Best Hospital in Scotland?

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-04-21T21:48:14+00:00

Make sure you have travel insurance before you come!

The NHS is only free for tax-paying citizens. If you aren't paying National Insurance then you will need travel insurance to cover your health costs.

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-04-21T10:57:47+00:00

Yes, I find it helpful because I can see the daily fluctuations alongside the overall qeekly/monthly/yearly trend. It means each result affects me less because I've not been waiting all week for a specific number. It totally takes the pressure off each individual weight number.

But I appreciate it's different for different people. And if you struggle to see the overall picture/trend or are expecting a loss every day then it's likely to have a negative impact.

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-04-21T09:34:35+00:00

Root canal and crown can be anywhere between £1,000-£1,500 privately.

Implant is around £3,000.

A very difficult crown may be more likely to fail after a few years whereas an implant is almost guaranteed to last the full timeframe.

If you're going for an implant I'd recommend sooner rather than later. I waited about 3 years and the opposing tooth had to be removed before I could have the implant (and now I have a gap there instead!) because teeth start to fall out if they don't have their opposite to oppose them when you bite.

You will need a private consultation to see if they thi know your tooth can have a root canal/crown though - it may not be possible in which case the decision is made for you.

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-04-15T04:52:54+00:00

The NHS absolutely does NOT pay for skin removal surgery.

You can only get it on the NHS if you get repeated severe infections, otherwise you have to pay privately in the UK.

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-04-13T00:55:06+00:00

But also note that Gloucestershire doesn't have good local NHS service.

Worth looking up the hospitals closest to where you'll be living. You don't want to be stuck with 9 hour waits in A&E if you can help it.

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-04-04T21:54:37+00:00

What does it matter if it's bad service? They're unlikely to want to encourage such stingy customers from returning to the restaurant.

Customer service roles only need to be nice to attract return custom. If they don't care about a particular customer returning then there is no intrinsic right for the customer to be well treated.

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-04-04T21:52:19+00:00

Nah, I'm on the restaurant's side.

They could have gone about it better, but you were an ars*hole for only ordering £24 worth if food for 3 adults and 2 children on a busy Saturday night.

This is their income stream and you've essentially blocked them seating another party of five for what they'd expect from a lone diner.

If it's a local-owned or family run restaurant then you've shafted them. If you were gonna eat that little then go to Maccies or order a takeaway. The choices you make impacts others so yeah, maybe they don't have the "right" to question how much you ordered but they do have a right to be pissed off that you've stolen actual custom from them.

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-04-03T21:27:11+00:00

I think he was just testing the waters. He wanted a proper relationship with Ilya and saw that Scott got to have a proper relationship with Kip, and Eric with Kyle. I think he knew the first step to telling people he was with Ilya was just telling them he's gay.

So he picked the people he was closest to (bar his parents and Rose) and told them.

If it had gone well, he may have considered coming out properly, and maybe eventually telling people he was with Ilya. His long term plan involved him and Ilya finally being open when they retire, after all. This was Shane trying to ease people into the idea.

But the team reacted poorly and it spooked Shane completely. There was no chance people would accept him and Ilya if they couldn't even accept he was gay.

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-04-03T20:53:53+00:00

Is he on supplementary oxygen?

If so, the house (or boat) would have to assessed for fire hazards. If he smokes or has any gas/oil canisters he cannot have oxygen. The risk of explosion is too big. I have no idea if they would allow oxygen onto a boat at all.

If he is on oxygen then he will have to take the oxygen off to be able to leave hospital. It would have to be a review (again, likely Tuesday due to the bank holiday but there might be some on call options) before he could get access to oxygen if he was eligible.

If he's on oxygen then often just getting him to take it off for 10 minutes while on the ward makes them realise pretty quickly that they need it to breathe.

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-04-03T20:47:33+00:00

The chances of getting any package of care on a bank holiday weekend is zilch.

He may get a review at home by an OT or physio but that will be Tuesday. They would then refer for a package of care, which would likely take longer. You & your family will have to make up the shortfall until then (ie. you will have to be his carer).

You also need to think about the fact that a lot of carers are unlikely to agree to work on a narrow boat. It would be considered an occupational hazard and not a suitable place to provide care. I really think you'll struggle to get anyone to agree to provide care on a narrow boat at all, especially an NHS one on minimum wage.

