I do not think there is such a thing as the perfect decision, there is only the now in which a choice is made. Sometimes those choices boil down to a gut instinct, do I stay or do I go.
Most of the big choices decisions I have made in life are from the gut, from a feeling of this is the right choice. I then live with the choice I made. We chose to move after I retired, we chose to move again while retired. Two move in three years. Not a good way to start a retired life.
Many would view such quick moves, involving buying and selling of the house in less than three years, as fool hardy, especially being retired now. It worked for us. It was not an impossible thing to do, though many would see it as such.
With the move I was able to learn I had skin cancer, and then lung cancer, and was able to get both of them taken care of. Where I was living, since we had only just moved there it was a 6 month wait to establish a first appointment with a doctor to re-start our health care. Choosing a health care doctor for normal family care is not a quick process. Even the clinics were not taking new patients in the area we moved to.
It is not that they won't improve, but at any given moment conditions are
perfect for something, even though it might not be what we might want that something to be.
We moved, then learned of my health issues since we moved back to the area we moved away from.
!ENGAGE 25 Very nice food for thought.
If there is a perfect decision that can be made - it is made by luck.
I think intuition gets better with experience :)
It is good that you got treated - but the US system is a mess....
Is it better to know and treat or not know and go about your day? I know people who have chosen both sides or when they found out, went without the treatment by choice. There is no perfect decision.
Treatment really is a personal choice. When it comes to skin cancer, no treatment could lead to disfigurement, treatment can also lead to disfigurement. For me it was either a open ugly wound look, or a loss of halve an eyebrow, and hair where there never was before. (very fine but annoys my eye and needs trimming a lot).
I think it is better to know, one should never be afraid of knowledge even if that knowledge can cause fear.