wristwatchb
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Great advice. Agree 100% on the usefulness of having meaningful lab work done and responding appropriately. In 2019, the most basic blood test performed by our family doc indicated that something was amiss with my Bride. After further investigation, we learned that she had early stage multiple myeloma. She's trim and fit, so the blood test was our first tip that something was not right. Catching cancer early makes the difference between life and death. We sought out the world's leading experts at the Mayo Clinic for her treatment.
You would immediately recognize our Mayo Clinic doc if you saw him. I gave him a nice shave kit that included a SS Karve with OC and standard base plates, a nice boar brush, SV soap, and Feather blades. He always sports a nice shave.
A simple takeaway for me is that I'll never go more than a year without having my basic blood work done. In fact, I recently joined a clinical trial where I'm having a battery of additional blood tests performed every three years to check for precursor conditions that would eventually lead to multiple myeloma. I'm theoretically at higher risk because my Dad also had it.
I strive to understand as much as I can in order to ask good questions of the doctors. I always take a list of questions to any doctor visits. In fact, I probably drive them nuts with questions. I'm also involved in organizations that provide training via webinars, etc.
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