Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@gmail.com> writes: > Dear David, > > 2017-05-15 18:42 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>: > >> l >> Hi folks, >> >> had a sort of apoplexy and will not be able to do anything while >> recovering. I am hospitalized at the moment, CRT and MRT did not show >> any specific anomalies but my right side is hampered and I cannot yet >> swallow or cough which is sort of inconvenient. >> > > terrible news. > > I wish you all the best and I hope you'll get better soon. > > >> >> Hope this gets to you. >> > > With one day delay.
I set the computer up to send the message on Monday and handed it over but wasn't successful at first attempt. Now out of the hospital for a few days, then I'll be into "Reha" (physical therapy) for some weeks. It was a stroke in the limbic region. Mouth and left side are no longer temperature sensitive (and there is a loss of pain in some regions resulting in a loss of protective reflexes), motor balance is off (I keel to the right when walking, left when crawling), smile is more skewed than before, right face half feels somewhat rigid and numb. Swallowing is business now or things will get stuck. Which is particularly inconvenient since coughing still doesn't work, becoming more of a wheeze. Walking is quite impaired, bicycling not yet back on the radar. Accordion works better than feared but the right hand cramps up when doing "weird" hand shapes typical for button accordion. I'll probably need to practice scales a lot. I need to relearn some habits to deal with the changes: when walking upstairs the first time in the hospital I glanced at a magazine in the right hand and just went for the stairs without bothering about the handrail. Wasn't thinking anything really. Quite embarrassing to explain to the people bearing witness to the result. The day before yesterday, I shaved again with a straight razor. With the reduced motor control, I expected the largest danger to be from cutting myself. That part actually went without a hitch: but trying to temperate the water for making shaving foam got me to notice the complete absence of heat sensitivity in the left hand. Fortunately, hospital bathroom water does not reach scalding temperatures. Retraining motor skills in order to regain some of the lost capacities is really exhausting, and there is a bit of competition for brain space after the small section shut down: as some things get a bit more back on track, others not obviously related take a hit (like the cramping-up business when playing accordion, also developing in some other departments). So one needs to fool around a lot in order to keep capacity loss in check and balanced with ongoing interests and priorities. >> Hopefully I can be back soonish. >> > > Please, take your time (_and_ some more) to recover, I don't want to > see you here before !! Even now before formal physical therapy I don't have that much time I can spend with the computer since an hour sitting down is an hour wasted for getting the new brain stem configuration rewired before it settles down again. And even if I considered computer work my top priority: I need to get enough physical capacity back in order to be able to integrate some exercise regimen into my daily life or the next comparable incident is bound to stop the computer work short as well. So in short: I need to ask you to hang in with me while I regain my footing here. I won't likely be able to contribute anything timely or of significance until the end of physical therapy (facilities for that are far enough away that I'll have to sleep in). After that, I should at least be available again for some guidance in programming matters (I managed to glance over the user list yesterday and noticed several threads which might have warranted some reply from me in order to move to the best track for a satisfactory solution dealing with the users' needs but have to postpone for now). There are some things I want to finish work on, but I think that the next point will be for me to branch for 2.20: I think that even with the current situation, it makes sense for me to try shaping the final efforts once I am back at the desk. I'll have to take score of everything that has been done without my attention in place (which does include some past work) and decide which parts would be more prudent to revert in the branch for the sake of a stable release. So now would be a good time for documentors and translators to step up their efforts. Thanks for all your efforts, and for your understanding, for your words and deeds of support, and for your contributions in making LilyPond prosper as a great piece of Free Software for articulating beautiful music. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
