Well Carolyn, there is always joy when people are doing well. Out of curiosity I checked the Life Expectancy using the Life Insurance Mortality tables and at age 90 a female is expected to live 4.64 years. Obviously some will live longer and others shorter, but that is the Life Expectancy.
One wonders, what were the figures prior to surgery? Perhaps, depending upon the actual malignancy did this woman have a 'different' life expectancy? Perhaps not. Perhaps yes. If she was 90 when she had the operations, four months of her life expectancy is already gone.
What reaction to the surgery will there be that may shorten the 4.64 year expectancy? We do not know. At 90, she has already surpassed what many have hoped for so applaud her for reaching that magical age. As for surgery in other nations? There is the likelihood that even in advanced Great Britain they would not have provided her with surgery unless she paid for it herself. Not at 90. Personally? At age 90, I would have opted 'out' of the surgical path but then again that's me.
Joe C.
