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Going to be away for a while.
I'm going to be away for a while due to some surgery starting tomorrow I should be back in 5 or 10 days.
Keep on Puffin.
Woodsman
Keep on Puffin.
Woodsman
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Hope you have a speedy recovery Woodsman, you are in our thoughts and prayers!
I hate doctors. My surgeon and radiologist in 2000 informed me that I had an 80% chance of living five years if I took the high intensity/large aperture course of radiation that they recommended/demanded..... and offered no odds if I refused. After a week of "post discharge colitis," followed by "post surgical neuropathy" (i.e., sciatica) I was in no freakin' mood to put up with more doctoring, and especially so after they said the radiation would leave me a permanent invalid. Screw that.
Well, it's 2017 and I'm still here babbling to y'all suffering no consequences from my decision.... at least thus far, and in so far as I know. I do go to a cardiologist, but I avoid my regular physician like poison. I wouldn't recommend anyone else behaving this way, but it works for me.
In my experience tending to end-of-life situations, no one gets out of here alive, and it most often ends badly.
By the by, back in the day (2000) In did consider suicide ("Ya know, if I just took this whole bottle of morphine tablets......). At that moment, I poured the remainder of the bottle down the toilet. (My surgeon didn't want to be bothered, and had prescribed 250 morphine tablets...... In retrospect I think that was irresponsible.) After two months, I got to a pain clinic where I was prescribed a brain chemical and an anti-depressant, which kept me going for eight more months until the sciatica receded.
Life sucks and then you die, eh?