Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Chris M. Thomasson" Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: [Meta] Personal announcement Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 13:47:15 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 61 Message-ID: References: <66396b10$0$3711205$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <663a4e47$8$1258337$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <87y18gih64.fsf@fatphil.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 22:47:17 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="72fee4d4a05aaa2dfcb40e9bf04b0631"; logging-data="2358004"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18MrM1X9CqPL2C0Yl41c/AHOk9F+S6+ssA=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:JPJe+n+sGF7X/rB6mRL/Mywt5TA= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4448 On 5/11/2024 1:10 PM, Malcolm McLean wrote: > On 11/05/2024 14:58, Phil Carmody wrote: >> Malcolm McLean writes: >>> On 07/05/2024 16:52, DFS wrote: >>>> On 5/7/2024 3:15 AM, Malcolm McLean wrote: >>>>> On 07/05/2024 00:43, DFS wrote: >>>>>> On 4/29/2024 12:10 PM, Malcolm McLean wrote: >>>>>>> Some of you will have noticec a rather erratic posting pattern >>>>>>> from me recently, with some unexplained absences whereas >>>>>>> previously I would post almost evey single day. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The reason is that in my life outside C programming I have been >>>>>>> diagnosed with terminal cancer, and the illness is now in a phase >>>>>>> where hospital stays and such absences are inevitable. However I >>>>>>> expect to post for a few more months, and then, of course, >>>>>>> probably the last post will be made without me being aware that >>>>>>> this is to be the last. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> And I've just had to say that I can no longer write software for >>>>>>> money. Whether I can write software without the pressures of it >>>>>>> being a formal job or not, I don't know. And whilst C has aways >>>>>>> been a very important of my adult life, for obvius reasons my >>>>>>> religious interests are now taking priority. >>>>>> >>>>>> I don't post here much, but you helped me out a few times in the >>>>>> past. >>>>>> >>>>>> Sorry to hear about your diagnosis. >>>>>> >>>>>> What kind of cancer? >>>>>> >>>>> It started off as a bowel / rectal cancer, but it has metastatised. >>>> >>>> It looks like your 5-year survival rate is as high as 70% (plus >>>> extra points for good behavior).  So you have some code left in you! >>>> >>> Unfortunately that is very unlikely to be the case for my specific >>> situation. But the oncologist was a bit vague on the prognoisis. But I >>> can't as easily type now, for example. It might be more months than I >>> expect, however. >> >> Wishing you all the best, Malcolm, and as a bit of a beer nerd I hope >> you at least get your taste for that back, even if it's a low alcohol >> variety. >> > Just saw the GP yesterday. I gave up alcohol for Lent, was too ill to > think of drinking on Easter Sunday, then was in hospital from Easter > Monday, and patients are not encouraged to drink. So that was a long > period of not drinking. And on discharge I felt unable to face it. But > the public house social mix doesn't really work when you are on soft > drinks. And the GP said that I should not be feeling this way, and I'm > getting some anti-nausea tablets. So maybe. And alcohol is a source of > very digestible calories. Right. Some of the beer out there is basically liquid bread anyway... Can you keep any solid food down? Do you feel a sense of "hyper nausea"? As if its hard to actually swallow food? Get a rather quick gag reflex? You can start with a teaspoon of beer. See how it goes down. Also, if you are starting to get really messed up and have no appetite at all... Well, you can try a micro dose of some marijuana. See if it helps at all, or makes things worse? I just don't know.