Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2024-12-28, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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On 28/12/2024 11:17, D wrote:

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What are statins? Sometimes I feel very young here. 😉

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I haven't needed another angioplasty since taking them.
So what statins do is worth doing. IF you can tolerate the side effects.

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I'm lucky.  I take rosavastatin (Crestor), and have no side effects.
I can even eat grapefruit, which my wife (who is taking a different
statin) cannot.  Mine is more a precautionary thing, keeping
cholestorol under control.
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Cancer is an utter bitch. I am on my second now, having fully survived
the first,  but it is ultimately incurable, just very slow developing,
so its likely something else will kill me first.

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As the saying goes, you're more likely to die with it than of it.
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The problem with some cancers is that by the time they are diagnosable,
they are already fatal. A friend died of fully metastasized bowel
cancer. The only symptom was that he was tired and a bit gaunt for years
and years, Then one day he went into hospital in total body pain and
died 3 weeks later.
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Another friend was similar.

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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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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.
I had been getting the digital rectal exam (i.e. finger up the
butt) for 10 years and it had always been negative.  One day my

Nah... I'd prefer my dignity and death over a finger up the butt every year. ;)

wife suggested I get a PSA test.  Because I was asymptomatic,

Does it involve a finger up the butt? =/

it wasn't covered by medical, but I figured it was worth the
price of a bottle of wine to find out.  It came back 20 (where
4 is considered cause for concern).  Rather than panic, I sprang
for a second test, which gave the same result.  So off I went
down the road to radical prostatectomy.  I can't believe the
number of people who decline the test because they are either
too cheap or don't want to know.  Sheesh.  If I hadn't had that
test, I'd have been dead by now.
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