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John: My father is thinking about his next ski trip to Utah, and he is turning 70 next year. On our last trip out there in 2002, we met a fellow on the lift who was 79, looking forward to 80 because then they let you ski free. My father's diet and exercise habits are marginal at best, and he was lucky when they caught the cancer in his kidney thanks to cheap ultrasound and MRI. They got it before it spread, so now we're hoping the radiation he went through last year for his prostate is the last of it.
His father, meanwhile, started down the cancer well in his mid 50s, and spent the last couple years of his life slowly dying in the hospital, finally going at age 59. These days that's considered pretty sad, but back then it was pretty common. It would be nice if we had better treatments for dementia and whatnot but our progress so far has paid some pretty big dividends.
[Posted by: The Snob at October 27, 2008 8:08 PM]
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