Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:13:38 +0000 Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc References: <20250227080310.0000604d@gmail.com> <5R2dndtjer4GG0_6nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> From: c186282 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 07:13:32 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 61 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-AEGjZHhpApo29hhccdbkjQF4Qk3L0Ghz1om12DgEMQIb6ZbGakj736aff0ddRGYx87aUEuEncHAK9G/!gkibSXH5ep3f5tiPshifKTkTSIFksQM9CbNvxmnIJZDmjacVhPDPKeuwLqPyCrHmXZasF831VtEB X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4789 On 3/14/25 6:46 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > 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. Super bummer dude ! But not everybody is in yer position - most seem seriously OVER-medicated, OVER-tested, OVER-charged.