Don’t get cancer

Well, there is minimal choice in being able to avoid it. But you do have a choice when it comes to chemo. They wanted me to do chemo for my colon cancer after surgery to remove the growth, for prophylactic reasons--increase my odds of postponing or preventing further cancerous growth. It would give me a 23% increased odds of surviving an additional two years. Having watched my wife go through five cycles of chemo, I knew what that torment would be like, so I would be lucky if one of those two years had any quality of life whatsoever. So I said no thanks. My wife was two decades younger and the grandkids were still very young when she opted for chemo. Totally different situation.