Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:08:28 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
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Pancreatic cancer is really nasty.  We've lost a couple of friends that
way.  It presents no symptoms until you're already toast. The few cases
I've heard of where people survived were due to a surgeon being in the
area for something else and spotting it.

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I talked to my neighbor and he said he was ready to retire and do some
serious fishing. It was about two months after retirement and he was dead.
I talked to his son and they had managed to get in a last fishing trip.
He'd started chemo but it did little good if not killing him faster.

Was he very career oriented? I have a theory that many who are overly career oriented and place their full identity and value in their job and career, cannot handle forced retirement. When deprived of their jobs and careers, they just whither and die.
I have an acquaintance and his father was very much about saving and preparing for retirement. He was a senior oil executive, and a year or so before retirement he gets a stroke, and while surviving, he's not able to enjoy all the things he planned. Very tragic!
My mother asked me, before she died, to stop saving all the time, and actually try to enjoy life from time to time. Even though I'm not good at it, I do think about her advice and I try to enojoy more fishing trips and stuff, than I did before she died.

Please, everyone (well, at least those of the male persuasion), if
you're over 50 and haven't yet had a PSA test, get one done.

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During my first visit my doctor offered to prescribe a PSA test but said
it often showed false positives and worried you over nothing. I got the
finger wave instead.  That was over 20 years ago. My prostate isn't
getting any smaller but I've hit the point most males reach where you die
with prostate cancer, not of it.
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It's like colonoscopy. I had one. TMI but I waived the anesthesia and
could watch the process on the monitor. Very interesting. 10 years later I
elected the stool sample. After 75 they no longer do them. If you've made
it that far...

Again, if it takes a lot of people fondling my anus and my penis in order to live a long life, I think it might not be for me.