The two new meta analysis reviews (studies of studies) found that consuming whole grains reduces your risk of diseases that shorten your life. One published in BMJ analyzed 45 studies and concluded that whole grains can help you live longer by cutting your risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, respiratory disease, and infectious diseases. The […]
Behind Aspen’s international skiing luster lies a deep, competitive hockey culture that makes for a tough beer league. A drive to win the bragging rights to the battered Pell Cup turns architects, bartenders, contractors, lawyers, teachers, ski bums, and friends into fierce, fist-throwing rivals…former pros, Division I college players, and old goats—or, more accurately, has-beens […]
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Over the years when I invited friends over for dinner they got pretty excited. One day I asked a guest what’s with all the excitement? Chinese food! They were expecting something I really sucked at making. To this day I don’t make much Chinese/Asian stuff. I’d rather go out and eat something someone actually knows […]
When I finished reading The Writing Life by Annie Dillard I realized my writing will never achieve the level of the great ones. But I am OK with this just as I was OK with deciding not to pursue writing for a living. Too hard, too demanding, too much time spent writing words into the […]
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OK, I’m trying to decide what to do next month. I am 75 and will turn 76 in November. Three years ago I had a colonoscopy with three adenomas three years before that I also had a colonoscopy with three adenomas.
It has been three years since my last colonoscopy I saw the Gastroenterologist and he recommended one more colonoscopy. I hesitated and said I wanted to think about it and I’m wondering if it is worth the risk I’m a very difficult person to do a colonoscopy on because I’m so tiny and so thin also I have to stop my blood thinners and my age the laxatives and the electrolyte disturbance and the dizziness are risk factors.
At this point, I have a colonoscopy scheduled for the end of June along with a gastroscopy because I’ve had structures in the past no symptoms at this point, but generally when I get the colonoscopy, they do the upper at the same time so I’m trying to decide whether to keep the appointment that I scheduled in June or to just say I’m finished with colonoscopies
Nobody in my family has ever had colon cancer but my father had prostate cancer and my mother had breast cancer. Any recommendations from an actuary point of view? And a medical point of view?
I don’t want to skip some test that could save my life. I’d like to live as long as possible as long as I’m physically, healthy, and mentally sound but I wonder with colon cancer if at my age I would even undergo treatment. I don’t think I would want to spend my final years recovering from major surgery, undergoing chemo and radiation so I’m not sure whether it’s worth it to get it done about the only reason I can think of is if they remove some polyps this time those polyps can’t grow into cancer in any new polyps might take more than 10 years to become cancer. I don’t know. I’m just babbling. Any thoughts?