Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 14/03/2025 04:47, c186282 wrote:

Seems like most modern meds have a HUGE list of
   horrible side-effects ... like yer dick rotting
   off from Jardiance infections. Maybe the old
   docs "two aspirin" advice wasn't far off ......
   all my old relatives who stuck to that lived
   the best and longest, and Granny never ate veggies
   for 99 years (inherited her taste buds) - she was
   just northern euro boiled beef & taters and a beer
   or two, sharp to the end .......
 

Unfortunately I know the difference between not taking the meds and taking them - side effects and all.
I've worked with my 'doc' to maximise benefit and minimise the side effects, so that its not a just a  question of prolonging a miserable existence, alone.
But its 8 pills a day, plus vitamin D in the winter and antihistamines in the summer and a steroid inhaler twice a day.
And that only stops things getting worse.

   In a couple months I have to break-in a new doc.
   Don't know what the previous put in his notes.
   I've gotta re-explain/justify staying as clear
   of "modern med" as possible ... and I do have
   stories about relatives who rotted and died from
   getting on their bandwagon. Gotta be NICE about
   it however. INTENTIONALLY didn't get corp health
   insurance because of this. If you don't have a
   bottomless well they'll suddenly find reasons why
   you don't NEED all those zillion test$/procedures/meds.

In the UK its a different scenario. People are getting lawyered up and if the GP *doesn't* send you on all those tests and you *do* end up with some unspotted cancer, they are in the shit.
They have a prescribed methodology.
As my practice chief said "in this case we normally do this immediately, then send you off for those tests, and continue treatment on the basis of what those test shows, or pass you over to the appropriate hospital department if something bad shows up".
I think there isn't an orifice in my body they haven't shoved a camera down - or worse - up... My whole body has been scanned. Apart from my brain arms and legs.  I get blood tests around 4 times a year at the moment at the behest of various departments that are 'on my case'.
I appreciate all this, because unlike so many of my friends, I am  still alive.
Not in great health, but alive.
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Canada is all right really, though not for the whole weekend.
"Saki"