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On 5/11/2024 1:10 PM, Malcolm McLean wrote:
> On 11/05/2024 14:58, Phil Carmody wrote:
>> Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> 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.