Life / Surgery in Poland (varicose veins)...anyone with experience/advice? [18]

Macduff !
You mean vein surgery ? or any surgery at all? We're in Trojmiasto too so quite interested in your reply :)

Update: serious thought is being given to Foam Sclerotherapy ... Some "clinic in Gdansk" is being visited this evening to chat about the procedure.

I'd be interested to hear any practical experiences - as usual the internet supplies a wide range of opinion on the subject :)

/cjj

Life / Surgery in Poland (varicose veins)...anyone with experience/advice? [18]

Clinic surgeon said no to the foam scl. At least one of the veins is very wide so that technique was unsuitable. They will be stripped out - tried and tested technique.

Surgeon says he has a cancellation this weekend so at the moment we're aiming for that.
I've no clear idea of costs because we've gone through medicover -- costs then get a little fuzzier as do waiting lists. Plus, this is Mr cjj we're talking about so my info. is second hand and we haven't discussed the $s (yet).

Procedure done on Saturday, victim up and walking around the next day - can go back to sedentary job on Monday (with some care about how the leg is kept elevated etc during the working day) ...

Anyone had any dealings with clinics in Sopot? I saw one in the Gdansk 'free' newspaper last week (Metro) - forgot to note either the name or any contact number ... rather surprised to see it in the small ads.

cjj

Genealogy / Need photo from Wrzeszcz of childhood home. [53]

trojmiasto.pl/wiadomosci/news.php?id_news=35435
Is this the same cemetary - (the first one covered in the article)? My Polish really isn't good enough to pick out full details but maybe someone with decent language skills could comment.

Life / Minisurvey about living in Tricity (Sopot, Gdynia, Gdansk) [26]

Where exactly are you living? : not far from Bojano (head east from Sopot)
What's your background? : Irish female
What brings you here? : Mr cjj is Polish
Are you working and if so in what sector? : IT
How long have you been here for and how long are you planning to stay? : since 2000, settled here
What do you like the most and like the least about living in the Tricity area? : My answer to that mainly depends on the weather... (living in the countryside focusses your mind a bit on that)

/cjj

Life / Minisurvey about living in Tricity (Sopot, Gdynia, Gdansk) [26]

Trixity -
I'm settled'ish. Been away too long from Ireland to return, but would love to go back to Vancouver.
Still no way fluent in Polish - long story.
Re jobs, I've sent you half an email
cjj
(and I'm sure my brain said "WEST from Sopot ...")

Life / TESCO SUPERMARKETS IN POLAND. Where are they? [15]

There are 2 Tescos in Trojmiasto -- both just off the ring-road.

Study / School in Poland - "hellish torture? [20]

do you mean US-school or UK-school ?

UK, Ireland / Applying for Polish citizenship; problem with old style UK birth certificates [7]

this o.f. says "thanks for the warning".
yet another reason to say "no" to the whole idea ...

UK, Ireland / Applying for Polish citizenship; problem with old style UK birth certificates [7]

by the time I finished reading this, the voices in my head were saying "computer system" and "what idiot designed the database"

In the old days - with everything hand-written in books - there was at least room for manoeuvre. Now, once some dork of a designer decides "oh, yes, we'll make /this/, /this/ and /this/ to be the key fields", there's often nothing the poor users of the system can do.

A few years ago now I was sitting at my desk at work one day and overheard the senior designer talking to the database designer ... one of them announced happily "and of course PESEL will be the primary key". They were designing an HRMS system - round a database - and this design decision would have meant that every person entered into it would need a PESEL. I fought the urge to say nothing but had to pipe up with "I don't have a PESEL" (despite being at work and paying taxes). That stunned them - they couldn't imagine someone /not/ having a PESEL. Actually, during my treatment at a local hospital around that time they had to make up a PESEL for me ... one that wasn't 'real' but which still got through the field validation on the data entry screens...

In this case someone has probably designed an unholy mismash of data entry validation based on recent birth certificates and some polish-bureaucracy-based understanding of "how things are"