[SOC] All men need a healthy one

[Michael Coslo]

Food for thought (erm, just not tomatoes) :

It's great that there have been some many wonderful outcomes. But not all
are. I have a friend who had the procedure, and he was in diapers for about
a year, is now impotent, and says now that he wouldn't have it done if he
had the choice.

I've also heard about a lot of unneeded operations based on PSA readings.

In true second class fashion, do you know that every disease or condition
you decrease your odds of dying from increases your chances of dying from
another?

After watching my mother in law die over the course of 10 years as a
dementia patient, she who did everything right, non-smoker, non drinker,
then my own mother, who smoked and would partake of ethanol based beverages,
and ate what she wanted, and who was healthy until the day she suffered a
heart attack and was gone in a minute, I must say that the extension of life
to the ultimate longest minute is not necessarily the way to go.

    - 73 de Mike N3LI -


On 9/8/10 10:40 PM, "Derek Wills" <oo7 at astro.as.utexas.edu> wrote:

>> highly recommend the DaVinci robotic assisted laproscopic
>> prostatectomy.  No complications, no pain, uneventful recovery.
> 
>     The only way to go.   Exactly a week after going into surgery
>     I was giving 2 hour lectures at the start of the semester.
>     Two years on, PSA undetectable.  We should start a 75m net!