Good to hear, Burnsie. And think I’m gonna start having poppy seed bagels for breakfast… :)
The thing about medicine is that regardless of the how the diagnostics continue to improve, it is still more of an art then a science, and will remain so until the day we can slip into the Star Trek analyzer module to be diagnosed by the computer. Until then, it will always come down to how good the doc is, or isn’t.
And so important to keep up on periodic physicals. Lot of older guys are “f… that, don’t need no doctor, healthy as a horse, waste of time”. Lost two friends with that attitude, one to a heart attack, very fit guy who ate good and excercised regularly, his post mortem autopsy showed his ventricles were plugged to the max, and most likely would have survived with routine testing and an angioplasty. Another died of colon cancer just a couple of months after a diagnosis he only got because he ended up in the ER in excruciating pain. Both dead before 60.
Many of us remember Gerald Saunders, a class act and charging surfer I shared the line-up with at G-land, who also died of colon cancer. Never saw the doc until he was symptomatic, and by that time it was far too late to survive what is a very survivable disease if caught early enough.
So make sure you see your family doc regularly, even if there are few things worse to hear then the snap of that rubber glove being put on…lol