Nocturne
Well-known member
Pellicle, your response illustrates further that you and I simply do not process in the same way.
I linked the most recent study because it made me feel better, and thought it may do the same for others who process as I do.
I expected the responses I got from the people who gave them, and was not disappointed.
If you truly question the value of honesty, openness, and accuracy, then I honestly do not know what to say. When my doc told me that AS was "nothing to worry about", "doesn't impact lifespan", and then, later, "you don't actually have AS", I could smell the bullshit. When he said that statins and the weight I had already lost would "freeze CAC progression", I KNEW he was bullshitting. I do not appreciate people bullshitting me in an effort to make me feel better. I realize that this is not how everyone thinks or feels, but it is how I feel and I sent along information for others who process as I do.
"It's all perception", "it's unimportant" -- these statements make zero sense to me. You and I do not process in the same way.
And I know damn well that average lifespan is not a box (although it always ends in one). My other grandfather suffered his first heart attack in his fifties, and at least one more before he died of heart failure five years ago at the age of 89, having also survived colon cancer (all of this I learned this week). No doubt his "average lifespan" would have given him far fewer years -- and he was healthy and active into his last decade, in the sense that he was independent and able to care for himself and help others. Likewise I see the folly in spending the last years of a life shortened by health issues crying over the years that were lost. I get it. Can you get that some people might just want -- even NEED -- to know the truth, and not settle for smiles, rainbows, and bullshit?
I linked the most recent study because it made me feel better, and thought it may do the same for others who process as I do.
I expected the responses I got from the people who gave them, and was not disappointed.
If you truly question the value of honesty, openness, and accuracy, then I honestly do not know what to say. When my doc told me that AS was "nothing to worry about", "doesn't impact lifespan", and then, later, "you don't actually have AS", I could smell the bullshit. When he said that statins and the weight I had already lost would "freeze CAC progression", I KNEW he was bullshitting. I do not appreciate people bullshitting me in an effort to make me feel better. I realize that this is not how everyone thinks or feels, but it is how I feel and I sent along information for others who process as I do.
"It's all perception", "it's unimportant" -- these statements make zero sense to me. You and I do not process in the same way.
And I know damn well that average lifespan is not a box (although it always ends in one). My other grandfather suffered his first heart attack in his fifties, and at least one more before he died of heart failure five years ago at the age of 89, having also survived colon cancer (all of this I learned this week). No doubt his "average lifespan" would have given him far fewer years -- and he was healthy and active into his last decade, in the sense that he was independent and able to care for himself and help others. Likewise I see the folly in spending the last years of a life shortened by health issues crying over the years that were lost. I get it. Can you get that some people might just want -- even NEED -- to know the truth, and not settle for smiles, rainbows, and bullshit?
