Quote from: GeoffA on September 02, 2025, 09:11:18 AMWhile the list is being updated, could we have Vitrifrigo added to the list please?

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GG

Quote from: Fizzie on September 02, 2025, 07:37:29 AMNeed to update my vote, as we've got a Thetford in the van, but you don't have them listed

Could they be added  

Added for your voting pleasure

GG

Quote from: prodigyrf on August 29, 2025, 07:33:52 PMHere's the Kiwi approach to Road User Charging that has to come with declining fuel excise-
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/next-steps-replacing-petrol-tax-electronic-road-user-charges

It's been nearly impossible to interfere with digital odometers for quite some time with modern cars and interesting how you could buy forward blocks of kms for your car with RUC like pre-paid electricity. In any case black box recorders like aircraft are coming with cars if they're not hardware available already and able to be switched on with software in future.

You can see the future coming here with personal based kms as we step into the self-driving future even with your own car. No need for Rego and Insurances as it's all wrapped up in the individual and what sort of safe driver you are rather than car based now. No more stolen cars or high-speed chases as the car won't allow it and you need a personal pay per km licence key to operate anyway. Yep we're definitely on the way there with more and more control by the computers on wheels and less and less the nut behind the wheel.

Across the ditch with your diesel you had to estimate your annual driving distance and pay up front.

I believe my experience could serve as a warning to those with a tendency to adopt a "she'll be right - I will ignore possible signs and wait-and-see" mentality.

I had had the odd PSA test, but the doc was not putting it on the annual blood tests form.
After I realised this and also realised I had missed one yearly test, I insisted on a test. It came back around 5, over twice the 2 it was 2 years earlier.
Doc said, "It may be OK, it is not high, though the doubling in 2 years is of note/possible concern. We can 'wait-and-see (monitor) or you can go to a Urologist and discuss with him".
I opted for the Urologist.
He said," The figures are low. We can wait-and-see, or we can do a biopsy"
I chose the biopsy (samples taken of the prostate by a snapping/sampling device up the rear end - where access to he prostrate is the closest).
Results came back as "very slow growing, low-grade cancer in one quarter of the prostate. Not of high concern".
The urologist said, "We can wait-and-see and take more samples in 6-12 months, or you can investigate possible treatment options that you can take with the view of taking action if you wish, at your timing".
I chose "treatment options" - surgical (open surgery or robotic), or radiation (external or brachytherapy therapy - where small dots of radiated material - "seeds"- are placed inside the actual Prostate).
It took about 6 months for me to research, speak with surgeons and therapists, go to lecture/info sessions and have suitability tests for some options, before I opted for robotic removal.
No "wait-and-see".
Walked into the hospital at 7 AM, had the removal, and walked out 8 AM the next day.
Biopsy results of the removed prostate were that the cancer had spread to 100% of the prostate, but had not escaped the prostate sack/capsule. (so much for "very slow growing, low-grade cancer in one quarter of the prostate. Not of high concern") Had it escaped, then that would have been an altogether another whole ball game of ongoing treatment. 

10 years on, and other than some small leakage issues, all has been, and is, well.

The point is that although the PSA figures were low, it was the doubling in the relatively short time of 2 years that set off my journey - thanks to my insistence on the PSA test and then the "on the ball" GP once he analysed the results.
And if I had taken the "wait-and-see" option at any one of the steps on my journey, I am sure I would be in a much less healthy position today.

Do not be like a friend of mine,  Ignored urine flow signs, putting them down to "getting old", and not chasing up with the GP for PSA tests (I think that maybe he did not know of the test, or just put a low level of interest in it, if he did know).
Anyway, one day his doctor recommended the test.  He got a phone call a few days later, insisting he make an appointment ASAP.  This appointment revealed his PSA was 99!
Test/X-rays, etc, revealed the cancer had escaped the capsule and was in other parts of the body. Too late for any surgery, 12 months of chemo and radiation and hormone treatment. PSA eventually went down to under 1 after a couple of years of this, only to quickly shoot up again 18 months later. 
He is now terminally ill.

Take note, ignoring your PSA test can be fatal.

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Well done guys, looks good and is fast.

    This is a great thread. Every one needs to take care of themselves.

A PSA test is simple, blood test and pee in a jar, I think every male should monitor psa as a minimum. Education is key and we need to get it out in the open more. I feel prostate is fast becoming one of the more prolific problems in men's health but one that can be managed with good outcomes if caught early enough.
I have had tests for over 15 years the more regular as I passed 50 as they've been on the higher side at up to 7. Now 7 doesn't seem a big number until I think the norm is <2. It has been stable and I have seen the Urologists on a number of occasions and had the rubber glove treatment. 18mths ago it spiked to 8.2 and my GP referred me again.. MRI showed no shadows. Psa dropped again 6.8, 2 Months ago the 6mth check showed 7.6 again. Urologist was concerned because the prostrate measurements were too small at 40 something for the result so I have just had a TRUS biopsy (up the rear passage) and get the results soon. So an enlarged Prostate may not be the only indicator, things are individually based, what I feel/have is not necessarily what someone else will have so best thing is just Do the Test.

Regards
Paul

 

While the list is being updated, could we have Vitrifrigo added to the list please?

Need to update my vote, as we've got a Thetford in the van, but you don't have them listed

Could they be added