Hello walter.peter Moore has replied to your post elsewhere..here it is.(If admin allows)...

Dave Foster....

At the 'other place ' a person has asked about Dave and the nature of his illness which I think is a salutary lesson for all of us.
Dave was a BBC studio sound technician but the role was privatised and he did not like the new regime so he quit.
To get some income he became a hospital porter doing permanent night shifts at some stage to boost his earnings.
A while ago like ' quite a while ago ' he got the old mans problem of having to have a piss rather often. Actually he was not that old. This was noticed on board as he took to sleeping in an armchair so as to have access to the toilet every 20 minutes. He was urged to seek a diagnosis but like so many daft men he brushed this off, even though he worked in a hospital and could maybe have jumped the N.H.S queue.
After too long he sought a diagnosis to learn that he had prostate cancer which on the face of it is often quite curable.
But due to the delay this had escaped in to his bones which caused just a holding exercise of chemo and radiation.
As his sick pay was about to be halved he even returned to work for a short while before admitting that he could not now do the job.
Various of us urged him to resign,cash in his pensions and live comfortably for ' as long as '. But he ran out of time. Along with everything else he needed dialysis but his body was too weak.
So if you even think you have a similar problem building DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT....NOW.

For a bit of humour in a sad subject I had a private health check and the nurse urged me to have a PSA test which I agreed to. As my partner was in the same room, the nurse whispered in my ear ' have you had intercourse in the last 48 hours ? ' I almost fell off the bed laughing while saying ' I wish '.

PM.


(I've got a scan next week everyone should get tested.
AgB .