what are you doing 5 years ago?
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
What ever happened to him[^]? He hardly ever posts anymore. Tell me he didn't go and get himself a life?
Yeah, his disappearance has been a mystery.
Regards, Nish
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Yeah, his disappearance has been a mystery.
Should've known the aliens would get to him first. :~
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Yeah, his disappearance has been a mystery.
Should've known the aliens would get to him first. :~
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Should've known the aliens would get to him first.
Yeah, if they could make sense of anyone on this planet, it'd be Colin.
Regards, Nish
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Sorry to hear about your dad. I lost mine in 1998. I kind of feel the same way in that I feel proud--like if he we're looking down I know he'd approve. It's funny how we want that even after our parents pass.
Its one of those weird things. In theory every day is an anniversary of that event, even every moment is, but its only because of our calendar and our fixation on the base 10 number system that today has any real significance. I'll be going out to dinner tonight with my lovely girl friend and my mother to mark the occasion My dad had more infulence on the person I am today than anyone else has or ever will and I have to laugh at myself occasionally because I see so much of him in myself.
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At that times I'm a freshman, use computer and visit the internet for the first time in my life.
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exactly 5 years ago today, I started my divorce. five years ago last week, I was dying without hope, with a wife overjoyed to play the widow, worrying only about getting the life insurance and thankful it would pay off her debt. Five years ago, I started living again, my fever broke, they upgraded my medical status, and there was a slim chance I would live. Five years ago this week, I started living again, or perhaps, I started living for the first time. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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exactly 5 years ago today, I started my divorce. five years ago last week, I was dying without hope, with a wife overjoyed to play the widow, worrying only about getting the life insurance and thankful it would pay off her debt. Five years ago, I started living again, my fever broke, they upgraded my medical status, and there was a slim chance I would live. Five years ago this week, I started living again, or perhaps, I started living for the first time. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
I started my divorce
Legally, or do you mean the mental decision?
Regards, Nish
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exactly 5 years ago today, I started my divorce. five years ago last week, I was dying without hope, with a wife overjoyed to play the widow, worrying only about getting the life insurance and thankful it would pay off her debt. Five years ago, I started living again, my fever broke, they upgraded my medical status, and there was a slim chance I would live. Five years ago this week, I started living again, or perhaps, I started living for the first time. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
I started living for the first time.
And cat-free I might add. ;P
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Camped out in a hospital 18x7x180 hoping to keep my kid alive. (Not quite yet but in one month and 5 days it will have been 5 years and she will be 5 years old.) We're going to have one righteous party to celebrate the life that is in that child. Funny this question would come up. My wife today just asked me what we should do for the big 05 for the tiny little rat. Then tonight the tiny little rat points at all the scars on her stomach and asks me what each one was for... What a ride... My gosh...:)
code-frog wrote:
Then tonight the tiny little rat points at all the scars on her stomach and asks me what each one was for...
for life... each one was for life. :) You did well, she did well, congrats!
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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At that times I'm a freshman, use computer and visit the internet for the first time in my life.
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Wow. I don't know if to congratulate you, bless you or what. I'm sure that had to be hell for your family. I'm really glad of the outcome. Is she doing well overall now or does she have long term problems? (If you don't mind me asking...)
Oh that's a bit of a tale. Almost a whale of a tale. The life threatening part of the journey lasted 3 years. We made it over that hump and so far things are good. She's in public school now though so that's a big unknown. As a family we all went and got shots for all matter of things yesterday for her sake. She has a feeding tube that we use to provide the critical care through. She can eat normally but her diet is very strict. She has a diabetic diet of sorts but way more strict and just as punishing if she doesn't adhere to it. Her condition is beyond complex in terms of long term recovery and right now we have way more questions than we do answers. We took a year off of trying to make progress on her condition because it's consuming work that requires tons of reading, research and time with specialists. We pick that torch back up on 12-23 with a doctor of hers we haven't seen for 2 years. He's a specialist in pediatric GI stuff. I doubt he'll have answers but we're hoping he'll have clues. We'll then assemble those clues and build a bigger picture as we move from specialist to specialist. Here is a story that took her up to about 18 months old. http://www.pediatricparents.com/Katie.htm[^] that's a site I someday hope to dedicate to helping parents like us but right now it's in bad shape. There used to be a lot more to it but a lot of life happened between when it was and where it is now. That only tells about 1/2 the story but it explains the what/how/why of things with her. Now we are trying to comprehend extensive damage to her small bowel in the nerves and the supporting systems of digestion. Long road, lots of theory.
