“80 decades” Wow!! I have been flying more than 45 years, but only 6 decades.
But seriously, I had cancer at 30 (bladder cancer). I reported it and was “benched for two weeks” until they got ALL the paperwork. Even got a call from my chief pilot asking why I had been out sick. I told him to call OKC and speed up the process. You would think cancer was going to kill me in the next few days. The tumor was removed, no more cancer!