[Vegas69]

Wow Mike, that's some serious stamina. Good for you!

To answer your question about medical care being the 3rd leading cause, here's the break down:

Adverse drug effects: 106,000 deaths
Hospital bone infections: 80,000 deaths
Other preventable errors in hospital: 20,000
Unnecessary surgery: 12,000
Medication errors: 7,400

Moral of the story, the less medical attention you require throughout your life, the less chance you have to die from the 3rd biggest killer, MEDICAL CARE.

A good friend of mine told me a story of a very wealthy client of his recently. He had a minor rotator cuff tear and was told it was minimally invasive and he would come out of the surgery with no side effects. After the surgery, he's had intense pain in his forearm and hand. So bad that he has to take more pain meds than he'd like to ingest. He told my buddy that he would give every single dime away to get rid of the pain.

Kelli's dad had back surgery about 6 weeks ago. Shortly after his memory got fuzzy and eventually all he knew was his last name. His spinal fluid wasn't reabsorbing and he had major brain swelling. It almost killed him. They have installed a permanent shunt to drain it for the rest of his life. We are hoping he gets out of the hospital this week.

Surgery ONLY in mandatory situations.