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code-frog wrote:
Then tonight the tiny little rat points at all the scars on her stomach and asks me what each one was for...
for life... each one was for life. :) You did well, she did well, congrats!
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
It was a wild conversation for me. I tried to not get emotional but I also had to laugh out loud at some of the crazy parts. She loved all of it because at almost 5 it's still about a different person to her. She is more interested in the story itself and not so much that it involved her.
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Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
I started living for the first time.
And cat-free I might add. ;P
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
cat
only good one's a flat one ... but glad to have you around - Im probably going to be offensive here and call you a 'well adjusted' person who is a credit to CP 'g'
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
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only good one's a flat one ... but glad to have you around - Im probably going to be offensive here and call you a 'well adjusted' person who is a credit to CP 'g'
Garth J Lancaster wrote:
Im probably going to be offensive here and call you a 'well adjusted' person who is a credit to CP
Thanks, but I didn't realize "cat" was such a powerful word. ;P
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At that times I'm a freshman, use computer and visit the internet for the first time in my life.
========================================= 中国，昆明
Went back to college 5 years ago to wrap up my Bachelor's in Computer Sci :)
I'd like to help but I don't feel like Googling it for you.
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At that times I'm a freshman, use computer and visit the internet for the first time in my life.
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At that times I'm a freshman, use computer and visit the internet for the first time in my life.
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Trying to survive the Internet Bubble Burst the best I could. Without a job I didn't just want to sit at home doing nothing while I was waiting for jobs to become available so I started writing articles on CP and answering questions in the forums.
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At that times I'm a freshman, use computer and visit the internet for the first time in my life.
========================================= 中国，昆明
I was sleeping. There is a huge time difference!
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At that times I'm a freshman, use computer and visit the internet for the first time in my life.
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2001?! We were still in a daze, realizing that we survived Y2K, but didn't realize it was going to get a whole lot worse (I think "hype" was invented in 1999). Oh, yeah, and trying to figure out if we should go with .net or stick with MFC. :laugh::laugh::laugh:
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Oh that's a bit of a tale. Almost a whale of a tale. The life threatening part of the journey lasted 3 years. We made it over that hump and so far things are good. She's in public school now though so that's a big unknown. As a family we all went and got shots for all matter of things yesterday for her sake. She has a feeding tube that we use to provide the critical care through. She can eat normally but her diet is very strict. She has a diabetic diet of sorts but way more strict and just as punishing if she doesn't adhere to it. Her condition is beyond complex in terms of long term recovery and right now we have way more questions than we do answers. We took a year off of trying to make progress on her condition because it's consuming work that requires tons of reading, research and time with specialists. We pick that torch back up on 12-23 with a doctor of hers we haven't seen for 2 years. He's a specialist in pediatric GI stuff. I doubt he'll have answers but we're hoping he'll have clues. We'll then assemble those clues and build a bigger picture as we move from specialist to specialist. Here is a story that took her up to about 18 months old. http://www.pediatricparents.com/Katie.htm[^] that's a site I someday hope to dedicate to helping parents like us but right now it's in bad shape. There used to be a lot more to it but a lot of life happened between when it was and where it is now. That only tells about 1/2 the story but it explains the what/how/why of things with her. Now we are trying to comprehend extensive damage to her small bowel in the nerves and the supporting systems of digestion. Long road, lots of theory.
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code-frog wrote:
Here is a story that took her up to about 18 months old.
Man thats one moving story. My mother has a friend who is a pediatric surgon, those people really earn their money.
This lady is amazing. What's so weird is she was such a huge part of our lives and now we haven't seen her in over a year. So wild. Our very existence as a family pivoted around her and now I haven't seen her. I talk to her nurse but haven't seen her... Strange life...
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This lady is amazing. What's so weird is she was such a huge part of our lives and now we haven't seen her in over a year. So wild. Our very existence as a family pivoted around her and now I haven't seen her. I talk to her nurse but haven't seen her... Strange life...
code-frog wrote:
This lady is amazing. What's so weird is she was such a huge part of our lives and now we haven't seen her in over a year. So wild. Our very existence as a family pivoted around her and now I haven't seen her. I talk to her nurse but haven't seen her...
Mum's friend is also female and in her 60's. I've known her most of my life and have spoken with her at length about how she copes with the things she see's everyday. She says she just has to put the kids out of her mind once she's done all she can for them and focus on the next one. I cant imagine how rewarding and sometimes soul destroying that kind of work must be.
