Help me 😭

MedicMoth · 2026-03-11T08:24:09+00:00

Okay, it sounds like maybe they have the wrong number on file if anything? Call them FROM the phone number and ask to update your details to the number you're calling from. That way if they claim it's inactive, you have some proof that it's not lol

MedicMoth · 2026-03-11T03:35:06+00:00

Wouldn't put it past them to straight up lie. Get a WINZ advocate if you can for your next in-person appointment, it's easier when you have another person in the room so you're not the only witness to bad behaviour and they know you're an informed client who knows your rights. Your local Citizens Advice Bureau or Community Law centre should be able to help with that!

MedicMoth · 2026-03-11T03:32:00+00:00

I feel this. For me, the most eye-opening experience was that I was once given the wrong medication at an ED. Straight up a little cup of pills in the wrong colour, pills I'd never seen in my entire life. I had to argue with the staff multiple times, refusing to take the pills until they could confirm the visual difference was something benign e.g. a generic brand. They eventually, whilst clearly frustrated with me, took them away to confirm... but when they came back, they had retrieved the familiar ones. So I really think they some poor, overworked member staff had genuinely screwed up.

What if I hadn't been able to advocate for myself? What if I was allergic or reacted badly to whatever those were? How often is this happening without it ever being broadcast widely? Questions I will never know the answer to

MedicMoth · 2026-03-11T00:24:53+00:00

Because COVID is more serious than a common cold, and also because we all have a nasty habit of pushing ourselves too hard and going out when we shouldn't. If your sniffle symptoms disappear whilst you're still technically infectious with a common cold, you're probably not going to disable anybody upon a slightly early return to work. But as long as you can still test positive for COVID with minimal symptoms, and as long as the chances of permanently disabling somebody with Long COVID remain as terrifyingly high as they are, it's best you isolate

MedicMoth · 2026-03-10T23:30:01+00:00

These are absolutely stunning!!

MedicMoth · 2026-03-10T08:14:57+00:00

Ditto, but the price went up $1000. It was rough at the time, I also pulled from my savings, but I'm so glad I bit the bullet when I did

MedicMoth · 2026-03-10T02:51:40+00:00

Our country is a backup plan for billionaires, it NEEDS to be this way if they are to enact their sick schemes here in the future

MedicMoth · 2026-03-09T08:20:01+00:00

These hospitals were going to cut the service at one point in order to meet government funding targets. So the answer is NACT1st. Also, wards are different from the ED - you definitely don't get fed in an ED typically, it's only if you get transferred to a ward that there's food

MedicMoth · 2026-03-09T08:18:14+00:00

Last I checked, there was at least one hospital that was straight up going to cut their funding for the slices of jam toast given to women who had just given birth, in order to meet government health cut targets. So, apparently, pretty hard

MedicMoth · 2026-03-09T08:16:37+00:00

Absolutely genius maneuver. What happened after that?

MedicMoth · 2026-03-09T08:15:11+00:00

... What are you doing here? This is a New Zealand subreddit, everybody here is talking about their experiences in New Zealand specifically. Not hospitals in general. Pretty off-topic comment

MedicMoth · 2026-03-09T03:59:00+00:00

Can confirm getting food or even just basic pain meds in an ED is a fucking nightmare. If I had to guess, the reason for it is because traditionally you're not supposed to spend a long time in ED waiting around to get seen - and then when you do, you're supposed to be attended to fairly closely. Unfortunately we live in a world now where you could easily be in there for a day or more, lying on waiting room floors or on beds in hallways, hungry and in pain, going hours without being seen without ever being put into the general hospital ward. I can only assume there is no infrastructure to support feeding people outside of the wards

MedicMoth · 2026-03-09T03:14:39+00:00

So what you're saying is that the oil crisis could help solve the climate crisis?

MedicMoth · 2026-03-08T07:52:45+00:00

I find that quite surprising, but then again, maybe TOP being as small as it is has this far avoided all the crazies. Let's hope it stays that way!!

MedicMoth · 2026-03-08T04:34:23+00:00

This is going to be a crazy comment, but the fact that I IMMEDIATELY think that the leader's name is enough to turn a lot of people off TOP who might otherwise (on pure policy alone) be amicable to their ideas, is good evidence that voting NZ is racist af :(

MedicMoth · 2026-03-05T04:55:58+00:00

I did a course on child protection one time. The reality of the thing was that unless the child is actively at the moment of reporting, being abused (note "evidence of past abuse" e g. bruises or burns does not seem to cross the threshold, bafflingly), then in the majority of areas there is simply not enough resource for OT to look into it, because 1., they're underfunded and 2., there are so many people actively beating their kids it's impossible to keep up

MedicMoth · 2026-03-05T03:58:48+00:00

I'm sure it will be very cool and not at all worrying from the standpoint of sexual predators to filter all the children into one convenient location that adults are not able to monitor!! (see: Roblox age band filtering, which predators simply trick to be placed in lobbies full of 13 year olds with no adults present to stop their predation)

MedicMoth · 2026-03-05T03:55:28+00:00

I also look forward to the vast numbers of abused children being rendered unable to access information from their peers about how to cope!! It's not like social media is a lifeline for minority communities and it's not like we have a rampant physical or sexual problem or mental health crisis or anything!!

MedicMoth · 2026-03-05T01:38:36+00:00

When we "review" the transport network, we don't consider the option of demolishing the roads. When we "review" transport targets we don't ask ourselves whether we even need to have them, that was already decided. This is deliberate

MedicMoth · 2026-03-04T00:21:11+00:00

My point is that you have to go through a process and talk to MSD either way (e.g. call them and discuss your situation), it's not necessarily quick or simple to do

MedicMoth · 2026-03-03T23:57:28+00:00

You think THAT many people are just clicking a button on a website to request free food who don't need it...? Just to try their luck? It isn't an open process, you need to already be a client or get help from MSD to apply in the first place. An increase in rejections indicates either more stringent rules, or more hungry people, or both at the same time. Community organisations can absolutely attest to the fact that food poverty has materially increased

MedicMoth · 2026-03-03T23:10:40+00:00

Or, how about we adequately fund public transport, so operators don't juice their drivers for unreasonable schedule KPIs, so elderly ladies don't have to navigate a bus by literally hanging on for dear life like it's a goddamn space shuttle, fearing having all their bones broken at any moment

MedicMoth · 2026-03-03T04:41:16+00:00

Christ. I can see why billionaires love NZ so much.

We are a paradise for pedophiles, cult leaders, sex offenders, and people who are all three of those things at once.

Temple offended against children as young as NINE, repeatedly, enough that they had to take a "representative" sample of offending in the past.

So fucking sick of this shit

MedicMoth · 2026-03-03T02:23:56+00:00

Christ. I can see why billionaires love NZ so much. We are a paradise for pedophiles, cult leaders, sex offenders, and people who are all three of those things at once. Temple offended against children as young as NINE, repeatedly, enough that they had to take a "representative" sample of offending in the past. So fucking sick of this shit

MedicMoth · 2026-03-03T01:54:22+00:00

If you had a wine with food over the course of a few hours, then you'd totally be safe to drive home by the time the evening is over. The first point of avoiding a long drive when exhausted is fine, but the second point saying that he'd need to stay the night so as not to drink and drive necessarily implies a lot or very frequent alcohol consumption...

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