I/we have a mutual life insurance policy. The reason why is that I/we have a mortgage and a business loan. Shit happens. I am just on the up side of a prostate cancer diagnoses. I will be fine and won’t need to trigger the policy but if I had to I could have left my wife debt free and in a better place to handle life without me. I/we have a plan to phase out the policy over the next few years as the financial landscape settles into something a little more directionally stable but for now I/we are navigating this transitional phase with feet in both camps.
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Appreciate the insight!. My father just got put on active surveillance for lower risk prostate cancer. Hope for the best.
Ah, right, his PSA is on the rise. It used to be a death sentence but they have made great progress with treatment. Make sure you monitor your own PSA levels starting in your forties. If possible don’t wait for the system to tell you when. I had one several years ago and it was very low so no one thought anything about it. Only a few years later and it’s skyrocketing and straight to surgery and it looks like it was caught just in time. You are apparently 50% more likely to develop it if you have a parent or sibling test positive. Be proactive my friend!
Glad to hear. A friend of my dad’s also went to get tested after hearing about his and his psa was > 100! It was about a week ago so he’s probably going to need surgery asap after an mri