Thodasa ‘problem’….

I had a patient today…a 71 yr old man with high myopia… number in both eyes of -11 and -14… he came for a check of his glasses… I asked him if he was otherwise medically fine… he replied “doctor I am very fine… I just have thodasa diabetes and thodasa heart blocks…baki I am perfectly fine!!!” I told him tht tht thodasa which he had was more then enough… pat came his reply “now I have lived a long life… if I keep on thinking about these problems I will increase my stress… doc says they cant operate on me without risk.. so I said jaude… kai hoil te baghu…” as a doc someone may feel wht a careless fellow… he has such major problems of health… but if u think about it wht he said made sense… he was already 71… had lived the major part of life in health… now if at all he undergoes tht surgery with due risk and smething happens…either he can die on table or live a bad quality life… of course if everythin goes fine then he may live much longer… but at a major risk… his decision of living with it, a very bold one was I feel the correct one….