I hold off doing major updates, until most of the bugs get ironed out. More often than not, there are no new features that I find useful, and usually more incompatibilities and performance degradation to deal with.
I had all four of my wisdom teeth removed when I was Michael’s age. It was a visit to the hospital under general anesthesia. Glad I had them all done at once, but little did I know how many root canals were in my future!
I read every day and I haven’t lost hope…..I never had any to begin with.