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RocketDawg

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Xenomorph said:
If you text political ads to my personal cell phone go ahead assume I'm going to vote for whoever is running against you.
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I've gotten several actual phone calls this evening, presumably political. I didn't answer - unknown number and 99% political. Caller IDs are from obscure towns in Alabama I've never heard of.
 
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Just imagine having the post hurricane tree trimmers and roofing companies on top of it. I guess when you block calls they don’t hear your VM so it’s always Hello? Hello??
 
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Curby said:
BS. We know you vote Blue, regardless
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They wonder why the political polls are generally incorrect. The main reason is that the pollsters are trying to communicate with us via our cell phones either by direct phone calls or texts. I am not going to answer either one because fear of being scammed I‘ve received at least 30 either political adds or poll request. For awhile I was receiving a bunch of political adds from Colorado.
 
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GloryDawg said:
My PSA was 9.3 last week. I am having biopsy tomorrow.
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Glad you got checked. At my yearly physical, with a new young Dr, the conversation got borderline heated when I told her to check the PSA levels as part of the regular bloodwork. She was adamant that test was not recommended or approved for someone under the age of 40. When she used the term “healthcare economics” I almost blew a gasket. “Ma’am, you’re already drawing the blood. Check the box on your computer that you want the machine performing the test for the other stuff to also check the PSA at the same time. It’s no additional work other than clicking in the little box on your tablet. There is no additional cost. The entire process is automated.”
Pretty sure she thought, this old guy has lost his mind. The test was run, my PSA is still low.
 
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Whoever wins this election needs to immediately make a law that outlaws sending unsolicited political texts to cellphones. I have been bombarded. I have marked everyone as spam but they keep coming.
 
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jethreauxdawg said:
Glad you got checked. At my yearly physical, with a new young Dr, the conversation got borderline heated when I told her to check the PSA levels as part of the regular bloodwork. She was adamant that test was not recommended or approved for someone under the age of 40. When she used the term “healthcare economics” I almost blew a gasket. “Ma’am, you’re already drawing the blood. Check the box on your computer that you want the machine performing the test for the other stuff to also check the PSA at the same time. It’s no additional work other than clicking in the little box on your tablet. There is no additional cost. The entire process is automated.”
Pretty sure she thought, this old guy has lost his mind. The test was run, my PSA is still low.
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Last year around June my PSA was 5.58. They did an MRI and I had a 5-millimeter spot. It was a query 3. About a 20% chance of cancer. He did biopsy and it was negative. I went back this past July and my PSA was 7.3. He was not concerned about it, but he sent it off to Cleaveland Ohio to a lab where they do the ISOPSA. This is supposed to be the most accurate test available. He said he would call me if it came back with bad report. Any number over 6 in that test is high risk. He did not call me back, but I had an appointment four months later made. That was last week. My PSA was 9.3 and he said let's do another biopsy. He also said let's do this new test they have available at the Cleaveland Clinic. I told him he did it last time. He said I did? So, he looked and sure as **** he did. When he saw that test from four months ago, he said really low "Oh ****". Not what you want to hear.
 
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GloryDawg said:
Last year around June my PSA was 5.58. They did an MRI and I had a 5-millimeter spot. It was a query 3. About a 20% chance of cancer. He did biopsy and it was negative. I went back this past July and my PSA was 7.3. He was not concerned about it, but he sent it off to Cleaveland Ohio to a lab where they do the ISOPSA. This is supposed to be the most accurate test available. He said he would call me if it came back with bad report. Any number over 6 in that test is high risk. He did not call me back, but I had an appointment four months later made. That was last week. My PSA was 9.3 and he said let's do another biopsy. He also said let's do this new test they have available at the Cleaveland Clinic. I told him he did it last time. He said I did? So, he looked and sure as **** he did. When he saw that test from four months ago, he said really low "Oh ****". Not what you want to hear.
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That sucks that he may not have looked at the damn Cleaveland Clinic results. Some things you don’t make mistakes on. Reviewing cancer screening results is one of them.
 
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jethreauxdawg said:
Glad you got checked. At my yearly physical, with a new young Dr, the conversation got borderline heated when I told her to check the PSA levels as part of the regular bloodwork. She was adamant that test was not recommended or approved for someone under the age of 40. When she used the term “healthcare economics” I almost blew a gasket. “Ma’am, you’re already drawing the blood. Check the box on your computer that you want the machine performing the test for the other stuff to also check the PSA at the same time. It’s no additional work other than clicking in the little box on your tablet. There is no additional cost. The entire process is automated.”
Pretty sure she thought, this old guy has lost his mind. The test was run, my PSA is still low.
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I don’t give a 17ing 17 about 17ing healthcare economics

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My father died of prostate cancer

His father died of prostate cancer

And while reasonable people may discuss if the PSA test is as useful as many people may think, I formerly worked for a very short time in the same department as the guy who developed that test, Thomas Stamey… brilliant man… and he also said that there’s nuance to it as well…

If I ever have to change urologists and the new doc goes into healthcare economics, I’ll be sure to bring my Stanford Department of Urology coffee cup and discuss heredity, PSAs, and nuance…

I may not be an MD, but I’m a much more informed civilian than the average Joe…
 
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