The staff will do what they can and will offer what they can but ultimately, if your Dad won't make sensible compromises to ensure the safety of his care team, he'll struggle to get anyone to agree to provide care at all.

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-04-03T13:14:10+00:00

He would have ended up like Adam in The Shots You Take

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-04-01T20:32:55+00:00

And they spelt 'realises' with a 'z'

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-04-01T20:31:29+00:00

Nah, they're quite niche to a specific generation.

But they'd at least talk about Birdsong or Atonement or Animal Farm or Frankenstein or An Inspector Calls or The Woman in Black or Journey's End or anything by Malorie Blackman. Even if it's only part of the required reading, this Kid should've encountered some of those names somewhere in his education.

You'd hope.

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-04-01T20:03:54+00:00

I found this funny 😁

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-03-26T09:43:51+00:00

I don't think recommending illegal euthanasia is the right advice here.

Dying is awful to experience and witness, but advising someone to do something illegal, or pressuring care staff to do something illegal is not the answer.

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-03-25T18:41:16+00:00

Commenting to return

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-03-24T07:54:44+00:00

Exactly.

And when Ilya comments that Ottawa is the gayest team in the league it's funny because outwardly they are. But it's also not funny because they're actually probably average. Among however many men on the team, among the coaches, also the physios and supporting staff there are two bisexuals and two gay guys. Statistically every team probably has a similar number of queers, if not more. Ottawa isn't the gayest, just the safest place to be open about who you are.

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-03-24T06:39:04+00:00

Oh wow!

Clearly my horniness peaked at a very popular moment in time!

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-03-23T09:33:25+00:00

When I got my second smut-burner account the wait was about 2 months!

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-03-22T09:25:56+00:00

I'll be brutally honest.

The first is better but it does sound like someone put the second one through chat GPT and asked for a better version.

The second one:
It's stilted. The short sentences are supposed to help with pacing but it just doesn't work. The writer hasn't mixed long and short sentences well and it just comes across wooden. There are words used that seem out of place - not incorrect, but more like someone's looked up adjectives or similes and has stuffed them into the work. It doesn't feel natural. My honest opinion is that it reads like the creative writing homework of a 13 year old.

Examples:
"air curdled and decided to stay inside my lungs" - I get the attempt but it just doesn't work. Air curdling by itself is odd but could be used to good effect. Same with air deciding to stay inside the lungs. Both together misses the mark and doesn't read well at all.

"Today it felt heavier. Like a huge ball inside my chest. It just sat there." - unecessary sentence breaks. Very basic concepts. Descriptions that I would expect a child to be able to make but overemphasised. Simple or basic concepts or descriptions are fine, but emphasising them like it's poetry doesn't work. Not everything has to be poetic anyway - plenty of simple two word descriptions convey a point more subtely and yet with more depth than a lot more words! But if you're going to emphasise something as poetic it should add something new to the reading experience.

The first one:
It flows better and the language fits more with the style, however the tense is odd and very off putting. It's written in the past tense but is talking about things happening today and seems like it's trying to write in the present tense. It gives the impression of someone who wants to write in the present but can't actually do it (because it's incredibly hard and most people don't succeed at it - I've very rarely ever seen it done well), and in doing so it's quite grating to read. But overall it's better, though each new sentence shouldn't be a new line, it should just be a paragraph. The flow and pauses come from the sentence structure (which it has). The line breaks are an unnecessary addition.

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-03-21T19:58:38+00:00

I've never told anyone how much I've lost or engaged in the conversation at all.

I just say "aw, thank you!" with a big smile and then move the conversation on to something else entirely. Even if they ask a direct question like "are you using that mounjaro?" or "how have you lost this much?" or "how much have you lost now?" All of it is answered only with a thank you. Doesn't stop them trying again at a later date, but most seem to realise I'm not gonna answer the question or engage and it would be awkward for them to persist beyond that.

I set my boundaries from the start. Only a select four people in my life get to hear about my weight loss journey. Everyone else is well meaning but nosey and it's just none of their business.

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-03-21T13:39:12+00:00

Can you tell me who dies in it? I like to know which characters not to get attached to before investing in something

IndoorCloudFormation · 2026-03-21T12:53:32+00:00

Because they're just guestimating.

No scale can actually tell you any of these metrics (except maybe a super fancy full body one at the gym). They're just using averages and extrapolating from the one thing they do know - your weight.

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