On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 04:53:32PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> Try 'g'; it keeps both me and the mutt-users. Works nicely.
On some lists I'm on, people get royally PO'd about it. :-)
I just find it annoying. If I mention it (this case excepted, as it's
keeping me from using 'L'ist reply) I just point out that it's a waste
of time.
> | I hope there weren't any major typos in there...my eyes are going
> | 99% blurry and 1% useful (cancer #1 again...it lost the war, but
> | it did a lot of damage along the way).
>
> That sucks. Do they start the day working, and get tired?
Close. But no. In cancer #1, I had mets first to the lungs, then to
my brain, then back to my lungs again. The ones to my brain consisted
of three brain tumors: 1cm left-frontal lobe, 1cm right-frontal lobe,
2.5cm in my left occipital lobe---which is the part of the brain that
handles vision (the optic nerve just passes data to it). That's what
causes characters and words to get shifted around, reversed, etc.,
when I read any text, and also when I type. That strikes when it wants
to, whether I'm tired or not.
Btw, for those three tumors, I had three brain surgeries (one per tumor),
and whole-brain max-dose radiation therapy. I also had to take this
horrible steroid called Decadron. Prior to cancer #1, while working
in Special Ops Intel, I'd lost nearly all of the excess weight I'd
put on by eating stupid.... Decadron forced it all back on. It has
two common side effects: the first is massive weight gain, and the
second, NOT related to the first, is a massive, uncontrollable appetite
gain. You do NOT want that burger. You are NOT even hungry. You
absolutely, positively do NOT WANT ANYTHING TO EAT. But you eat it
anyways, not even knowing why. Once, I asked my radiation oncologist
a question as we were walking between my normal oncologosts' office
and his: "Is there any way, chemically or otherwise, that we can..."
(didn't get beyond that). He jumped in, saying, "I know what you're
asking, and no, there isn't. You're just going to have to deal with
it. And no, you can't stop taking the Decadron, as it's the only
thing keeping your brain from swelling up inside your head and killing
you." My response: "oh...ok." I was VERY glad when I was able to
stop taking that med....
During cancer #1, I had some VERY harsh chemo. Anyone familiar with
Cisplatin, particularly at high doses for 24 out of 25 hours per day
(24 on, 1 off in this case makes a "day"). My first chemo also had
Cisplatin in moderate doses. Cisplatin is one of the absolute worst
as far as doing damage to the body while destroying cancer cells, but
in some cases (like mine), there was just no option. This cancer had
already tried to kill me twice (I refused to let it).[1]
So that did all kinds of damage to my body (energy levels way down,
which limits both physical and mental activity---it's all the same
energy source, as well as what is commonly known as chemobrain).
One impact from the reduced energy levels is a hard limit on how
much time I can spend working on, for example, an Android app, or
even just browsing web sites looking for something (like stuff I
might want on my Mac next month when I get it). If I exceed that
limit, which these days, I often do, I spend, at BEST, the rest of
the day not able to do much, and my vision gets weaker along with
everything else (not sure how that works, but it does). If I KEEP
going, which, again, I often do these days, the recovery time can
be in days, up to as long as a week. AND let's not forget the
migraines and muscle aches. All of this can be caused by physical
and/or mental activity. Again, it's the same energy source...abuse
it, it'll abuse me. And while working on UltraCam Pro, I've abused
it a hell of a lot..... And during the recovery time, I can't even
think clearly enough to work on it. That's where I am right now.
In the end, though, all of that is just stuff [another word is supposed
to go there] that I have to deal with. The IMPORTANT point is, I'm
ALIVE, and the cancer is DEAD. Same for cancer #2. Now I write Android
apps (current is a camera app), hoping one will sell really well and get
me out from under social security disability, and meanwhile, I do tech
reviews for a major publisher when I can to get an income boost---that,
btw, is how I'm able to buy the Mac next month to replace my two
existing systems: my windoze laptop and my FreeBSD system, both of
which I've been nursing along for years (3 for the laptop, 8 for the
FreeBSD system). Neither has much life left, no matter how much I
try, so this payout next month is well-timed. :-)
And that's enough OT here (from me, at least) for a long time, I
think....
OB Mutt: I use fcc-hook frequently to store related groups of e-mail.
For example, everyone from [publisher], and all e-mails I send to
[publisher], go in ~/Mail/[publisher]. All e-mails to/from members of
our local homebrew club go into ~/Mail/HBU, and so on. :-)
Later,
--jim
[1] Sun Tzu wrote:
VI. 2: Thus the clever combatant imposes his will upon the enemy,
but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.
Words to remember when dealing with cancer....attitude IS CRITICAL
in that war.
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