Well the news is in....
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
I hope the surgery is a success and the recovery a time for many good things to happen. Sometimes we need that kind of space so maybe it's not all bad. Well done to your company and co-workers for getting the holiday donation sorted out. That's a really good scheme. I hardly ever use up my holiday and it would be great to be able to donate spare days to someone in need.
Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
Good luck man.
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
All these kind words are the reason I have stayed an active member of this community, this is a great community and I appreciate all the kind words.
"Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey." Bill Gates
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
Best of luck. Take care
Regards, Sylvester G sylvester_g_m@yahoo.com
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:
The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account
That was really nice of your colleagues. However, don't you get sick pay?
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:
so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid
That sound weird to me. Do you mean where you live workers don't get paid when they are sick? Where the hell is that place? :~
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Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:
so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid
That sound weird to me. Do you mean where you live workers don't get paid when they are sick? Where the hell is that place? :~
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Corinna John wrote:
Do you mean where you live workers don't get paid when they are sick?
That seems weird to me also. I don't like taking sick days, but I know that if I am sick and can't work I don't have the additional worry about how to pay my mortgage at the end of the month. I think that additional stress would make people worse not better.
Corinna John wrote:
Where the hell is that place?
According to his profile it is the United States.
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
Good luck and I hope you have a speedy recovery.
No, it's a man given right. Some things are cow given. Like milk. Milk doesn't kill, but is a much better calcium source than guns are. - Joergen Sigvardsson
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Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:
The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account
That was really nice of your colleagues. However, don't you get sick pay?
Upcoming events: * Glasgow: Mock Objects, SQL Server CLR Integration, Reporting Services, db4o, Dependency Injection with Spring ... * Reading: Developer Day 5 Ready to Give up - Your help will be much appreciated. My website
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
However, don't you get sick pay
Yeah, but this has been going on sice 09MAR and I have used up all but 2 days vacation and 4 hours sick time. I have missed a total of 7 weeks so far this month with this (not to mention this will be the 2nd surgery this year).
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
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Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:
so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid
That sound weird to me. Do you mean where you live workers don't get paid when they are sick? Where the hell is that place? :~
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Corinna John wrote:
Do you mean where you live workers don't get paid when they are sick
Well I have short term disability through work but that don't kick in until Ive been out 4 weeks or so (though they do make it retro), other than that I don't know of anyone who gets paid for not working, well except the government
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:
27 days of vacation time donated to my account
Awesome! Since my biggest problem is persuading IT to let me put a NAS box into one of their racks I feel like I've got it easy. Good luck :rose:
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Corinna John wrote:
Do you mean where you live workers don't get paid when they are sick
Well I have short term disability through work but that don't kick in until Ive been out 4 weeks or so (though they do make it retro), other than that I don't know of anyone who gets paid for not working, well except the government
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
that sucks. IIRC my short term disability kicks in immediately if I'm hospitalized, otoh it's only 66% of my normal salary.
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Yesterday the gauntlet fell, let me start by saying I have an Ileostomy from a genetic (very rare) that causes colon cancer so at the age of 19 they had to remove most of my digestive tract. Fast forward 20 years, yesterday it was confirmed that the condition is back, and on 02JUL07 they will once again (for the 4th or 5th time, I forget its been so many)opening me up and removing a small section of my small intestines and re sectioning my Ileostomy, and possibly moving it to the other side of my abdomen. If they have to move it then that will be the icing on the cake, Ill get to spend the next several years adjusting many life habits to account for the new location X|. What truly sucks about this is I will be in the hospital 3-5 days, then 4-7 weeks of recovery time....4-7 weeks away from my programming??!! I'll go nuts if I cant program for that long. Fortunately after about 2 weeks my doctor says he will *think* about allowing me to work some from home. The silver lining in all this is they took a collection at work and were able to get 27 days of vacation time donated to my account (where I work you can actually do that) so at least for the first 27 days I"ll get paid, then after that I'll have to convince my surgeon to let me work from home. So, hows everyone else's day going? :->
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
First of all best of luck, I just spent 3 weeks in hospital and it was bad enough, but this was in "isolation". Also had high-dose chemotherapy which one of the side-effects is lack of concentation so I was bored senseless because I couldn't keep my mind on anything. You mean to say you're not allowed to take a laptop or computer in if you're going to be there for so long? When I asked I was allowed to take my desktop plus the new 22" screen I got for it, but then again I did have my own room but on the whole it didn't take up that much room, maybe 30x20" maximum. Great co-workers though.
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Corinna John wrote:
Do you mean where you live workers don't get paid when they are sick
Well I have short term disability through work but that don't kick in until Ive been out 4 weeks or so (though they do make it retro), other than that I don't know of anyone who gets paid for not working, well except the government
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
It is not your fault that you cannot work, so why should you be punished? :confused: I can be sick for up to 5 weeks and still get my salary. After 5 weeks my insurance takes over. They pay less, but still enough to survive. I know a guy who could not work for several months. After 5 weeks he tried working for about one week, that started a new timespan so he got full salary again. Usually being sick is not a financial problem.
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It is not your fault that you cannot work, so why should you be punished? :confused: I can be sick for up to 5 weeks and still get my salary. After 5 weeks my insurance takes over. They pay less, but still enough to survive. I know a guy who could not work for several months. After 5 weeks he tried working for about one week, that started a new timespan so he got full salary again. Usually being sick is not a financial problem.
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Corinna John wrote:
It is not your fault that you cannot work, so why should you be punished? :confused:
Oh I completely agree and maybe I'm missing something, maybe I am eligible for pay while Im gone but I think Ill stick with the donated vacation time that way I get 100% of my salary
"Okay, I give up: which is NOT a real programming language????" Michael Bergman
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
"Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey." Bill Gates
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Corinna John wrote:
It is not your fault that you cannot work, so why should you be punished? :confused:
Oh I completely agree and maybe I'm missing something, maybe I am eligible for pay while Im gone but I think Ill stick with the donated vacation time that way I get 100% of my salary
"Okay, I give up: which is NOT a real programming language????" Michael Bergman
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
"Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey." Bill Gates
Vacation is vacation and hospital is hospital. Let me tell you one thing: When I'm on vacation and become ill, my lost vacation days get turned into sickness days. That means, I can take the vacation again when I'm healthy. That is not a special condition at my company - where I live, it is a law. It does not matter how many days you are gone because of some illness or accident, it does not touch your number of vacation days. In other words: being sick is bad enough, nobody should have additional disadvantages. You might find it strange that a state forces companies to pay employees for lying in hospital. Well, I find it strange to make ill people pay for medication while they don't have any income.
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