I'm creeping up on 66. I visited a Doc that was a bit my senior not long ago and received some telling advice. To paraphrase, he said to weigh the good days against the bad and if you have more good than bad, try to live with the problem. Surgeons make money doing surgery. Often the surgery doesn't help and in some cases makes it worse.

�Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program." -- Milton Friedman