Nightmaretony wrote:
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Got my medical fun with 2 cancers am working on.
Someone else had briefly mentioned your maladies. I'm really sorry to hear this, although your likelihood of working through it is better now than it ever has been. The hematologist/oncologist who has been treating me ever since I developed my ITP problem (five years of survival and counting!) says he has seen a statistically significant improvement in the survival rate of his cancer patients over the last 10 years. He says quite a bit of it can be credited to better treatments that are also less destructive to healthy tissue. Let's hope that works in your favor as well!
ElEctric_EyE wrote:
Glad to have you back BDD! I was wondering what happened to you. You always were a sort of a vocal kind of chap.
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Which is good IMO.
That's what you get when you cross an Irishman with a computer: a "vocal" chap.
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Back before the digital age, "vocal" was what resulted from crossing an Irishman with some Jameson.
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Sorry to hear of your guys' maladies. Age brings wisdom and health concerns I guess... Where is that balance of excercising the mind and the body?
Exercising the body apparently can't prevent one from getting ill. However, there is some evidence that keeping the brain active, especially on some of the complicated stuff we monkey with, may forestall aging effects, especially Alzheimer's.
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I'm 42 and just had a physical after 11+yrs of not seeing a doctor. All I have is high blood pressure which I guess I should be very thankful to my Maker. Which I am!
You should do something about that hypertension before it does something to you. A guy your age with that problem is heading toward a cardiovascular train wreck. I don't mean to pontificate, but I spent a month in a rehab place full of people who didn't watch their blood pressure and are now battling the effects of strokes, etc. Fortunately, hypertension wasn't my problem (my messed-up immune system was mostly to blame).