I'm so old I Remember when:

[Evadig]

Henry Kissinger died Wednesday. I had no clue he was even still alive!

 

[Folly's place]

He was 100 years old! Remembered, for both good and not so good things.
Mary

 

[Nomadicus]

Good morning and happy Friday to those who are reminiscing today.

 

[tranquiliti]

Henry Kissinger died Wednesday. I had no clue he was even still alive!

Kind of like Strom Thurmond a few years ago

 

[tranquiliti]

Kind of like Strom Thurmond a few years ago

I don’t know how to feel about 20 years being “a few”

 

[tripletfeb]

My BIL used to be the Maytag Repair Man. Now he works for someone else. He always stops by when he is in the neighborhood. It's always nice to see him.

Ask him why my Maytag washer leaks

 

[pertnear09]

He was 100 years old! Remembered, for both good and not so good things.
Mary

I remember once when people were whispering out loud that he climbed Barbara Walters.

 

[jxp]

He was 100 years old! Remembered, for both good and not so good things.
Mary

Most people are complex beings.

 

[jxp]

I remember once when people were whispering out loud that he climbed Barbara Walters.

 

[dirkandlorie]

Sorry about your friend, truly.

I've always been skeptical of how the Big 3 seem to cause everything. If you stub your toe, it's because you smoke or drink or you're fat. Correlation does NOT equal causation.

Much of it is true, I'll grant. But I'd wager that people who smoke, drink or overeat (or all three) are bigger risk-takers overall with their health. (Duh.) So the friend who dies of colon cancer (attributed to smoking and drinking) probably didn't have a great diet, either - and that could very well have been the cause.

My husband is a throat cancer survivor, and he has smoked since his early 20's. Automatically, people assume the cancer is because of smoking. Well, neener neener neener, it's not. It's a strain caused by HPV in his younger years, when people weren't vaccinated for it. Cancer doc said it had nothing to do with his smoking; though they ran a full battery of tests to check, lungs were clear.

I'm just... grrr.... this is one of my soap-box triggers. No matter what ailment I have, the doctors have trained me to be reluctant to seek treatment, because it is ALWAYS because "You need to lose weight and quit smoking." Do non-smokers, non-drinkers, and skinny people never have high cholesterol? Never get Covid? Never have heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, appendicitis? I fell and tore my rotator cuff, and I heard the speech. Get a pap smear and I hear the speech. Get a refill on my acid-reflux medicine and I hear the speech.

I get it... if you hear hoofbeats in Central Park, you're not looking for zebras. But I fear my doctors will overlook my zebra (if I have one) because they're so focused on horses. But let a skinny, non-smoker, non-drinker come in with the same ailment, and they're looking for zebras.

Okay, rant over. I feel better now. Carry on.....

I know this is long time after you wrote that post, but its so wonderful to hear someone else say this!!! Medical community is brainwashed, lol!