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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: [Meta] Personal announcement Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 21:05:15 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 60 Message-ID: <v2mf9r$1jchq$1@dont-email.me> References: <v0ogoq$1ra8p$1@dont-email.me> <66396b10$0$3711205$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <v1ckf3$34ci0$1@dont-email.me> <663a4e47$8$1258337$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <v1e1jl$3eqks$1@dont-email.me> <87y18gih64.fsf@fatphil.org> <v1ojbe$27ilh$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 06:05:16 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9f76465c69f4dbbdf33f9e46f4d6c1e1"; logging-data="1684026"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+ucymL6t1dDgaqtkcmAEGOi9UHxtrvvWk=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:vQV7Vv3wkaRXWRXnwpjqUuhIvKA= In-Reply-To: <v1ojbe$27ilh$1@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 4066 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. > > > If all of your doctors, nurses said, okay, 1 milligram of THC is fine. Let's try to see if it just might spark an appetite! Sound, okay, in a sense?