Ewan McGregor crossed my path, walking down Baker Street, chatting with a woman about a school!
According to the office monkeys, he does actually live in London somewhere.
If brain surgery isn’t a fame magnet then the hallucinations are certainly not what I expected! I was actually late to work, when I saw him, returning from an appointment with my neurosurgeon..
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I know nothing new, basically. They still don’t know what it is. The tests seemed to suggest it’s not an infection like originally thought but Dr Shakir mentioned the tests are not always accurate. Great. I’m booked in for another MRI scan late July. I saw the pics of my original MRI – very cool!! He said I could get a copy on CD too – beats your bog standard broken arm x-rays that’s for sure! 😀
He lives/d in Marylebone so he’d be around the corner from his place. Good spot.
Can you email me some brain please. I need it.
Hmm… am jobless and able to hang around Marylebone like a bad smell.. note to self: bring camera.
OMG! Ewan McGregor! That’s so cool! Why did it have to happen AFTER I’d come home? 🙁
OMG! Ewan McGregor! That’s so cool! Why did it have to happen AFTER I’d come home? 🙁
Should’ve known there was something seriously wrong with you when you kept grumbling about your health in your blog! Glad you’re looking good.
Do you get all this on the NHS, or are you using travel insurance you got back in Australia? My Austalian girlfriend is heading out here form Melbourne for a couple of years and she can’t decide whether to splash for insurance. That makes it sound like I’ve a girl on each continent…
RA: "Cheque’s in the mail" as they say. Would you like fries with that?
Miz Ling: I know I stood you up the other day but it was for a good cause – I look much better with my hair cut. Must remember to say "Dry cut! No wash!" so they don’t charge me extra. The head rub IS satisfying though.. 😉
Suz: Luck of the draw I’m afraid. I’m sure he knew you were in town and just didn’t think the public could handle two stars at once.
Huw: Hindsight is great ain’t it 🙂
A day or so after my second op, I was visited by the hospital’s International Officer who asked me all about my situation – where I live, how long I’ve been here, if I’m working here, what visa I’m on, etc.
I asked if I was covered with the reciprocal Medicare/NHS agreement for Aussies and he said: given how long I’d been here and that I was working and had an Ancestry visa, I was covered as a normal English citizen, fully within NHS, and there would be no need to claim the money back from Oz. I didn’t argue with the man.
I only take out travel insurance for when I’m on the move, e.g. I had 4 months travel insurance while I was touring and took out a small policy when I went to Prague (in case camera gets stolen, etc).
Definately get it for the flight over and maybe some time here initially but after that.. well.. your call but I think it’s unnecessary.
Cool, thanks, that’s how I figured it. The only use I could see for it would be an air-ambulance – if you’d had cover, and possibly your circumstances were different you could probably have claimed for one back to Australia.
I was treated the same way back in Australia as you are here – although I did have a lot of hassle convincing Medicare at times, even having Dr Michael Wooldridge, the then Health Minister, intervene at one point… I did always think I should get ambo cover, but never got round to it and never needed it. I think only motor vehicle drivers are charged for ambulances in the UK.
Good luck
I was paranoid about what would happen if my bike was stolen while I was touring – not only a lot of expensive kit gone but cost of replacement or the return travel costs were my main issues.
Ambo cover in Oz isn’t under Medicare and is a separate (small) cost whereas over here I heard it was included in NHS funding or something so ‘users’ don’t pay for it (I’d not heard about drivers being made to pay).
I took a taxi to hospital because I was worried I might have to pay crazy amounts for the ambulance trip, being uninsured. It wasn’t until after the ops that I was told ambos are included.
Lucky I wasn’t being ill when the second taxi arrived – otherwise I was going to catch a bus! :S
Yes, I got insurance for touring in Europe on the way back to the UK from Australia, but ’cause I’m British I was warned it would not be valid in my home country, even though I bought it from an Australian company, in Australia.
I’ve both read, and heard it anecdotally, that the driver at least, maybe not passengers, is liable for a charge for an ambulance to a road traffic accident. I don’t know how much truth there is to it. I could try and find out, you know, with the internet or something, but it probably wouldn’t change anything for me – adverts and flyers for ambo cover were common in Melbourne, and there was usually a blank form for it on the pinboard by the phone wherever I was living and I didn’t ever get it. I’ve never heard of it here so what are the odds of me getting it now?