>From: David Lubkin <extropy@unreasonable.com>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>To: extropians@extropy.org
>Subject: Re: CANCER: Okay, so I got it and then smiled.
>Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 18:05:30 -0400
>
>Natasha wrote:
>
>>Two days after Extro-5, I was told I have bladder cancer. I knew something
>>had been wrong for a couple of weeks, but it was a few minutes before my
>>presentation at Sunday's afternoon's session that I knew it was serious
>>when I saw blood clots in my urine.
>
>Natasha, I read your posting with the same disbelief that I had when first
>hearing about the 9/11 attack, and the same dismay when it sank in. I
>anticipate that you will be flooded with email and calls of well-deserved
>support, concern, and love.
>
Natasha, I also am very glad to hear of your good news.
I have had 4 relatives (lung, colon, breast and stomach; aunts and
grandmother) get cancer. They are all in remission.
>That's great. I'm delighted by the recent developments in home testing and
>automatic monitoring technologies. I can't wait until we can all routinely
>monitor key health metrics. (I'd like to see a thread on this: what can
>you monitor easily now, and what's worth doing? I might not want the
>Japanese analyzing toilet but I think I'd get a watch that monitored your
>EKG and warned if you were on the brink of a heart attack.) So many
>problems (in life overall, not just in medicine) are trivial if you detect
>and deal with them right away and become increasingly severe if you don't.
>
That sounds like a great idea, but I doubt that this will happen anytime
soon here in the USA, at least for anyone but yuppie income and above, not
unless you want to shell out big bucks. The physicians' goons,
err...lobbyists have too strong a chokehold on Corp-Gov-Media.
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