a pain, that maybe lasts for a couple of days, inside body pain, and think ..ffs am I getting the first signs of something like that?
Well obviously you get loads of sh&t like that, I am 68 now and live an unhealthy lifestyle. I smoke and am an alcoholic nowadays who drinks a lot of whisky, a lot. I have drunk a lot since 2016 when my life went to sh*t a bit, but before that, had never ever had an issue with drink.
Do you guys get these pains that go on for days?, inside body pains? I have one now, in my side, had it for a week, but I am scared to go near a doctor, like you can get near one anyway these days. I hate hospitals with a vengeance.
If I have something really bad like my friend Frank, wtf will they do to help me? The waiting lists for anything serious are mental. Are we all buggered if we get a serious illness now????
I will probably be ok in a day or two, but do any of you guys worry that if we do get something serious wrong with us, our NHS won't be able to help us any more?? I find I do worry that if now, you get cancer or whatever, you will not get help in time?
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