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Five years post-surgery for prostate cancer. I knew it was probably coming because my grandfather died of it in the early-70s and my dad had the old-school surgery in the early-90s (both in their early/mid-fifties) so I went to get a psa when I was 44 to have a baseline to work from ten years later. It came back high around Thanksgiving 2013 and got higher. The younger you are, the more aggressive it tends to be and mine was. If I'd waited another year to have the psa done, I would've been in trouble. I had successful robotic surgery around St. Pat's 2014. Done. Zero to sixty and back to zero in roughly three months.

Get tested. I know there's all kinds of pushback with psa tests, but they do high-res prostate mri's now that are far more effective than biopsies to confirm/refute psa results. Catch this one early and chances are that you'll be ok. Miss that window (or just ignore it like my grandfather) and you're fucked.
 
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I've had a basil cell and squamous cell removed. One from each shoulder (the cost of having been a lifeguard)

My wife, however, had serious (eventually fatal) cancer. It was initially diagnosed as colon cancer but was actually appendiceal. The misdiagnosis affected treatment that might have
cured her. Life is a bitch!
 
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Took my mom at 64 and her sister at 54. If you think I'm one of those guys who works until 70 then looks at his "bucket list", think again. They both had bucket lists.

My retirement is nigh, and well before 60. If the biggest problem that creates is a money shortage at 85 it'll be a good problem.
 
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Jake said:
Took my mom at 64 and her sister at 54. If you think I'm one of those guys who works until 70 then looks at his "bucket list", think again. They both had bucket lists.

My retirement is nigh, and well before 60. If the biggest problem that creates is a money shortage at 85 it'll be a good problem.
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Having gone in 11 days from a routine colonoscopy to major colon cancer surgery (last Monday), I highly endorse Jake's wisdom. You never know when your life calendar plan will turn out to be as accurate as a Revenge Tour.

'Live your life while you have your life' sounds like a simple enough premise, but the reality is you have no way of knowing which idiot will be texting and run the stop light, which cancer will show up at the oddest time, or how the grand genetic lottery will throw some other health crisis at you.

Which is all to say, go to Machu Picchu before you are rocking the Hoveround and oxygen tank.
 
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RugbyBuck said:
I know there's all kinds of pushback with psa tests, but they do high-res prostate mri's now that are far more effective than biopsies to confirm/refute psa results. Catch this one early and chances are that you'll be ok. Miss that window (or just ignore it like my grandfather) and you're fucked.
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Best Buckeye said:
Congrats on surviving. Mine was noticed on a scan as a very small node by my pulmonologist, if not for that I be watching grass grow from the root end.
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Congrats both of you. My dad did the ignore thing. Worked out not at all.

While we are on the subject, while cancer sucks, chemo is a stone cold bitch as well.
 
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Gatorubet said:
Congrats both of you. My dad did the ignore thing. Worked out not at all.

While we are on the subject, while cancer sucks, chemo is a stone cold bitch as well.
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I'm retiring at 55 next year. Financially I'll be good for 20 years if I never work again, and I plan to work again.

What I'll no longer be is tied to a desk for 50 hours a week. I'll work when I like, as I like, or not work at all. If I have to check out at 75, so be it. My parents never got close to that decision, and I have no fear of an afterlife. I'll control the only life I know I have for as long as possible.
 
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My brother in law had lung cancer which took him. Just a freaking miserable way to go. He was a Marine. He suffered greatly at the end. Was in the intelligence business for a government agency. If you smoke, stop! Please for your own sake and those you love, stop!
If you're having trouble peeing go see a urologist. Chances are it's just an enlarged prostate but it could be more. Get a PSA test every year. Get a colonoscopy or do the new Cologuard at home test. Shit in a box! If you got something growing on your face, have a dermatologist have a look. I had some basil cell cancer removed by a Moh's procedure. It leaves a much smaller "hole" to be patched!
Mohs Surgery
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Fun fact a Nationwide actuary shared with me a few years ago. If you retire healthy at the age of 65, your life expectancy is approximately 100 years of age. The over 100s are the fastest growing age group in high-income countries. Always factor that into your retirement plans.
 
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Steve19 said:
Fun fact a Nationwide actuary shared with me a few years ago. If you retire healthy at the age of 65, your life expectancy is approximately 100 years of age. The over 100s are the fastest growing age group in high-income countries. Always factor that into your retirement plans.
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If I live to 100 then my only shot is if WalMart and Meijer are still hiring greeters in 55 years.
 
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Dryden said:
If I live to 100 then my only shot is if WalMart and Meijer are still hiring greeters in 55 years.
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She'll be waiting...

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